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7 Ways to Improve the Financial Management of Your Business

The Startup Magazine

Business owners must deeply understand their company’s financial health, track their expenses and revenues, and adjust accordingly. As a result, being unaware of regular expenses can lead to overspending, cash flow problems, and even bankruptcy. It could be anything from increasing your revenue to reducing your expenses.

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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. Flexible VC: Revenue -based. Of the Inc.

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How to Pitch, Plan, and Track Your Business with LivePlan [VIDEO]

Up and Running

I am here to talk about LivePlan and give you some big picture information on business planning, forecasting, how to really kick your business off in the best possible way. What is revenue going to look like? Budgeting and forecasting, it’s not rocket science. I want to have enough revenue to hire a manager.

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No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.

Steve Blank

But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. Seven years after it was founded their satellites and ground stations were in place. It was a technical tour de force.

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The Top 5 Signs It’s Time to Consider Outside Business Funding

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Do your homework by doing a revenue forecast. Mull it over carefully to avoid getting deep into debt, or worse, closing shop altogether due to bankruptcy. In this case, doing a revenue forecast will help you weigh your options. Hit your books and see how your loan would impact your entire business bottom line.

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SaaS CRO: What You’re Not Testing (But Should)

ConversionXL

The Pareto Principle states that you get 80% of your revenue from 20% of your customers. Metric examples: Monthly recurring revenue (MRR); Average revenue per account (ARPA); Engagement; Customer lifetime value (LTV); Upsell/cross-sell conversion rates. Do you include revenue sharing with other parties? Reactivation.

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Creating Competitive Advantage by Embracing Contingent Workforce

Transformify

While technology-driven businesses empowering remote work thrive, most family-owned restaurants, caffees, bakeries and convenience stores face bankruptcy. The never-ending cycle of lockdowns and reopenings makes it impossible to forecast revenue streams and retain full-time employees.