Equity vesting in startups is a critical concept for founders and employees to understand. It is a process by which ownership of a company is gradually transferred to an individual over time, typically in the form of stock options or restricted stock units (RSUs). The...
A startup in itself is a great display of the values it pursues. The word “startup” tells us about conceiving an idea and getting it up to higher levels. Both of these factors, however, fully depend on a technology that will be picked as a...
Being a startup, one of your most important assets is your brand and that brand is usually embodied in your startup name and logo. The valuable time that you invested in coming up with just the right creative name, developing the branding and marketing around...
Learning to read financial documents is one thing, but learning to use them as tools to guide the business and ultimately communicate clearly to 100+ investors has shown many entrepreneurs just how nuanced non-GAAP startup companies can be. In this post I’ll walk through the...
The typical adult makes 35,000 decisions each day. If you do the math (and account for seven hours of sleep), that’s about 2,000 decisions every hour — or one choice every two seconds. Most decisions are actually micro-choices, like clicking a link or taking a sip of...
For any entrepreneur, knowing how much money you need to raise is a big part of being ready to talk to investors. How you can determine the amount of capital you need to raise is key to getting the figures right. This post should help...
If you’ve ever taken the leap of starting your own business, you’ve likely experienced an emotional rollercoaster. Your business seems like it’s going well, and you’re on a high one moment. Then you encounter a setback, and you feel low the next moment. And, this...
Cash burn rate is a term startups need to know. It basically shows the average monthly costs or the rate at which your cash is being spent. Why is it important? Because it measures how fast your company is spending the available cash; it helps...
Cashflow. We all have to deal with and manage it, so why is it, that only a few of us can actually do it consistently? Since this is such an important topic for entrepreneurs, we want to start a discussion this week with some tips...
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