Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors.   In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections.   First , dividends. Dividends come in two basic flavors – cumulative and non-cumulative.

Term Sheet 68

Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Retained Earnings: Earnings (or losses) that have been reinvested into the company, not paid out as dividends to the owners. Earnings are the proverbial “bottom line”: sales less costs of sales and expenses. This terminology is used when you are reporting actual values, not creating a financial forecast for the future.

Balance Sheet 115

Balance Sheet Equity .Net Business Plan 115

Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2014

First add up incoming cash from operations : cash received from the sale of goods, services, receivables from customers, cash interest and dividends. Next add up outgoing cash from financing activities : cash paid toward debt, cash paid to buy back shares, dividend payments, etc. How often should I forecast my cash flow?

Forecast 135

Forecast .Net Dividend Finance 135

Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

What you need to consider is whether or not your business has managed to recover from the blow of the pandemic, or is it forecasted to do so? Cuts to Dividends. When your company struggles, dividend payments are usually the first things to reduce or go completely. Consider the changes you have made to dividends.

Bankruptcy 40

Bankruptcy Dividend Forecast Cost 40

Up and Running

MARCH 28, 2017

Don’t let the frustration get to you—the time spent on this now will pay back dividends later on. If it cost $20 per month, do you think you might be willing to give it a try? A good next step is to do the first pass at a financial forecast. Trust me, you can do this exercise for any business. Create a value statement.

Demand 60

Demand Customer Product Email 60

The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

This process included several rounds of financial forecasting to understand the cost of achieving where we wanted the business and brand to be, and whether we could pay for that cost ourselves. Investors might ask for 20 to 30 percent of your company, and perhaps even an 8 to 10 percent dividend on top of that.

Liquidity Event 139

Liquidity Event Equity Finance Stock Options 139

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Sort of amortizing the costs of their sales reps over more products. The price points are not as high as your beautiful Excel spreadsheet had forecasted when you raised your seed capital. So Should I Avoid Channels at all Costs When I’m a Startup? That’s going to cost you margin. If they have $1.2

Channel 293

Channel Startup Sales Partner 293

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

We can't make a 5-year plan or a 10-year forecast right now, but we know there are investments we can make today that will set ourselves up for success in the future. So, companies are afraid, they start cutting costs, they start squeezing their own vendors to save money.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

Up and Running

JULY 8, 2015

The classic business plan on a napkin is about selling something for a lot more than it costs you to build it. It starts with sales at the top, then shows direct costs (also called unit costs, and costs of goods sold, or COGS) below that. It subtracts the direct costs from the sales to show gross margin.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet Dividend Cost Sales 60

Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2014

How you get that money out of the corp, where you have to give to yourself either as owner wages, or you have to give to yourself as dividend income. That’s a little more complicated, because there can be dividends, interest or capital gains, and there’s different tax rates for those. This would be dividend.

.Net 85

.Net Capital Gains Distribution Puerto Rico 85