How to present your startup financials in just 3 slidesViola Group
This slide deck is part of a follow-on post by Carmel Ventures Partner Omry Ben David to his post on "5 Tips for building a financial plan for your startup (and why it’s more important for you than for your VCs)" http://bit.ly/2reLIB0
How much is your start-up worth? How much capital can you raise? How much equity will you have to give up? What will investor be looking at? What is too little? What is too much?
5 slides, quick and dirty job, far from perfect, but a good starting point.
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You are currently preparing your financing round and want to get an overview of a VC's Investment criteria? This checklist contains the main questions we want to touch base on in financial models for your Seed- and Series A round.
How to present your startup financials in just 3 slidesViola Group
This slide deck is part of a follow-on post by Carmel Ventures Partner Omry Ben David to his post on "5 Tips for building a financial plan for your startup (and why it’s more important for you than for your VCs)" http://bit.ly/2reLIB0
How much is your start-up worth? How much capital can you raise? How much equity will you have to give up? What will investor be looking at? What is too little? What is too much?
5 slides, quick and dirty job, far from perfect, but a good starting point.
FEEDBACK WELCOME
You are currently preparing your financing round and want to get an overview of a VC's Investment criteria? This checklist contains the main questions we want to touch base on in financial models for your Seed- and Series A round.
Maximizing Value through Finance - General Electric Kirsty Donovan
The CFO at GE joined us at the Corporate Performance Management Summit in New York in 2015. Discover finance as a strategic partner and change agent.
Check out this years event here: http://bit.ly/1V6dY1G
Startup Valuation: from early to mature stagesTatiana Siyanko
Methods and approached to startup and company valuations.
Please be free to send me any additions/correction proposals.
Prepared for Startup&co lecture in Freud cafe, Kyiv, April 30, 2014
You'll learn:
- How to identify which numbers to track and monitor.
- How to build a basic financial model.
- How to articulate your financial story.
One of the main reasons startups fail is they run out of capital. Learn how to master your startup's financials and stay in the game!
Understand the VC math and valuation from the investors perspective. What is fair deal and a super deal for the investee and the investor shares Madhukar Sinha, India Quotient
Financial Projections are key in all aspects of the fundraising process: Pitching, Valuation, Due Diligence, and in the long term planning of your company. Join our experts in an overview discussion of financial projections and learn the key metrics that will get investors to notice you, as well as those that will get you rejected. With the expert advice of serial Startup CFOs and VC Analysts we’ll walk you though the process of what you need to know. If you have no or little idea where to begin with your financial projections, this program is for you.
"Plates, Rates, and Competimates: Challenges and Choices Facing Novice Subcon...Russ Blaine
Presenting a "day in the life" of a small/novice subcontractor engaged in business with the DoD. Discussion focuses on typical challenges along with prioritization approaches, resolution advice, and available resources.
Subcontractor Best Practices and Rates: Plates, Rates "Competimates": Challe...SheneCommodore
This presentation discusses 7 business strategy tips to use for winning teaming arrangements. You will also gain a better understand of which contract terms carry the most risk in establishing best prices.
Maximizing Value through Finance - General Electric Kirsty Donovan
The CFO at GE joined us at the Corporate Performance Management Summit in New York in 2015. Discover finance as a strategic partner and change agent.
Check out this years event here: http://bit.ly/1V6dY1G
Startup Valuation: from early to mature stagesTatiana Siyanko
Methods and approached to startup and company valuations.
Please be free to send me any additions/correction proposals.
Prepared for Startup&co lecture in Freud cafe, Kyiv, April 30, 2014
You'll learn:
- How to identify which numbers to track and monitor.
- How to build a basic financial model.
- How to articulate your financial story.
One of the main reasons startups fail is they run out of capital. Learn how to master your startup's financials and stay in the game!
Understand the VC math and valuation from the investors perspective. What is fair deal and a super deal for the investee and the investor shares Madhukar Sinha, India Quotient
Financial Projections are key in all aspects of the fundraising process: Pitching, Valuation, Due Diligence, and in the long term planning of your company. Join our experts in an overview discussion of financial projections and learn the key metrics that will get investors to notice you, as well as those that will get you rejected. With the expert advice of serial Startup CFOs and VC Analysts we’ll walk you though the process of what you need to know. If you have no or little idea where to begin with your financial projections, this program is for you.
"Plates, Rates, and Competimates: Challenges and Choices Facing Novice Subcon...Russ Blaine
Presenting a "day in the life" of a small/novice subcontractor engaged in business with the DoD. Discussion focuses on typical challenges along with prioritization approaches, resolution advice, and available resources.
Subcontractor Best Practices and Rates: Plates, Rates "Competimates": Challe...SheneCommodore
This presentation discusses 7 business strategy tips to use for winning teaming arrangements. You will also gain a better understand of which contract terms carry the most risk in establishing best prices.
This presentation describes how a chief financial officer (CFO) becomes a Lean CFO by leading a company in developing and deploying a Lean management system. The finance team, business executives, and Lean leaders will all benefit from its forward-thinking improvement approach.
Explaining why the CFO role is so critical for companies adopting a Lean business strategy, The Lean CFO: Architect of the Lean Management System illustrates the process of building and integrating a Lean management system into the overall Lean business strategy. It describes why CFOs should move their companies away from performance measures based on traditional manufacturing practices and into a Lean performance measurement system. In addition, it explains how to integrate a Lean management system with a Lean business strategy to drive financial success.
WITHIN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, FINANCE WILL OPERATE DIFFERENTLY
Member of the Team that gives DIRECTION, comes up with strategy and evaluates the structural content of the organization.
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Investors historically sit through pitches and evaluate early stage startups on three primary metrics: 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling presentations, and 3) a strong team. Steve Blank, the Godfather of the Lean Startup movement said in his Customer Development Manifesto: “There’s no formal way for an investor to assess project maturity or quantify risks. Other than measuring engineering progress, there’s no standard language to communicate progress.”
What has been missing is a common language to communicate objectives and data that investors and entrepreneurs can use to communicate startup readiness.
Fortunately, the principles developed in the Lean Startup movement can be utilized to help entrepreneurs assess their Investor Readiness Level in a way that allows them to demonstrate “evidence” of their readiness. In this session, Max Green and Heath Naquin, both of the IC2 Institute, will share this new method for entrepreneurs to gauge their own investor readiness using the principles of Steve Blank's Investment Readiness Level and LeanLaunchpad.
Entrepreneurs attending this session will learn a valuable approach helping their start-up team prove their competence and validate their ideas by showing investors “evidence” that there’s a repeatable and scalable business model.
Heath Naquin serves as Executive Director for the SW I-Corps Node at The University of Texas at Austin. He also serves as the Managing Director for a multi-university NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) the Center for Next Generation Photovoltaics. Heath was a founding member of three different start-up business initiatives across sectors. He has helped companies raise more than $30 Million in funding from private and government sources.
Heath actively works on international commercialization initiatives and efforts focusing on industry collaboration, new project development and deployment along with building linkages between industry, government, academia and the venture capital community. Heath has worked in more than 20 countries on international commercialization and entrepreneurship initiatives in countries such as Colombia, Jordan, Iraq, Korea, Mexico, Portugal, Armenia, and Turkey. Heath has extensive experience with the NSF, EPA and NIH SBIR programs as an active commercial reviewer for many years. Heath also currently serves as Faculty for the Concordia University Executive MBA program.
WeWork provides small businesses, startups, and freelancers with beautiful workspace, inspiring community, and meaningful services. With weekly events, personalized support, flexibility, and access to thousands of like-minded entrepreneurs around the world - WeWork is the perfect place to grow your business in 2015.
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It is a given that we will all exit our business at some point - willingly or not! - and it is never to soon to start planning that exit.
There is a link at the end of this deck to the associated blog and webinar recording
10 Creative Ways to Boost Profits & Cash FlowPROTRADE United
Inconsistent cash flow can create stress and unnecessary pressure, resulting in reactive decisions that may have you compromising your profits in order to cover debts.
Careful cash flow planning and financial strategising allows you to make smarter decisions for the future. There are many simple tools a business owner can use to create consistent, sustainable revenue with a take-home profit.
This workshop provides you with trade-specific street smart tools and skills to help improve cash flow in your business.
Estate planning and probate attorney Mike Witzke gives a basic overview of succession planning and why it is important for minority business owners to have a plan in place for their business.
Financial Management for Small Business with Luis ArguetaPeopleFund
In this session, participants will learn the essentials of financial management and how to apply financial management practices, rules, and tools that are most relevant for small businesses. Participants will also learn how to prepare for common business financing needs.
Small business owners are entrepreneurial spirits with a particular talent or trade. While passionate about their craft, the financial aspects of running a business often present new challenges they are unprepared for. Even experienced business owners encounter new aspects of financial management as their businesses grow and expand. In this presentation, we will cover the principles of effective financial management every small business should know.
Managing your enterprise growth by numbers by Vinod Keni | #TiEInstitutetiemumbai
This deck was presented by Vinod Keni (Avishkar Ventures/ Intellecap) at the #TiEInstitute knowledge Series session for Growth stage entrepreneurs on managing finance led growth by. This is one of the three modules covered by Vinod at this session.
A guide to maximizing your business value through managing your cash flows in the best way.
Increasing the value of your business by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Avoid common cash flow mistakes that destroy businesses.
All in 70 slides with straight forward and instantly applicable insights.
No need for reading a lengthy book or attending a long workshop.
Handbook for developing and refreshing your skills of cash management.
Traditional finance is dead. Business has changed significantly over the last 2 decades. While this has opened up a new set of opportunities to reinvent the concepts of finance, a lot of businesses are being left behind as they grapple with issues that a proactive approach to finance could have easily avoided. All hail the new king of finance – Strategic Finance Thinking.
We get asked every other day by businesses we meet – So what is it that you do so differently? While this has become a part of our standard conversation, we thought of putting these thoughts together in a whitepaper that every SMB can use to define what they should be expecting from this new wave.
Disclaimer: Please note that these are our views are based on our experience in being advisors and working with various organizations. They are for the limited purpose of educating the officers of a company. How this applies to your business can vary significantly based on the context, stage, exact nature & size of the business.
Betagroup #68 - Africa & Belgium : sharing common challenges?Mohammed Cherif
« Africa & Belgium : sharing common challenges?» By Khadijat Abdulkadir « How mature is the African Market & what are the opportunities? » By Tonee Ndungu
APNIC Foundation, presented by Ellisha Heppner at the PNG DNS Forum 2024APNIC
Ellisha Heppner, Grant Management Lead, presented an update on APNIC Foundation to the PNG DNS Forum held from 6 to 10 May, 2024 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
Multi-cluster Kubernetes Networking- Patterns, Projects and GuidelinesSanjeev Rampal
Talk presented at Kubernetes Community Day, New York, May 2024.
Technical summary of Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Networking architectures with focus on 4 key topics.
1) Key patterns for Multi-cluster architectures
2) Architectural comparison of several OSS/ CNCF projects to address these patterns
3) Evolution trends for the APIs of these projects
4) Some design recommendations & guidelines for adopting/ deploying these solutions.
1.Wireless Communication System_Wireless communication is a broad term that i...JeyaPerumal1
Wireless communication involves the transmission of information over a distance without the help of wires, cables or any other forms of electrical conductors.
Wireless communication is a broad term that incorporates all procedures and forms of connecting and communicating between two or more devices using a wireless signal through wireless communication technologies and devices.
Features of Wireless Communication
The evolution of wireless technology has brought many advancements with its effective features.
The transmitted distance can be anywhere between a few meters (for example, a television's remote control) and thousands of kilometers (for example, radio communication).
Wireless communication can be used for cellular telephony, wireless access to the internet, wireless home networking, and so on.
This 7-second Brain Wave Ritual Attracts Money To You.!nirahealhty
Discover the power of a simple 7-second brain wave ritual that can attract wealth and abundance into your life. By tapping into specific brain frequencies, this technique helps you manifest financial success effortlessly. Ready to transform your financial future? Try this powerful ritual and start attracting money today!
# Internet Security: Safeguarding Your Digital World
In the contemporary digital age, the internet is a cornerstone of our daily lives. It connects us to vast amounts of information, provides platforms for communication, enables commerce, and offers endless entertainment. However, with these conveniences come significant security challenges. Internet security is essential to protect our digital identities, sensitive data, and overall online experience. This comprehensive guide explores the multifaceted world of internet security, providing insights into its importance, common threats, and effective strategies to safeguard your digital world.
## Understanding Internet Security
Internet security encompasses the measures and protocols used to protect information, devices, and networks from unauthorized access, attacks, and damage. It involves a wide range of practices designed to safeguard data confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Effective internet security is crucial for individuals, businesses, and governments alike, as cyber threats continue to evolve in complexity and scale.
### Key Components of Internet Security
1. **Confidentiality**: Ensuring that information is accessible only to those authorized to access it.
2. **Integrity**: Protecting information from being altered or tampered with by unauthorized parties.
3. **Availability**: Ensuring that authorized users have reliable access to information and resources when needed.
## Common Internet Security Threats
Cyber threats are numerous and constantly evolving. Understanding these threats is the first step in protecting against them. Some of the most common internet security threats include:
### Malware
Malware, or malicious software, is designed to harm, exploit, or otherwise compromise a device, network, or service. Common types of malware include:
- **Viruses**: Programs that attach themselves to legitimate software and replicate, spreading to other programs and files.
- **Worms**: Standalone malware that replicates itself to spread to other computers.
- **Trojan Horses**: Malicious software disguised as legitimate software.
- **Ransomware**: Malware that encrypts a user's files and demands a ransom for the decryption key.
- **Spyware**: Software that secretly monitors and collects user information.
### Phishing
Phishing is a social engineering attack that aims to steal sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details. Attackers often masquerade as trusted entities in email or other communication channels, tricking victims into providing their information.
### Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Attacks
MitM attacks occur when an attacker intercepts and potentially alters communication between two parties without their knowledge. This can lead to the unauthorized acquisition of sensitive information.
### Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attacks
Bridging the Digital Gap Brad Spiegel Macon, GA Initiative.pptxBrad Spiegel Macon GA
Brad Spiegel Macon GA’s journey exemplifies the profound impact that one individual can have on their community. Through his unwavering dedication to digital inclusion, he’s not only bridging the gap in Macon but also setting an example for others to follow.
11. • Don’t wait too long
• Don’t over-hire – a good controller does the job
• Data-driven
• Real time
• Proactive
• Relevant experience
• Pragmatic
A CFO... when & what to expect?
Gofor
12. • sales channel costs
• loose partnerships
• unchecked assumptions
• cloud costs
• working capital need
• investor expectations
Watch out for silent killers
15. Sales
CRM with a sales
funnel and lead
close dates
Production
An ERP that keeps
track of inventory
Marketing
Data points on
pricing & volume
R&D
Realistic cost
estimate
Whatdoesfinanceneed from other departments?
16. Corporate Finance
– Manage shareholders
– Plan & prepare dilution
– SOP: it’s coming to BE
– Term sheet: understand every line in it
– DueDil: your best investment: a scanner
The second hat
17. • Don’t outsource it
• Be sure of your investor
• Know your business model
Saas, Freemium, 2-sided Market place, User driven content,
E-commerce- Channels, value chain, partnerships
• Know your burn, break-even point and churn
• Have actual data & live KPI’s.
No numbers… no deal
When you go for funding
