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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok. but that’s our firm’s money on your balance sheet. This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%.

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What Is a Balance Sheet?

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If you’re in the process of starting a business or writing a business plan document, you’ll have heard the phrase “balance sheet” mentioned, or maybe you’ve seen one in a sample business plan. Now that we’ve had a general overview of the balance sheet, let’s take a deeper look at the information a balance sheet should include.

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Why large companies acquire small companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

In terms of acquisition, they ask more specifically: “How can we trade balance sheet assets (cash, equity) in exchange for executing our strategy better?”. Even if this costs more than 2 years of in-house assembly, it’s still worth it, due to accelerating revenue growth due to up-sales and market-differentiation.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.

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How to Raise Startup Funding from Unlikely Angel Investors

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I’m a mom, a full-time sales manager, and recruiter. Angels invest in one out of every forty deals they review (2.5%) versus the one out of 400 by VC’s (0.25%). Entrepreneurs need to find a way to get traction (sales) without funding. Wait, you didn’t want to be a sales person? I’m not your average angel.

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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

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You don’t need to buy expensive software – there are free open source solutions for nearly everything. You don’t have to hire as many sales people because much can be sold online. I think this segment has expanded due to structural changes discussed earlier but it still has a natural limit.

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The Key Elements of the Financial Plan

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Balance sheet. Sales forecast. A typical profit and loss statement should include: your revenue (also called sales), followed by. your “cost of sale” or “cost of goods sold” (COGS)—keep in mind, some types of companies, such as a services firm, may not have COGS. Balance sheet . Cash flow statement.