Kruze Consulting Firm Overview
Vanessa Kruze has a passion for startups and loves being a financial copilot for businesses. QuickBooks Online helps her go beyond the reports and forms and help founders and business owners understand the valuable data in their financials.
Featured Service - OpenReel
OpenReel was set out to change the video world by making it seamless to create high-end videos without the need for the big production cost.
Top 5 Startup Podcast Interviews
We’ve had the opportunity to interview some of the leading startup founders, executives, venture capitalists, lenders, lawyers, bankers and service providers as part of our Founders and Friends startup podcast series. So, we decided to compile the top five startup podcasts from our series.
Featured Service - T3 Advisors
T3 Advisors was founded in 2001, when three real estate veterans, seeing the limitations of the large, business-as-usual brokerage firms, surveyed leading technologists and venture capitalists and asked them if they were to purpose-build a real estate company to best serve the innovation economy.
Featured Service - Goodwin Procter
Goodwin Procter has one objective: making the right decisions in this environment that requires strategic counsel from an advisor who not only knows how laws are evolving in jurisdictions around the world, but also has a deep understanding of the startup world
Startup Alert: Supreme Court Rules on Sales Tax
The Supreme Court has overturned a 1992 precedent that allowed online businesses to only collect sales taxes in states where they had a “physical presence”. Today’s South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. ruling grants states broad authority to collect taxes from companies that have an “extensive virtual presence” even if they have no “physical presence” in that state.
Featured Service - Avison Young
Avison Young is the world’s fastest-growing commercial real estate services firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
STARTUP FINANCIAL MODELING TIPS
Our clients have raised over $500 million in VC in the last 12 months. In our experience, a solid financial model, one that helps convey the assumptions and one that builds excitement, is key to getting VCs to engage in your fundraising
Startup 409A Valuation Report
Hey, it’s Scott Orn at Kruze Consulting, and today we’re talking about 409A valuation reports and why startups need them.
Uber vs. Lyft Market Share
A Look At The Ridesharing Choices Made By Today’s Preeminent Startups.
3 Accounting tips for companies about to raise venture capital
Kruze Consulting clients have raised over $200 million of venture capital in the past 12 months. We regularly help outstanding startups prepare their books, accounting systems and projections for the next fund raise. Here are 3 tips that will help reduce the risk of an accounting error slowing down your next fund raise.
5 Things to do after You Raise Venture Capital
Today we’re talking about five things to do after you raise venture capital. The first one’s kind of obvious. You need a place to put that money, so you need to get a startup bank. We highly recommend you work with a bank that focuses on startups.
4 Reasons to Raise Venture Debt
Today we’re talking about four reasons to do ventured debt if you’re a startup. Now, the most important one is to extend your runway and make sure you hit all the key milestones the company needs to raise its next round of capital.
Venture Lenders Asking for Right to Invest Equity - Kruze Consulting
“A lot of times venture lenders, they’re smart. They know when they find a good deal when they’ve done a loan with a good startup, they want to get a little piece of the equity too.”
Venture Debt: Warrant Coverage Upfront or On Usage - Kruze Consulting
“Let’s talk about warrant coverage in a venture leaning deal, and whether the warrant coverage should be based on usage or commitment. “