TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The pandemic’s bite was felt in the second quarter when, if one subtracted the capital raised by Reliance Jio, VC investments fell by 9% compared to Q1 2020 and 23% compared to the year-ago second quarter. A VC rebound. In the third quarter, things turned around.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 28, 2021

NanoSpec Instruments, located in Centre County, has developed innovative noise subtraction technology that enables the manufacture of time-resolved spectroscopic instrumentation, which is faster, easier, and more sensitive to use. www.magnitudeinstruments.com.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Here’s the data: This chart shows Q2’s cloud year-over-year growth rates subtracted from Q3’s own; a result greater than one shows that a company’s year-over-year growth accelerated from the second quarter to the third. If you are into similar datasets, he’s worth following on Twitter.)

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Gust

JUNE 21, 2014

The problem is that since the average holding period for an angel investment is around nine years , that means by the time you’ve toted up the returns for 90% of your investments, and subtracted out the time value of money, the one very successful investment in the entire portfolio must return at least *30* times the original investment!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Merchants repay their loan in such a way that platforms subtract a certain percentage of the future merchant payouts”. “On the lending side, we work with both balance sheet lenders and lending vehicles with whom we pre-agree on lending terms and loan decision criteria and on whose behalf we execute the loan decision,” says Röhrborn.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 26, 2022

How focusing on don’ts is more important than dos in increasing the chances of success. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

It will force teams to think deeply about what’s absolutely necessary, which tools will add efficiency (or subtract from it).” “The current budget-constrained environment should be seen as a net positive by marketers,” he writes. “It You can sign up here.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Multiple each engineer x $1 million and subtract each MBA by $1 million and that’s your valuation As an MBA I can say that. You know the old adage (I first heard from Guy Kawasaki) – how much is an Internet company worth? But what comes after the original team?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 12, 2014

Subtract the $8.3 The fund''s dollars are used both for investments and for administration--so lets''s say I wind up putting about 85% of the fund to work in actual investments. That''s about $7 million. If all I do is double it, that''s $14 million of returns. That''s a little over a million dollar gain for me personally. million.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

They pivot, they add and subtract from their management teams; they modify their exit strategies. When the original business plan did not progress as expected, we helped Docvia execute a creative exit where the company sold its technology to a specialized helmet manufacturer with royalty terms. Startups often do not end up where they began.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 22, 2023

Subtracting OpEx from gross profit is a company’s operating income. Higher LTV:CAC → higher margins Let’s start by looking at the inputs into a company’s OpEx (operating expense) lines. Typically, OpEx spend breaks down into 3 buckets: R&D (research and development), G&A (general and administrative), and S&M (sales and marketing).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Unicorn’s modular approach uses many smaller systems operating in parallel; smaller volumes are easier to control, and also easier to add or subtract to meet demand or replace others. It can take years — or even decades — to scale a bioprocess to large-scale bioreactors (imagine steel tanks the size of a small house),” Reid said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

However, the advancements made are subtracted from the direct deposit account. EWA gives employees access to some of their accrued wages before the end of their payroll cycle. Workers still receive the entirety of their paycheck at the end of each cycle. ZayZoon funds early wage requests itself to mitigate risk on the employer side.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

It will force teams to think deeply about what’s absolutely necessary, which tools will add efficiency (or subtract from it).” “The current budget-constrained environment should be seen as a net positive by marketers,” he writes. “It

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Now I have a plan to fight back against patent trolls. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Gust

JULY 16, 2014

So we subtract the $100,000 and find that the terms under which I invested mean that I valued the company at $900,000 before I appeared in the picture. Now, since Company X has $100,000 in its bank account following my investment, we need to back that out to determine how much the company was worth before my investment.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Hint: it’s more about subtraction than addition.) Read here: How I Built A Six-Figure Consulting Business Through LinkedIn What you need to give up to make 6-figures online Tim Denning has made 6-figures online , and he’s figured a few things out in the process. You can copy them to change your financial trajectory. None of it helps.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

Subtracting COGS from Revenue yields Gross Profit. Subtracting these expenses from Gross Profit produces Net Income, and dividing Net Income by Revenue leaves us the Net Margin (%). The fees Five9 pays to telephone companies is a Cost of Goods Sold. Gross Profit divided by Revenue equals Gross Margin.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

subtract out the super, crazy successful companies. How can you tell if they really are good at intros and follow through on what they say they’re going to do. The best way – of course – is to reference check. Here’s how you reference check a VC (link to post with longer version). look at their portfolio list.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 11, 2021

Business owners will compare gross receipts of the business before expenses are subtracted. Will an EIDL Grant be subtracted from my PPP for loan forgiveness? Publicly traded companies are not eligible to receive second draw PPP loans. How is the 25% reduction in revenues calculated? What if you weren’t in business all of 2019?

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

It is calculated by subtracting the starting balance of the period by the ending balance of that period (starting balance + revenue earned – expenditures). Net burn rate is calculated by dividing the net cash outflow by the number of moths. The net cash outflow takes into account the revenue generated during the specified period.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 3, 2021

Before every meeting, add or subtract a point. On Android, I like Counter. It is super simple and has a ‘plus one’ and ‘minus one’ feature. Alternatively, here is a counter app for iPhones. Having a reward will motivate you to turn a damaging habit into a healthy habit.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 9, 2022

And those computations couldn’t be simpler - ANDing and ORing ones and zeros together in order to add, subtract, multiply, move data, etc. It is a whole lot of switches (transistors built into the fabric of a semiconductor) organized to execute boolean algebraic computations.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 15, 2013

It’s calculated by taking the revenue and subtracting all the COGS (costs of goods sold), which in software businesses includes serving and hosting costs, software licenses used, and revenue share agreements in the case of ad networks. Gross margin is a measure how expensive it is make the product.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

You really need to subtract the final month. Take cash balance plus the net of your receivables & payables to get “net cash.” ” Divide net cash by your monthly net burn rate as an approximation of how many months of cash you have. It’s like when the red light comes on in your car.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 10, 2020

Subtract the bills that you must pay in the next 30 days, and then divide by your monthly cash burn rate. Against that backdrop, take a look at how much capital you have in your bank account. That will give you your estimated runway time to zero, measured in months.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In trying to diagnose failures, founders subtract one component at a time, still hoping to automate as much as possible. When those processes struggle to function under a wide range of use cases, the people who are most harmed tend to be those already marginalized. They should consider the opposite: introducing one AI component at a time.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2021

That will subtract monetary value and we will need to figure out how to reduce that in order to maximize our share of the pie!” Monica kept sharing insights into the gains and pains the product was addressing, while Joe played “devil’s advocate” role, challenging her thinking. Joe, you are right!

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

Instead, think of date and time modifiers as a way to add or subtract time within a field to get your desired date. This isn't the same as Delay by Zapier — available on our paid plans —which lets you control the timing of Zap steps. If you need to adjust dates and formats, Formatter can transform both in the same step.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

You must subtract it from your top-line revenue. And even then, the auditors do not roll up their sleeves in nearly the same way they do during an IPO process, where they know the SEC will review their work in excruciating detail.

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Feedough

MARCH 11, 2021

The benefit is compared with the price paid for the offering: The customer value is the net benefit received after subtracting all the costs that the customer incurs in obtaining those desired benefits. The business can add or subtract functions to increase the product value to the customer.

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Berkonomics

JULY 9, 2020

How about projecting cash on your dashboard: cash on hand plus expected accounts receivable collections subtracting necessary accounts payable payments and payroll. And how about projecting cashflow? You will find many more candidates for your personal dashboard.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Some of these tools enable you to edit the output if it’s not quite right, e.g., increasing or decreasing the tempo, adding or subtracting certain instruments, or even rearranging notes. These tools typically allow you to choose a genre, mood, and energy level for your song, and then use your inputs to auto-generate a new track.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 19, 2017

To calculate the burn, I’ve subtracted the amount of cash on the company balance sheet at IPO from the total amount raised. How would accurate is this equation across a larger number of companies? The chart above plots the actual burn of ten next generation software companies compared to the estimated burn.

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Derek Sivers

JUNE 6, 2018

We also need to subtract. We want to see the world clearly and know what’s what. But once we’re past the first stage of wisdom, the next stage involves adapting to new changes. We don’t get wise just by adding and adding.

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OkDork

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Like what adds to it, what subtracts from it—and every hour is an opportunity cost. And I figured out what I want to change about it for next time. This way, I am constantly optimizing myself. One of the things I've recognized is that I have to be mindful of my energy. For example, if I'm making a video, I'm not recruiting for AppSumo.

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OnStartups

AUGUST 5, 2015

To calculate your target CAC, you must estimate the average lifetime value (LTV) of your customer ( learn how to calculate LTV ) and subtract your profit margin. Doing so will help guide you in determining which channels to test. Hitting this CAC will allow you to profitably acquire customers.

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