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📊 EBITDA Positive ≠ Profitable: The Startup Illusion/delusion EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization) is just a fancy term used to prevent yourself to be called loss making and shows reduced losses 1. Depreciation

🚨 Critical Startup Metrics VCs look for ➨ When securing venture capital, 4 key metrics are essential at EVERY stage of a startup's growth: • Revenue • Net Burn Rate • Full-time Employee Headcount • Gross Margin ➨ Cash is king in early stages but

Startup folks - if you aren’t funded, stop paying money to social media influencers / YouTubers to promote your product or services. It is just vanity. 80% of the time, it does not give you good returns. Stick to Google ads. Not saying they are p

Startups rarely die because of competition. Most die because of avoidable financial mistakes. The worst one I have seen- 👉 Mixing personal & buisness money 👉 Ignoring Taxes 👉 Burning cash on vanity expenses 👉 Bad or missing contracts 👉 Legal c

Everyone wants FUNDING Lets address the Elephant in the room Funding ≠ Success 💰Myth:More funding=guaranteed success. Reality: 70% of startups fail despite funding in 2-5 years(ex:Byju's huge funding and name like SRK) What matters more: 1️⃣Pro

"Revenue is Vanity, Profit is Sanity, But Cash is King." 👑 A Lesson Every Founder Must Learn. There's a famous saying in business that every founder needs to tape to their monitor: "Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, but cash is king." It's easy

🚨 What the heck is Funding-Market Fit? I learned it the hard way. When I started building my travel-tech idea, I got pulled into “startup paperwork mode”: 👉 Should we register as Pvt Ltd or LLP? 👉 What about compliance costs? 👉 Do we need a CA o

I got some questions, And I will ask some of them in this post. 1. From where VCs are getting funded? 2. Piyush Goyal Sir was Right Or Wrong? 3. Why are MSME Businesses not getting a spotlight? 4. Why is Cash Burning getting promoted? Still I g

Why One Startup Got Funded & The Other Didn’t? 🚀💰 Recently, I validated two pitch decks. One secured funding, while the other is still seeking investors. The difference? Smart financial planning vs. unnecessary burn. ✅ Funded Startup: 🔹 Allocat