Structure
Learn how to structure a solid foundation for your company.
Valuation Models – Establishing a company’s valuation is key to the entire negotiation process. It is also the fundamental determinate of capitalization tables, term sheets and investment agreements.
Corporate Governance – The structure of a company has implications on perceived value and there are many dimensions to this. These structural elements, form the DNA of a company’s genetic makeup that includes corporate structure, capital structure, deal structure, and organization structure.
Share Structure and Capitalization Tables – Understanding the arithmetic of share and deal structures is critically important to entrepreneurs because this understanding can make a difference in ownership and control issues. Armed with this understanding, you can anticipate what deals and/or term sheets optimize your position in any given round of financing.
Build an Awesome Action Oriented Team – An essential element required for financing is trust. Investors need to feel that the founders are honest with their claims and will carry out their plans as they have stated in their business plans. This cannot be overestimated. Investors will assess the management team’s trustworthiness and abilities through its direct contact with them, through the materials that are presented, and from the content of the company’s stated ideas and plans.
Structuring an equity capital deal requires a capitalization table. A capitalization table or “cap” table summarizes the ownership position of all shareholders of a company. This capitalization table spreadsheet model will help you understand pre and post money valuations; in addition by changing values it will show you how ownership positions may change with each ensuing financing round. This is useful in seeing the impact of any deal on the share structure of a company. FREE DOWNLOAD!
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This model helps you plan the number and type of employees to recruit, their salaries and the timing of hire. The human resource expense for a company although very important can be the largest cost component. This tool helps an entrepreneur optimize these valuable resources.
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It’s a difficult task to establish a company's valuation - particularly a start-up company. This simulation tool helps establish valuation estimates as guidelines for discussion with investors. Valuating a company is an art; yet this tool gives an entrepreneur an idea of what constitutes value.
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These powerful models can both save time and also money for a busy entrepreneur needing to demonstrate how the business “pencils out”. These model templates include revenue forecasting sheets, cost assumption sheets that then automatically generate financial statements such as Income, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow statements. The accompanying instructions make it easy to understand how the financial model works and what the logic behind the inputs. There are four different types of models based upon business type – Subscription based, Service Oriented, Production based Products and E-Commerce oriented.
Price: $89.95
These powerful models can both save time and also money for a busy entrepreneur needing to demonstrate how the business “pencils out”. These model templates include revenue forecasting sheets, cost assumption sheets that then automatically generate financial statements such as Income, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow statements. The instructions make it easy to understand how the financial model works and what the logic behind the inputs. There are four different types of models based upon business type – Subscription based, Service Oriented, Production based Products and E-Commerce oriented.
Price: $89.95
These powerful models can both save time and also money for a busy entrepreneur needing to demonstrate how the business “pencils out”. These model templates include revenue forecasting sheets, cost assumption sheets that then automatically generate financial statements such as Income, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow statements. The instructions make it easy to understand how the financial model works and what the logic behind the inputs. There are four different types of models based upon business type – Subscription based, Service Oriented, Production based Products and E-Commerce oriented.
Price: $89.95
These powerful models can both save time and also money for a busy entrepreneur needing to demonstrate how the business “pencils out”. These model templates include revenue forecasting sheets, cost assumption sheets that then automatically generate financial statements such as Income, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow statements. The instructions make it easy to understand how the financial model works and what the logic behind the inputs. There are four different types of models based upon business type – Subscription based, Service Oriented, Production based Products and E-Commerce oriented.
Price: $89.95
Every organization, sector, culture or industry has one - a lexicon of terms used to uniquely describe something specific that a group's membership understands. These are words or phrases that hold specific meaning. Download this free lexicon and get familiar with the language of investment. You'll find it useful to understand the terms used by investors. FREE DOWNLOAD!
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This tool is a 11 page template and accompanied spreadsheet is used by entrepreneurs to think about their companies external and internal environments. Internally assessing a company’s strengths (S) and weaknesses (W) as well as external factors such as opportunities (O) and threats (T). FREE DOWNLOAD!
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Looking for capital? It starts with creating a business plan. This 40 page e-book is filled with tips, suggestions and templates to assist an entrepreneur in getting started on the task of building a business plan. Its a great place to start for a new entrepreneur. FREE DOWNLOAD!
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