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SayAhh’s Revenue Projections

Feld Thoughts

While Jane was building SayAhh’s revenue projections , Dick focused his attention on building the expense side of the projections. Before building his projections, Dick needs to make three main decisions: Should he build a simple cash forecast or a set of projected financial statements? How should he account for unforeseen expenses?

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A step-by-step guide to HR outsourcing

The Startup Magazine

Payroll management entails several steps, including: Calculating allowances (such as rent and travel expenses) and salary components (variable and net pay). An HR manager’s starting salary in the United States is roughly $90,000 plus benefits. However, when your team grows, managing payroll becomes increasingly difficult.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised from angels.

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Use agile budgeting to manage your cash

David Teten

I encourage entrepreneurs to correct course with a re-forecast early and often. The organization replaced the budget with a quarterly forecasting and planning process.… due to inflation, salary increases) to maintain margin in an environment of downward pressure on prices. Managers look at numbers at a higher level than before.

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Startup Tax Planning for Better Cash Flow Management

Up and Running

But accurately forecasting your tax obligations may seem difficult, particularly when you’re busy running a company. By incorporating tax forecasting into your cash flow management strategy, you can stop the cycle and ensure funds are flowing as you’re expecting. Not only that, tax laws change from year to year.

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10 Metrics To Drive Your Annual Business Review

Startup Professionals Musings

For starters, here is my selection of some key metrics that every six-sigma joint like GE tracks without thinking, but that too many small businesses haven’t yet formalized: Sales revenue. For example, sales productivity is simply actual revenue divided by the number of sales people. Size of gross margin. Overhead costs.

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The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup

Steve Blank

And how much are variable expenses (salaries, consultants, commission, travel, AWS/Azure charges, supplies, etc.?). Next, take a look at your actual revenue each month – not forecast, but real revenue coming in each month. Subtract your monthly gross burn rate from your monthly revenue to get your net burn rate.

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