David Evanson

How VCs Analyze Financials: Part II, Statement of Cashflows

If you have historical financial statements, your would-be venture capital investor will take high interest in them. VCs typically look at financial statements differently than other investors, and certainly differently than a lender would. This three part series will look at the three primary elements: income statement, balance sheet and statement of cashflows. Part one, […]

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Use Your Perch To Get Media Exposure 

All businesses occupy a perch. By that, I mean the manner in which their business operates throws off data that sheds light on their industry, competitors, suppliers or customers. Here’s some examples: • The number of times men click the profiles of fair-haired women on match.com answers the question whether or not gentleman do prefer blonds. Similarly

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What Might Happen in 2016

Twitter will be acquired.  Wall Street loves a good story, but it hates losses.  With half a billion in losses in 2014, and the company on track to lose more this year than last, somebody is going to pull the plug.   Parenthetical prediction:  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will not survive the year and focus on

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A Christmas Story

Just a few weeks before Christmas, I was a volunteer at a holiday party for underprivileged children.  Underprivileged isn’t my word.  To get to the party they had to be identified as ‘at risk’ by their teachers. I was helping my friend Carol who had been a volunteer at the event for several years and

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The Spouting Whale Gets Harpooned

With his high profile arrest and perp walk this morning, Martin Shkreli has a massive public relations problem on his hands.  As the photo demonstrates, the full force of the law is lined up against him. Mr. Shkreli is the hedge fund manager turned pharmaceutical entrepreneur who provoked outrage when his Turing Pharmaceuticals increased the

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