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.
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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.
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Tech Startup Survival Guide: Raising Cash When Funding Dries Up
Lighter Capital’s step-by-step survival guide helps tech startups navigate cash flow and funding to keep growing in a shaky economy.
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Creating Successful Company Offsites — Location Is Everything
Picking the right location is essential to creating successful company offsite retreats. Get our tips.
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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.
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Navigating the Great Resignation
Navigating “The Great Resignation” and Lessons from a Lighter Capital portfolio company, by Melissa Widner, CEO Lighter Capital Nothing...
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What Is Seed Money and How Do You Get It For Your Startup?
When it's time to get serious and raise seed money for your startup, start here. Learn what it is and how to prepare for a seed round.
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7 Ways Your Startup Can Thrive In A Tough Economy
In the span of a few short months, the entire global economy has changed. The way we work has changed. Even the way we live our daily...
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How to Grow a SaaS Startup From $0 to $50 million ARR
Learn best practices for growing a SaaS startup from $0 to $50M in ARR, so you can build a winning business roadmap.
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How to Write an Elevator Pitch That Will Open the Door to New Opportunities
An elevator pitch is essentially a short speech intended to generate interest in an idea or proposition within a very limited timeframe....
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Book Review – The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barrier
Most books about business are written by people involved in creating and managing companies: founders, CEOs, or venture capitalists. They...
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6 Effective Employee Retention Strategies to Reduce Employee Turnover
For SaaS companies, understanding how to utilize effective employee retention strategies to reduce employee turnover and retain key...
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Channel Your Inner Unicorn: Lessons from the $1B Market Cap Club
If you’re at the helm of a fast-growing startup, you may have wondered if your innovative project has what it takes to become a unicorn....
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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...
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How to Improve Scalability in Cost Structure
Scalability is a searing hot topic among entrepreneurs and investors these days. Startups must have a firm grasp of how scaling a...
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Effective Meeting Strategies: 7 Tips to Conduct More Effective Meetings
Everyone agrees that meetings are essential, but everyone also agrees that meetings can be a time-suck. It’s important to get people face...
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Silos and Turf Wars: How to Break Down Silos in the Workplace
As we can see from the discussion thus far, silos in the workplace are primarily created for a couple of reasons: Lack of cohesion at the...
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Silos and Turf Wars: An In-Depth Look Into the Causes of Organizational Silos
As a point of clarity, there is another silos definition being used in the SaaS market. In this definition, a silo exists when a SaaS...
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Silos and Turf Wars: What are Organizational Silos and Why Do They Exist
Silos and turf wars We have all most likely seen organizational silos, or turf wars, in action in our careers. Different departments...
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Book Review – Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Every founder of a startup dreams of their company becoming the next Apple, Amazon, or Alphabet. Every entrepreneur imagines that they...
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