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Strategies to Improve Cash Flow Management for Startups

The Startup Magazine

Image source Startups often face unpredictable revenue streams and mounting operational costs, making cash flow management particularly challenging. Setting aside a percentage of monthly revenue creates a financial buffer that can cover urgent expenses when needed. This is where an emergency reserve fund comes into play.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million.

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How To Survive The Loss Of A Main Customer

YoungUpstarts

When it occurs, the consequences can be swift and devastating, wreaking potential havoc on a once steady stream of revenue. Failure to focus on customer retention, for example, is a surefire way to brush aside the frustrations of existing customers. In many cases, this scenario is inevitable and difficult to prevent.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

You can read various articles out there which will give you the cursory facts about Airbnb like their overall revenue or profitability or how their business has faired here in 2020 in the COVID environment. But ops & customer support is another 17-20% of revenue and arguably you couldn’t run the business if you took that away.

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Savvy Entrepreneurs Use Data Mining To Look Forward

Startup Professionals Musings

Whether you are contemplating an investment in your favorite startup, or a little-known stock on a public exchange, there is “big data” out there that can’t possibly be evaluated by you without predictive analytics. Customer retention with churn modeling. Without predictive targeting, a retention campaign may cost more than it gains.

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10 Startup Prospects That Multiply If You Look Ahead

Startup Professionals Musings

Whether you are contemplating an investment in your favorite startup, or a little-known stock on a public exchange, there is “big data” out there that can’t possibly be evaluated by you without predictive analytics. Customer retention with churn modeling. Without predictive targeting, a retention campaign may cost more than it gains.

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Predictive Analytics is a Goldmine for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Whether you are contemplating an investment in your favorite startup, or a little-known stock on a public exchange, there is “big data” out there that can’t possibly be evaluated by you without predictive analytics. Customer retention with churn modeling. Without predictive targeting, a retention campaign may cost more than it gains.

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