This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 2, 2010

Historically, that was one where the business was clear and there was some initial revenue, even if slight. Drive one key metric. When you go straight to a Series A round, you forget that your next round needs to be a Series B round. That doesn’t seem like a good reason to change your financing and product strategy over. Is it users?

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Cap Table Seed Stage .Net Venture Capital 106

OnlyOnce

MAY 26, 2022

Do you spend a lot of your time dealing with finance-related issues like fundraising, debt, investors, or cap table questions? Are you on the hot seat during board meetings on finance-related questions, metrics, runway, cash burn, or other issues? Trust your gut.

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Cap Table Forecast Finance Metrics 62

Hippoland

OCTOBER 18, 2018

So you are taking a gamble that with more cash, you can get to series B metrics. It’s just really hard to keep growing 30% MoM with large revenue numbers. And on the revenue side, you get your money upfront when people buy tickets or sponsors send you money ahead of the event. And you can often pay vendors on a net 30 basis.

Bootstrapping 48

Bootstrapping Cap Table Salary .Net 48

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

When you raise larger rounds there is more “due diligence,” which includes: calling customers, looking at financial metrics, doing cohort analysis (looking for trends like changes in churn rates), evaluating competitor positioning and understanding more of the competency of your executive team. How Complicated is Your Cap Table?

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Burn Rate Cap Table Valuation Software Review 150

Ben's Blog

APRIL 1, 2011

Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared to keeping my mind in check. I remember when I first became CEO, an investor asked me to send him the “cap table.” Revenue at Ning is soaring and team morale is high.

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Management Cap Table Balance Sheet Bankruptcy 78

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

A detailed financial model that shows your anticipated revenue, costs and profits (Income Statement) as well as your balance sheet and cashflow statements. Kai taught me that the key metric to whether a sales process is going well is “engagement.” So how does this work in practice? I mean, in a real fund-raising process? No problem.

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Cap Table Due Diligence Forecast Churn Rate 336

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

A complete collapse of revenue that simultaneously affects your employees and your customers, your partners, your investors, everyone all at once and all the news is bad. People, not just metrics. And what I mean by that is, almost every metric, every graph, every number, is a person. Eric Ries : Metrics are people too.

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Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

A high performing, high-growth SAAS company that may have been worth 10 or more times revenue was suddenly worth 4-7 times revenue. Anything that hints of a down round brings questions about the success metrics that have already been “booked.” You can no longer simply look at the cap table and estimate your return.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

WeWork needed billions in a cap table crushing lifeline and Knotel went bankrupt as well. There’s a metric f**k ton of empty commercial real estate out there—yet landlords continue to try to squeeze existing tenants for every last dime. I don’t think that’s happening this time.

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Cofounder Venture Capital Community PR 131