View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Analytics vs. Finance?—?what’s Finance is about reporting on historical performance and future planning through the lens of financial metrics. This is a bit of an oversimplification as there are many sub-disciplines within finance?—?accounting/controller, what’s the difference (and what do you need)?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML, also compiled a database of laws and regulations around cannabis in each state. Target market: Who is your ideal buyer? Be specific. Mention your funding needs.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 2, 2019

Not only are women-owned businesses increasing at two and a half times the rate of all US businesses combined, but both the revenue growth and employment growth of women-owned businesses have also outpaced the national averages for all businesses. Information, Networking, and Other Resources for Women Business Owners.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

I wrote recently about Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? Since then, I’ve talked with a number of other firms, and greatly expanded my database: Who are the major Revenue-Based (RBI) Investing VCs? Revenue-based investing VC. Venture debt.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

The horseless carriage is how early people saw the automobile because all they knew was horse-drawn carriages and today, the financial industry sees the disruptions as “financial” instead of realizing a primitive shift to transactional that goes deeper than the existing concept of finance.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 24, 2011

You'll need to work with your Finance team. Now do this: Total revenue divided by number of web_quotes. Make sure they are identified uniquely in your company database, and then use their purchase behavior (as recorded in the database) to go back and enter a goal value into your web analytics tool. Micro-conversions!

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Up and Running

MAY 30, 2022

It also helps with building up a “lessons learned” knowledge database to avoid costly mistakes in the future. Determines financial needs and revenue models. A vital part of starting a business is understanding what your expenses will be and how you will generate revenue to cover those expenses.

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Austin Startup

JULY 2, 2021

This saves our operations and finance teams hours of manual work each week. The self-service Chargify Business Intelligence analytics suite enables users to create custom dashboards with real-time billing and revenue management data. Learn more about Chargify at www.chargify.com.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

the original products can’t generate revenue, so when these OS projects occassionally blow up into phenomenons like Drupal and WordPress have over the past few years, it’s gratifying but also quite frustrating to watch others derive so much value from your baby while you toil away to lead its growth with no financial return.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The findings come from the initial results of a survey of 7,502 small privately-held businesses with revenues of less than US$5 million dollars by the Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project with the cooperation of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2015

For example, a valuation is usually needed for tax purposes when a) the company issues stock options for the first time; b) the company has a “material change” in their business such as a new financing; or c) it’s been more than 12 months since the last valuation. Professionalisms business finance business valuation Janet Chase'

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2016

Step 5: Getting financed. For Hollywood real estate agent, Gwen Banta , getting the finances to take the job seriously had a lot to do with other revenue streams to begin with, including her work as an actress and writer. Real estate agent Jamal Asskoumi, took the finances for his business from personal savings. “If

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2017

For example, look closely at their revenue and stability. Some risk platforms, such as that offered by Global Database , will even provide a suggested limit based on complex algorithms. Global Database – The Trusted Credit Risk Platform. This might include: Can they afford your product/service? Setting credit limits.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Topics are divided into IT, marketing, sales, finance, customer service, operations and human resources sections, which makes it easy to search for the latest discussions on your interest area. The site is run by Mercy Corps , which intends to help “small businesses grow faster, generate more revenue, and employ more people.&#

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is the foundational layer of cloud computing, and includes raw storage, compute, backup, disaster recovery, databases, and security. Get instrument rated, and trust the 6Cs of Cloud Finance (more.) Yahoo Finance. Here is the new version of the 10 Laws of Cloud Computing and SaaS: Less is more!

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

we had no revenue. You may happen to emphasize the right points that pique an investor’s interest, but you shouldn’t leave your financing up to chance. Second, understand the broader financing climate. As a result, we knew that our pitch would need to steer into investors’ biggest concern: the lack of revenue.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Venture Financing. Company generates revenue via premium accounts, targeted ads and transaction commission. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008. Watch the show! students. -Is

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Transformify

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Becoming a financial business analyst requires at least a bachelor’s degree in finance. Some of your key duties as a financial business analyst would include recommending investment opportunities, generating revenue to facilitate trades, maximizing the cost of operations and preparing financial reports.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

That means that less than 1% of the entrepreneurs who apply succeed in getting financed. I have a fundamental observation to make here that seems to be lost in the noisy universe of entrepreneurs' obsession with fund-raising: Most companies should not raise external financing. A sustainable business = (customer + revenue + profits).

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

If we are in a bubble, that is a bit of an odd commentary for a company that grew revenues 83% year-over-year and grew earnings 93% year-over-year. LinkedIn is already quickly becoming the world’s recruiting database, and it seems quite logical that there will be only one (who wants to maintain their resume in more than one place?).

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

venture capital deals, a spike in mega-financings where it’s common to see not only $100M private rounds, but companies that raise two or three types of financings like this in the same calendar year! 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important. Revenue acceleration is, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. Comp sci in the 80s was terrible. It was all technical.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. For more rigorous, bottoms-up sizing exercises I suggest tools such as Statista and the United States Census Bureau (also their North American Industry Classification System database) to help identify more specific data.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

“ Zweena is seeking first-round financing that will help the company grow and add the right people. We have revenue and a sound business model – we have the basic foundation for solid growth. But the going is not easy. The key challenges facing Zweena, though, is money and people. ”

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

So, the definition of a lead database has expanded from being Name, Address, Email ID, Phone No, etc., I can say this with confidence based on my first hand experience mentoring a number of serious and promising Indian product entrepreneurs in the 1M/1M program, one of which, Freshdesk, has just raised financing from Accel Partners.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Similarly, in recent high profile private financing rounds for private technology companies with valuations over $1B, the valuation multiples were at or below corresponding multiples for publicly traded companies such as Google. For example, the 1998 IPO class had average revenue of $120 million (and net losses of $65 million to boot).

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2014

You probably know everything there is to know about your community or cause, but making decisions about the right approach to handling nonprofit finances can be a challenge. Obviously, nonprofits have to look at financing differently than a for-profit venture would. Excellent options for funding sources. Focus on Capacity Building.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 15, 2012

On the practical/operational side, good succession planning should be designed to ensure that everything you are responsible for doing at your company will continue to get done – from paying the bills to maintaining the database and on down to taking out the trash.

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Transformify

MAY 28, 2018

A big organization will survive and compensate the lost productivity, low quality and lost customers resulting from ‘’bad hires’’ The negative impact on revenue and EBITDA will be there but it will not matter as much as for a startup or a small organization. 35% have experience with McKinsey, AT Kerney, etc.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2022

Their location, economy, and finances can influence how consumers engage with your business. In this episode, we talk about how we can leverage personalized data to improve the customer experience and increase revenue for your business. This is you integrate with your email database. With technology. John Jantsch (21:49): Yeah.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

As these kinds of startups serve both businesses and consumers, startups can tap into dual revenue streams , propelling them forward at an accelerated pace. dv01 dv01 leads the charge in structured finance, bridging the gap between lenders and capital markets. is setting the course for the future of asynchronous telehealth.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

My strength was not in finance, so one of the first things I did was hire someone to handle the books and keep me on a solid financial path, so I could focus on running my business. I started Patch Homes last year as I saw many homeowners who had valuable homes, but had little to no savings or money for their day to day finances.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

While some people want to own a car, most people just want reliable, convenient transportation whenever they need it, preferably without the hassles of maintenance and financing. Robbie Kellman Baxter is the author of “The Membership Economy: Find Your Superusers, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue.”

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

While some people want to own a car, most people just want reliable, convenient transportation whenever they need it, preferably without the hassles of maintenance and financing. Robbie Kellman Baxter is the author of “The Membership Economy: Find Your Superusers, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue.”

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

It might seem logical that you’ll also measure the second most overused web metric: Average Revenue per Email Sent = total revenue / # of emails sent. Not revenue. Finally for those of you measuring revenue, and think of yourselves as Analysis Ninjas, you are measuring this delightful metric (don’t let me down!):

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Ben's Blog

JULY 13, 2010

When the computing architecture moved from Mainframe to Client/Server, hierarchical databases didn’t move with it. Due to radically cheaper computing cycles and storage, the database market moved to the much more easily programmable and more resource intensive relational database model.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Expedia grew to account for roughly one third of the company’s revenues. Think about that.

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