This document provides strategies for achieving cashflow success for startups. It discusses key financial metrics like total addressable market, revenue, costs of goods sold, gross profit, operating expenses, reinvestment, net cashflow, and cash in bank. It emphasizes the importance of timing of cash flows. Specific tips include choosing a large growing market, aiming for 10% market share, having a high digital gross profit margin, reducing the cash conversion cycle, keeping operating expenses low initially through outsourcing, and combining network effects with low reinvestment for scalability. The overall message is that cash flow, not profits, ultimately determines a startup's success.
10. Total Market
x Market Share
Revenue
-COGS
Gross Profit
-OPEX
- Reinvestment
Net Cashflow
Cash In Bank
Does size
really
matter?
1. Largeisgood;Growingfastisbetter
2. TAM, SAM, SOM(commonC331
mistake)
3. 4 types of market by Steve Blank
11. How much
will you grab
?
Total Market
x Market Share
Revenue
-COGS
Gross Profit
-OPEX
- Reinvestment
Net Cashflow
Cash In Bank
1.Networkingeffects,winner-take-all
2.Typeofmarketdeterminesmarkets
hare
12. Rev = Pricex
Volume
Total Market
x Market Share
Revenue
-COGS
Gross Profit
-OPEX
- Reinvestment
Net Cashflow
Cash In Bank
1.Priceisthestoryofyourpersona
and competition; value is what you
get, price is what you pay
2.Volume isanoperationalmetric
3. Top-down and bottom-up are
complementary
13. Roar that biz
engine!
Total Market
x Market Share
Revenue
-COGS
Gross Profit
-OPEX
- Reinvestment
Net Cashflow
Cash In Bank
Physical Digital
Gross Profit Margin Digitality Spectrum
0% 50% 100%
16. Timing of your cash
flows is everything (1).
Inventory
Purchased
& Received
Inventory
Sold
CCC= DIH + DSO - DPO
DSODIH
DPO CCC
Cash
Received
CashPaid
17. Timing of your cash
flows is everything (2).
Amazon "manages to hold inventory for 28.9 days plus 10.6 days to
collect receivables or 40 days in total but then pays accounts
payable in 54 days thus achieving a negative cash conversion cycle
for Amazon.com of -14 days. "
18. Hatred
allowed.
Total Market
x Market Share
Revenue
-COGS
Gross Profit
-OPEX
- Reinvestment
Net Cashflow
Cash In Bank
1.Kill rent and salaries.Transform
your business model.
2.Productivity of OPEX, GP per
Marketing sales, anyone?
3. Outsource early on, insource later
19. How much
should you
pay to remain
relevant?
Total Market
x Market Share
Revenue
-COGS
Gross Profit
-OPEX
- Reinvestment
Net Cashflow
Cash In Bank
21. 1.Choose a Total Market that is big and growing fast likeAI
and Advanced Machine Learning, from $420Mln in 2014 to
$5.05Bln in 2020
2. Plan to grab Market Share of 10% and a winner take-all
mentality via networking effects, like Uber
3. Score high on the digitality spectrum, and plan for a GP
Margin of 80%+
4. Remember the CCC rules, always find ways toget paidbefore
youpay.Adopta customer funding mindset
5.Aim forOPEX at 20% of Revenue, and reduce it initially by
outsourcing
6. Combine networking effects and low reinvestment rates to
set yourself up for scalability
7. Aim for the upside, protect the downside. Observe the 20%
rule of costs and revenue.