How to Prep Your Startup's Financial Documents for Investors
You’ll need to present your financials to prospective investors to get funding for your startup. Here's how to prepare.
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- Nov 1
- 4 min
Benefits to Securing Funding Prior to the End of the Year
Growing startups need capital to maintain growth and cash runway. Here are 3 reasons founders look to secure funding before the new year.
- Oct 26
- 4 min
What is ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) and How Do You Calculate It?
Learn best practices for calculating annual recurring revenue (ARR), a critical metric for SaaS businesses.
- Sep 28
- 4 min
SaaS EBITDA Margins and The Rule of 40
What is a good EBITDA margin for a SaaS startup, and what does the Rule of 40 tell you about your business? Get the answers here.
- Sep 1
- 4 min
SaaS Gross Margins and How to Increase Yours
What's a good gross margin for SaaS startups? Compare yours to SaaS industry benchmarks and learn how to increase your profit margin.
- Aug 31
- 4 min
How to Calculate EBITDA Margin and What It Says About Your Financial Health
What is EBITDA margin, how is it calculated, and what does it tell you? Learn about this popular, alternative measure of profitability.
- Aug 30
- 5 min
Accounting for Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) in SaaS
SaaS startup financials often report cost of goods sold wrong, or don't account for it at all! Here's how to get it right.
- Aug 29
- 5 min
Gross Margin vs. Net Margin: Two Startup Profitability Calculations
How are gross profit margin and net profit margin different? Learn how to calculate each of them and why healthy margins are important.
- Aug 10
- 5 min
How To Calculate and Manage Your Startup’s Cash Burn Rate
Your burn rate, or how fast you spend your cash, requires a balanced approach to risk. Here's how to calculate your burn rate and manage it.
- Mar 4
- 6 min
The Importance of Bookkeeping for Fast-Growing Startups
Fine-tuned, accurate bookkeeping is a seldom mentioned startup success factor. Learn why it's important to get your books in order, ASAP.
- Feb 22
- 4 min
10 Steps for Setting up Your Startup's Accounting Function
It's never too soon to set up your startup's accounting function & establish infrastructure to support company finances as you grow.
- Dec 17, 2022
- 5 min
8 Principles for Building Realistic Financial Projections for Your Startup
Follow these principles for building aggressive, yet realistic financial projections for your startup when raising capital from investors.
- Sep 19, 2022
- 6 min
How to 10x your business intelligence with finance automation
By Geoff Charles, Head of Product, Ramp Time is the only asset a business can never fully recoup. For companies looking to become leaders...
- Aug 6, 2022
- 4 min
Net Revenue Retention vs. Gross Revenue Retention
SaaS and subscription-based businesses rely on retaining and expanding customer accounts in order to achieve healthy, sustainable revenue...
- Oct 19, 2021
- 2 min
How to Easily Forecast Recurring Revenue Using Clockwork
Clockwork made a solution for forecasting and modeling recurring revenue. Startup founders will want to see how easy it is!
- May 1, 2020
- 4 min
SaaS Revenues: Every Founder’s Accounting Nightmare
Only in your wildest dreams did you think you’d be booking customers left and right, but already within the first few months of your...
- Dec 20, 2019
- 4 min
Considering a Business Loan? Don’t Ignore the True Cost of Capital
When considering a business loan to finance your capital needs, you’ll no doubt encounter a number of funding options. There are several...
- Nov 7, 2019
- 3 min
4 Ways to Protect Your Business From Wage and Hour Lawsuits
In 2017, employers were hit with over 8,200 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) wage and hour lawsuits, largely due to failure to pay the...
- Oct 30, 2019
- 4 min
What Is the Working Capital Turnover Ratio and How Is It Calculated?
What is working capital? Working capital is to a startup as wind is to a sailboat. Learn how to calculate and manage this critical metric.
- Oct 21, 2019
- 7 min
How to Build a Scalable SaaS Business
You can't scale successfully without cost scalability. Learn how to improve your cost structure and build a scalable SaaS business.
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