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5 “What-Ifs” To Include In A Startup Financial Model

Startup Professionals Musings

The manual calculations to translate market assumptions into costs, volumes, expenses and net return are massive. Most entrepreneurs realize that doubling their revenue each year puts them in a premium category with investors, so that may be your first target. What if your customer acquisition cost assumptions have to change?

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5 Startup Financial Questions Every Investor Will Ask

Startup Professionals Musings

The manual calculations to translate market assumptions into costs, volumes, expenses and net return are massive. Most entrepreneurs realize that doubling their revenue each year puts them in a premium category with investors, so that may be your first target. What if your customer acquisition cost assumptions have to change?

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

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” I mention journalists here because they perpetuate the myth that focusing on profits is ALWAYS the right answer and then I hear many entrepreneurs (and certainly many “normals”) repeating the same mantra. The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you don’t, somebody else WILL!”

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Add Real Value To Your Startup With A Financial Model

Startup Professionals Musings

The way to start is with a sample financial model, freely available from many sources on the Internet, such as this one from Entrepreneur. The manual calculations to translate market assumptions into costs, volumes, expenses and net return are massive. What if your customer acquisition cost assumptions have to change?

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Should Startups Care About Profitability?

Both Sides of the Table

The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 senior sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business 6 months. I often ask entrepreneurs to consider, “What’s your objective?

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

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Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Andrew Frame, a 30-something entrepreneur who founded Internet-telephone company Ooma, bought a contemporary four bedroom in Bel Air for $5.5 WSJs Lauren Schuker Blum shows us around. More Mansion Videos.