Assessing Your Company’s Fiscal Fitness: 10 Questions For CEO’s To Ask
I developed this list from my many years of working with CEO’s, helping increase cash flow and earnings. Taken as a whole, they define my process of getting the company to fiscal fitness. A “yes” answer to each of these will lay the groundwork for a successful exit.
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Are you looking for other resources to help your business?
I make a point of collaborating with very experienced people who can help in the areas listed below. These are high-quality service providers, listed here in alphabetical order:
• Accounting: Public accountants for all industries
• Bankers: Deposit and lending transactions from banks of all sizes, to fit needs
• Bookkeeping: QuickBooks and Peachtree experts
• Business coaches: Institutional and private coaches
• Commercial real estate: Tenant and landlord representatives
• HR: Entire range of HR services needed before a full time HR manager is hired
• Insurance: Commercial and personal insurance
• Internet design and development: Basic and complex
• IT: Entire range of IT services
• Legal: Client needs of all types, from full-service law firms to sole proprietors
• Mergers and Acquisitions: For transactions of all sizes
• Marketing: Overall strategy, Marketing communications, Internet-specialized
• Payroll: For all sizes of companies
• Sales: Sales force evaluation, motivation, and training
• Tax accounting: Personal and corporate
• Valuation: Simple and complex companies and transactions
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Are you involved in a start-up that’s seeking investor funding? Here’s an informational piece I’ve developed:
“Funding Prep 101” is a PPT presentation I created at the request of CONNECT Springboard. It offers answers to questions such as:
• What drives the valuation of my company?
• What is a likely range of valuations at various stages?
• What are my potential funding sources and funding vehicles?
• How do my successive funding rounds show up on a capitalization table?
• How do the funding rounds affect my dilution?
Here are decks for two industries:
Medical Devices Funding Prep 101
These decks can also be found on the CONNECT website, as the fourth section on this page: http://www.connect.org/resources/guide/ . There are separate decks for High Tech, Medical Devices, and also BioPharma.