Startup Financial Planning: Guide and Templates
Kruze Consulting’s COO, Scott Orn, provides a 9 step guide to creating a financial plan for your startup, given the current financial climate.
How to Manage VC Dollars When Interest Rates Go Down
Over the last six months, inflation has decreased a significant amount (as of the end of February 2024).
Kruze’s clients are twice as likely to be acquired
Kruze Consulting clients are twice as likely to be acquired as the average startup.
Cash bookkeeping can affect your gross profit
Gross profit is a very underappreciated metric in the startup world. Gross profit is the difference between your revenue and the cost of goods sold.
Can you backdate payroll?
Kruze Consulting’s COO, Scott Orn, explains why you should not backdate payroll and the compliance problems with the IRS doing so will create.
FDIC insurance for startup funds
In the wake of the SVB crisis, startup founders with millions of dollars in VC funding are looking for FDIC coverage over $250,000. Here is how to try to get it.
What do Fractional Startup CFOs Cost?
Kruze’s COO, Scott Orn’s, guide to the cost of fractional startup CFOs and how their billing structure works to ensure you receive the service you pay for.
What Salaries Startup CEOs Earn in 2024?
Kruze Consulting answers frequently asked question ‘What Should my CEO Salary be?’ by looking at payroll data from 110s of seed and venture-backed startups.
How are Startup Employee Strike Prices Set?
It’s a common question: Does the startup board have any flexibility when it comes to setting the strike price for options?
Bookings vs Revenue vs ARR
At Kruze Consulting, we get tons of questions about the difference between bookings, ARR and revenue.
What are Your VC’s Return Expectations Depending on the Stage of Investment?
It is incredibly important that startup founders know what their VCs are going for so that they can be aligned and make smart decisions.
Can You Lose Money if You Sell Treasuries Early?
A lot of startups are finding that, with interest rates going up, they have the opportunity to work with a cash management specialist who can then get them into very safe Treasury and corporate bonds, even packages or bundles of bonds.
What is a Secondary Stock Transaction?
Kruze Consulting COO, Scott Orn, explains everything you need to know about secondary stock transactions and why VC firms are buying founder shares.
Should you cap commissions?
A question we get frequently from startup founders is should they cap commissions for their sales team? The reason they ask this question is because they get the financials we prepare at Kruze, and they are startled that the VP of Sales or a top salesperson is making more money than anyone else in the company.
Should founders accrue payroll before VC funding?
This particular scenario has happened in startups. You’ve started a company. You were used to getting a regular paycheck at your previous job, but right now there’s no money to pay yourself, but hopefully there will when you get funded. And at that point, you feel that you could “reimburse” yourself for all the paychecks you missed.
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