Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Financial forecast and metrics. These investors want to know that you are thinking about a liquidity event – when and how they will get their money out, with ROI. The most credible sizing approach is to do your financial model first with the volume, cost, and pricing parameters you want. See where your cashflow bottoms out.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 19, 2013

In a liquidation, would you have profited at the expense of your investors by taking high salary or draws before breakeven? Liquidity event: Name at least five companies that might be ready to acquire the enterprise if successful. Order all 3 Berkonomics books for $49.95,a a 33% discount. www.berkus.com.

Pre-Money Valuation 105

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidity Event Cofounder Valuation 105

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Financial forecast and metrics. These investors want to know that you are thinking about a liquidity event – when and how they will get their money out, with ROI. The most credible sizing approach is to do your financial model first with the volume, cost, and pricing parameters you want. See where your cashflow bottoms out.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

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. This will have a significant impact on the amount business owners could realize on the sale or other liquidity event for the company.

Liquidity Event 139

Liquidity Event Equity Finance Stock Options 139

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Financial forecast and metrics. These investors want to know that you are thinking about a liquidity event – when and how they will get their money out, with ROI. The most credible sizing approach is to do your financial model first with the volume, cost, and pricing parameters you want. See where your cashflow bottoms out.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Forecasting. Strategies for getting the most in a liquidity event. GROWING YOUR BUSINESS. When to hire and spend. Time allocation. Where to find customers that buy. How to focus your employees on growth. New forms of metrics for your business. Creating a powerful dashboard. Celebrating growth, and MUCH more. CASHING OUT!

Advisory Board 67

Advisory Board Small Business Investment Bankers Liquidity Event 67

Berkonomics

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lessons to learn from the best. There are great lessons to learn from Cisco and other companies that have grown wonderfully by acquisition, understanding the need to maintain elements of the acquired company’s culture, while offering the employees retained new and attractive reasons to stay and build the combined enterprise.

Acquisition 48

Acquisition Due Diligence Forecast Employee 48

Berkonomics

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lessons to learn from the best. There are great lessons to learn from Cisco and other companies that have grown wonderfully by acquisition, understanding the need to maintain elements of the acquired company’s culture, while offering the employees retained new and attractive reasons to stay and build the combined enterprise.

Acquisition 48

Acquisition Due Diligence Forecast Employee 48

Berkonomics

AUGUST 13, 2015

You merely need to forecast the likelihood over the next few years they will have the financial resources to be the high bidder for your venture. But remember that each potential acquirer should be evaluated in terms of both their ability and their willingness to make an acceptable offer for your company.

Ohio 48

Ohio Acquisition Forecast Sales 48

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

A financial buyer will analyze your numbers, past and forecast, to the n’th degree, and calculate the price based upon the result, after carefully comparing your numbers with those of others in the same and similar industries. This is one of my favorite insights, since I lived this one in a positive exit from my computer business.

Intellectual Property 88

Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Acquisition Forecast 88