Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2012

I posted 5 Things Every Manager Should Know About Financial Forecasts recently on the Industry Word blog on the SBA (Small Business Administration) community site. Maybe these five points, taken from that earlier post, will help: 1. Forecasts are for business, not truth, or beauty. 2. Forecasts don’t take an MBA, CPA, or PhD.

Forecast 63

Forecast SBA Aggregator CPA 63

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Companies that reliably fail to make their forecasted numbers are exceptionally prone to “management retooling.&# Similarly, it’s easy to generate large aggregate numbers by simply falling back to non-disruptive or non-sustainable tactics (see Validated learning about customers for one example).

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Three, I’m a book keeper, accountant or CPA and other. Three, I’m a bookkeeper, accountant or CPA or other. What I did is I learned the art of a pro forma and the value of a pro forma which basically is a forecast. I’ll say that one more time. This is number one. What best describes you?

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95