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Emergency business help is being requested or the company will be folded within 30 days. My client with multiple SoWs contracts ready to implement with B2B clients, needs $6MM-$10MM cash injection in order to replace the current PE investors (at their will). You can take majority or full ownership of this of this $5MM revenue B2B2C big data AI machine learning company, with a plan to grow to $100MM in the next few years. The current PE firm got cold feet and might have made the biggest mistake but don't care and this is your opportunity to turn a few million in to a $100MM company. They are fully set up and operational... it's not a risky start up, it's a small company ready for hyper growth. I promise I would not risk my reputation if I didn't fully trust this CEO client contact and have past working experience of them with feedback from many highly successful contacts.

Want to check if your new business idea can make good money in only 5 minutes? Building on my post from last week….I wanted to make it even easier for you: —--> First gather the following metrics, and place it in the Chat GPT prompt below A = Estimated order numbers for the first year B = Expected order growth rate expected per year (%age) C = Price per order D = Cost to produce one product or service (if applicable) E = Sales & marketing cost per order F = Number of Employees G = Average annual salary of your employees H = Investment required (if any) I = Inflation rate (%age) J  = Value of any other administrative costs per year, such as tech subscriptions K = Corporation tax rate —--> Second use this Chat GPT prompt to create the financials: "I need financial projections, ROI, and Break Even Point for my startup business. Here's the information you'll need: Customer orders start at “A” a year Orders grow at a rate of “B%” per year Price per order is ‘$C” Cost of sales per order is “D” Marketing expense per order is “$E” There are “F” employees with an average salary of “G” per year Investment is “$H” Expenses grow at a rate ofI% per year. Other administrative costs are “J” per annum Profit tax rate is “K%” Please provide the financial projections table for the next 5 years including gross profit, EBITDA, and profit after tax. Also, provide ROI and Break Even Point. Only show full numbers, do not include decimal points" Any questions about how to identify these metrics let me know! #cfotips #businessidea #startups #fractionalcfo ______________ I'm Karen — I help CEOs and founders understand their numbers so they can make the business decisions that truly matter. If you found this post helpful ♻️repost and follow me Karen Stephen 🧠 for more business financial tips.

The era of the ‘New Enterprise’ Part 2 - a case for why a completely different deal making methodology is needed... “Google’s Chrome Kills the Lucrative Toolbar Business”. - New-York Times (2008). If we invest / acquire a traditional enterprise, say a physical grocery store, pricing how much its worth is relatively straightforward. We analyze the store’s past and present performance. We use the data as an anchor to estimate the future performance. We negotiate the price with the owner considering the store’s market size, inventory cost, EBITA and a few other finance acronyms. If we were to create a ‘weights’ model to how we price the store, past and present will, in most cases, be the ‘heavier’ weights. This is the historic way of pricing business investments and acquisitions in traditional enterprises. The ‘New Enterprise’ deal making requires a completely different methodology. If we look at a venture-backed SaaS startup as an example of a ‘New Enterprise’. The historic data is important, yet the heaviest weights in our pricing model are completely different. We will focus on: (1) Potential - Will this company become a $10B+ business?  (2) Probability of success - Can this team, technology, product seize the potential? Our model is geared (aggressively) towards the future, which also presents the biggest challenge in the ‘New Enterprise’ dealmaking. The market, competition, GTM channels, product, and technology are constantly changing. The past is static and might be irrelevant, the present and the future are dynamic. This means that if we want to best assess the risks / rewards we have to constantly revise our perception of the present and recalculate our predictions of the future. We need data that is DYNAMIC. That changes constantly as the market does. We need it structured, sanitized and preferably analyzed by an AI model that would surface insights about risks and opportunities, in real-time, which we can quickly act on. The era of the ‘New Enterprise’ needs a completely different deal making methodology. Alon, Gil, Yaniv. Dealigence

Private equity typically hires an investment banking firm to run an auction to obtain the highest price when selling a portfolio company. But historically, the market for trading small companies (e.g., < $3M of EBITDA) has been fragmented and inefficient and that's one reason why valuation multiples at the subscale end of the market are relatively low. Start-ups like acquire.com and Axial leverage technology to create greater efficiency, and it's inevitable that AI technology can further help "match" potential buyers and sellers and drive better outcomes for both. https://lnkd.in/g_JqdAUp

What Sam Altman’s Prediction About The $1B One-Person Business Model Means For You If you’re under 39, you’ve got a massive advantage. Michael Lim The Startup Michael Lim · Following Published in The Startup · 5 min read · Feb 25, 2024 5,641 154 I’m going all-in on the one-person business model. This shouldn’t surprise you. I write about the one-person business model all the time. The best part? You can build a one-person business while you work a full-time job. But a recent quote by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made me realize the opportunity: “In my little group chat with my tech CEO friends, there’s this betting pool for the first year that there is a one-person billion-dollar company. Which would have been unimaginable without AI and now will happen.” Here’s what this means for you. If you’re under 39, you’ve got a massive advantage. I work with a lot of people over 40 years old. To put it bluntly, they don’t know how to use the internet. They still type with one finger at a time. They struggle to use basic project management tools. This isn’t everyone over 40, but it’s been my experience so far. I’m not trying to be mean, this is what I’ve observed. https://lnkd.in/d_Ee7EGH

What Sam Altman’s Prediction About The $1B One-Person Business Model Means For You If you’re under 39, you’ve got a massive advantage. Michael Lim The Startup Michael Lim · Following Published in The Startup · 5 min read · Feb 25, 2024 5,641 154 I’m going all-in on the one-person business model. This shouldn’t surprise you. I write about the one-person business model all the time. The best part? You can build a one-person business while you work a full-time job. But a recent quote by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made me realize the opportunity: “In my little group chat with my tech CEO friends, there’s this betting pool for the first year that there is a one-person billion-dollar company. Which would have been unimaginable without AI and now will happen.” Here’s what this means for you. If you’re under 39, you’ve got a massive advantage. I work with a lot of people over 40 years old. To put it bluntly, they don’t know how to use the internet. They still type with one finger at a time. They struggle to use basic project management tools. This isn’t everyone over 40, but it’s been my experience so far. I’m not trying to be mean, this is what I’ve observed. https://lnkd.in/ewfFJSxF

I met a newly hired business broker the other day. He was young, energetic, and ready to learn. But I wondered, did he make the right career choice? A good business broker can bring incredible value to a small business owner who wants to sell a business. A bad business broker . . . well, that’s a different post. The question here is . . . can business brokers compete with the increasing pressure to “cut out the middle”? To those of you who want to short-cut this question by pointing out that there are elements of a broker’s current job that will be hard to replicate by algorithm, I’m right there with you. Part of deal making, as it's currently done, demands human facilitation. How can an online match-making application deal with an owner's last-minute doubts? Will AI “save the deal” when an owner second guesses their decision to sell 2 hours before closing? That said, are those “hard to replace” parts significant enough to preserve the broker role as we know it? Problems have multiple solutions. Will automated platforms simply create “deal counselor” positions designed to facilitate the non-mechanized parts of selling a business? Will “broker” become synonymous with psychologist or therapist? Will brokers finally be able to spend less time chasing listings, and focus more on deal facilitation? We know this “sell a business” space is changing. How much change, by when, is the question? What changes are you seeing in how traditional brokers do their jobs? What do you think? Will we have #businessbrokers in 20 years? Will main street businesses (the largest portion of the market) be sold mostly online? And if so, will owners be better served by automation in this process? If we still have brokers, how different will the job look? Will #AI take-over this industry? What does your crystal ball say? #smallbusiness #businessowners #entrepreneurship

What are you doing to find the areas where you're bleeding time and money? Sherlock Holmes called himself a Consulting Detective. It's also the perfect title for those of us in Ops. One of the first things I do when working with a brand is to dig into their processes. This includes files in their drive, the SOP's they're following, the tech stack, and how it works together. Often, I work with startups that are bogged down by manual processes and spreadsheets. While I'm not against either, I avoid having more than one spreadsheet for the same data and doing data entry more than once. The goal is to take as many manual steps out as possible, connect pieces together to avoid double entry, which is double the work, double the cost, and double the chance of mistakes. However, many brands have a resistance to changing the ways they are comfortable with. If you apply a time value to each of those things and note where you have blockers and redundancies in time increments, then you can apply a cost to that time. The only thing you need to convince yourself to make a change is to see it from a different perspective. Be a detective in your own Ops. Find the areas where there is a Gap to Goal. Your profit margins will thank you for it. #ecommercetips

Imagine scaling your business to match your biggest competitor. Let’s explore this scenario: You're a small business offering recruitment services for Finance and Accounting. What sets you apart is your focus on personalised, specialised services—not being a massive corporate giant. However, you face two significant challenges: limited cash flow for hiring new staff and not having 1,000 employees to make 20 calls a day. Now, imagine integrating our AI Agent—indistinguishable from a human voice—into your operations. This AI can make 100,000 calls in a single day. Yes, you heard that right: 100,000 calls per day. It’s faster, more intelligent, and designed to drive towards closing deals, all while maintaining that essential human touch. Suddenly, you’re operating at the same scale as your biggest competitor. But here’s the game-changer: you’re achieving this at a fraction of the cost, potentially saving tens, if not hundreds of thousands of pounds. In this scenario, you win. Let’s make this a reality. Email me at Blake@digitalpeacock.co.uk. If I'm wrong - I'll give you my commission. That's how much I believe in my product!

Mitigating risk and uncertainty in startup valuation involves several best practices: Your due diligence must include you reviewing variety of data sources for valuation, including industry trends, competitor analysis, and market conditions. This is mandatory so that you are realistic and cautious with financial projections. The due diligence includes Identify and analyze potential risks, including market risks, competitive risks, and technological changes. You don't want your endeavor to be over evaluated and you certainly must look to manage/reduce red herrings.