Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

But “on capital employed” encourages companies to push more off balance sheet and thus into offshore & outsourced situations. He spoke about ROCE (return on capital employed). The numerator (return) encourages more sales, which is fine.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. So it’s unsurprising that typical “A rounds&# of venture capital were $5-10 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

Just checked their balance sheet. They have $339 million in cash on their balance sheet. ” Getting a term sheet on the table is the second most sure way to get a potential acquirer to move faster. And using the term sheet to get to a “yes” is a huge first step. Uh… yeah.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If an investor isn’t engaging then they’re not suddenly going to get a term sheet. In terms of stack ranking I recommend you force yourself to have no more than 8–10 “A’s,” 8–10 “B’s” and the balance 20–24 should be “C’s.” You can short-hand this as “engagement.” This is the exception, rather than the rule.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Ensure the balance sheet is in good condition, and the cashflow and cash reserves can support the business closing for an unknown period of time—without the assistance of government subsidies and laying off staff. Juggle fewer balls. Remove the “fat” from all aspects of my business. Ensure that your cash position is not skinny.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

They’re balancing many clients. On balance I usually prefer to recruit people from my network both in terms of saving costs as well as hiring people I know & trust. Lawyers : So you got your big term sheet signed and you’re now in the drafting. Small compromises are nothing to them. It’s progress.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Know your business inside and out: the P&L, balance sheet — all of it. A hard truth is: No one ever taps you on your shoulder and says, ‘You are a big company now, act like it,’ — so why not start now? Pay attention to details when you set up your business infrastructure.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Six firms had expressed strong interest, two had strong champions already trying to test price and round size and one had made it clear they were planning to submit a term sheet the following week. We had grown into a more reasonable burn rate so raising capital meant we would have many years of cash on the balance sheet.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

This is the time in the startup cycle when big balance sheets become strategic advantages. First, companies with bigger balance sheets can sustain higher monthly burn rates, which fuels growth. It’s also the reason changing strategies can be expensive. in monthly net burn [1]. Why does this reinforcing effect exist?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

To build a thriving company, successful business leaders know they need to balance the needs of employees, customers and shareholders. It will be some time until this type of metric will appear on a balance sheet, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pay attention to these measures. Register today.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 20, 2022

Welcome to the complete cheat sheet on the different types of influencers and which is best for your specific campaign. Campaigns best for macro influencers: These are the content creators who strike a delicate balance between social media fame and being an expert in their market. But that is easier said than done. . Let’s dive in!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

So if your fund raising isn’t moving consider lowering price to shore up your balance sheet and reduce risk. But I would point out that raising money is an existential event and I think in the coming 12-18 months you may see loss ratios (companies going out of business or selling in fire sales) go up.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2015

These are the pools of money that never had prohibitions around investing in military equipment, but who have recently made a push to clean guns and fossil fuels from some of their balance sheets. The institutional private equity funds in the US that they invest in are barred from making investments in cannabis.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

A smarter balance between speed, flexibility and oversight is to allow the CVC to make routine investments, subjecting only especially large follow-on investments for approval by senior management. Plus, when a fund has a reputation for moving slowly, the hot deals pass them by.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Square Financial Services will continue to sell loans to third-party investors and limit balance sheet exposure. The company said it does not expect the bank to have a material impact on its consolidated balance sheet, total net revenue, gross profit, or adjusted EBITDA in 2021.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking. The majority of the funds pay back our early investors who believed in us enough to trust us with their money.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2018

I told him, “I know we don’t yet have a term sheet so you feel you need to listen to everybody’s request. But imagine you were expecting two term sheets imminently. There is a delicate balance between confident and arrogant and of course the former is what you want. How would you act then?

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

With the economic downturn and associated uncertainty, startup founders at every stage have been rushing to shore up their balance sheets and extend runways. VCs and university endowments should partner to make venture more diverse. This can be a tough pill to swallow, but it’s an important (albeit difficult) conversation to have.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 24, 2024

Customers & startups will benefit from this intense competition with better models, cheaper inference costs, & faster innovation as the incumbents spend their massive balance sheets to exert the greatest AI gravity.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

OCTOBER 30, 2019

As a management assistant at Premium Capital, a hedge fund based in Curaçao and run from Colombia, he was asked by his boss to fabricate information for several investors’ balance sheets to conceal the fact that their money had not been invested as expected. Let us for a moment step in Martínez’s shoes.

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StartupNation

JUNE 16, 2021

Review your profit and loss and balance sheet statements. These common scenarios demonstrate why you should spend time assessing your startup’s profit and loss and balance sheet statements to confirm that every single entry is accurately recorded. Finally, close your startup’s financials up to the most recent month.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Companies with strong offerings, management teams and balance sheets are poised to capture tremendous value. The digital healthcare revolution has already begun, and it will gain further momentum in 2022 as providers and patients look for new and better ways to improve care. Healthcare deals were hot in the first nine months in 2021.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

For a company with a longer payback, the payback period implicitly assumes a successful renewal to achieve the same positive effect on the company balance sheet. One couldn’t assert the same for contract B, which takes 10 months in our hypothetical example.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2022

These are a few recurring tasks that, when automated, can help your team check their status or progress at a glance: The preparation and review of balance sheet reconciliations. Balance sheet flux and/or P&L variance analysis. Completion and management of closing checklists.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

If you don’t have a strong balance sheet and can’t hire more people that’s fine — but understand this may lead to slower growth. I know this seems obvious but I promise you that even smart people forget this when talking about profitability. Thus the trade off between profits & growth.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 30, 2021

That’s why it appears in the expense column of a profit and loss, not in the balance sheet). When you spend $1,000 on Google ads to make $5,000 in revenue, that isn’t an investment?it’s it’s an expense. Also, revenue isn’t a return on investment. It’s not accurate, and it doesn’t tell us anything of real value.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Sure, the tried and true may have solid balance sheets, but they also perhaps stagnated in the idea department sometime around 2012. CIOs need to balance established players with startups as they set their IT budgets for next year. Startups building essential services in an innovative way should have fewer worries.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

It didn’t come with a balance sheet. It was our first fintech acquisition without a balance sheet.” We want to maintain that balance of touch through all the digital channels that we pursue and so we were very excited about Long Game’s ability to help us do that.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Splice’s beefed up balance sheet comes as new entrants have started vying for a slice of Splice’s music-making market. Splice is also pleased to announce that Kakul Srivastava has joined the company’s board. Steve Martocci at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2016. Image Credits: Getty Images.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 23, 2020

In addition to building cash up on your balance sheet, apply for a low-interest line of credit with your local community bank so you can utilize it for growth, acquisitions or for a period when you need to pivot to a new marketing plan or a new product. Finance to keep you recession-proof.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

You will only feel super defeated if you start fund raising too late in the process because you’ll have heart palpitations about the limitations of your bank account balance. Or ask anybody who has had a VC pull a term sheet for whatever reason. Keep your confidence high. You’re not done until you’re done. That’s fantasy land.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

By understanding this process, you’ll hopefully be in a position to secure debt term sheets and determine the optimal funding path for your specific circumstance. Once the lender issues a formal term sheet, the company usually engages in some negotiation to discuss outstanding items. Let’s get started.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

the Fed reducing the money supply and lowering its balance sheet by $100 billion each month). As we know, risky markets move in lock step with the balance sheets of central banks — particularly the Fed’s. And when the RRP balance decreases, it adds liquidity to the system, which is positive for risky assets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

The past few months have hit the startup community where it hurts — the balance sheet. With inflation rates at record highs, a recession on the horizon and threats of a long winter by venture capital giants like SoftBank , VC money is becoming harder to come by.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Ultimately, Capitolis’ network software is designed to help financial institutions optimize their balance sheets and reduce risk. To date, Capitolis says it has optimized $9 trillion in terms of gross notional balances. The company says it grew its revenue run rate by “sixfold” in 2020.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 15, 2020

The dropping investment in seed rounds is attributed to investors re-evaluating their portfolios and shoring up balance sheets for the quarters to come. Angel rounds were roughly steady by comparison in the quarter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

The company says it has been profitable for several years, which means that investors are just adding money to the balance sheet for long-term growth. Shopify has been using the feature for Shopify Balance. Why did Checkout.com raise so much money? Because they can. Checkout.com only had to hand out 2.5%

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