Financial Levers for Startups: The Art of Mobilizing Resources – Ikigai Colors
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April 26, 2024, 11:09 a.m.
The challenge for young innovative companies is to mobilize talents and scarce assets while having limited resources. Your ability to generate a substantial operating cash surplus and mobilize other sources of funding is crucial, encouraging a focus on high-margin activities with reduced working capital needs. Selling non-strategic assets can be a source of exceptional proceeds, while grants and debt utilization will be constrained by your equity. Lastly, even though capital injections are virtually limitless, bringing in investors requires a balance between realism, ambition, and sharing power, gains, and/or future profits.