The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A startup usually can't afford to establish a complete finance organization with accountants, controllers, planners, and tax specialists right from the beginning. To establish an effective finance function for a startup, the process can be divided into three stages.

Startups 52

Startups Finance CFO Forecasting 52

PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

It’s what you do with the data, and how you leverage it into new customer-facing offerings that matters. There are a whole range of forward-thinking firms leveraging application programming interfaces (APIs) to issue cards, to create virtual accounts, promote micro-lending and micro-saving and even pay workers — all in bits and bytes. “Our

Banking 92

Banking Accounting Concentration Leverage 92

CFO Share

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Using the agency’s established entity, you also avoid the lengthy and expensive startup expenses. However, the agency’s fees may eclipse any one-time startup costs over time. It is particularly suitable for companies needing to scale operations cost-effectively, such as startups or those with project-based needs.

Cost Management 52

Cost Management Compliance Startups Budgeting 52

PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

FinTech investments targeting B2B and corporate services spanned the globe, with particular concentration this past week in SMB lending across India and Europe. In Singapore, Aspire , a startup geared toward helping smaller firms access working capital, raised $32.5 FinTech startup ePayRails said it has garnered $2.5

B2B 46

B2B Accounts Payable Concentration Leverage 46

Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In 2023, the lab honed its focus to concentrate on startups between seed and Series A funding stages. The lab, which had previously nurtured 76 startups, invested 500,000 Brazilian reais (approximately $91,000) in each of the six startups accelerated last year. Thus far, 64 startups have graduated from the lab.

Startups 52

Startups Banking Finance Technology 52

PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2017

Leveraging mobile payments, GPS- or Bluetooth-tracking, QR code or other mobile-based authentication and auto-locking kickstands, the next generation of bike-sharing companies in China are ditching the dock in favor of letting riders view available bikes nearest them and reserving one on their phones. sometime soon.

Transportation 48

Transportation Startups Concentration Leverage 48

Global Finance

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This time, the failures disproportionally affected the venture capital-backed tech startup sector that these banks catered to. The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s quick response to the banks’ failures stemmed additional contagion and has left businesses with an object lesson in concentration risk. billion Qatari riyals ($4.25

Banking 111

Banking Foreign Exchange Profit and Loss Finance 111

PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

And perhaps the most famous garage startup story ever is that of Bill Hewlett and David Packard and the garage they rented in 1939 to start the electronics company that would later bear their names. Perhaps leveraging its social networks across all of its platforms around a Marketplace model could be one of those logical paths to explore.

Advertising 51

Advertising Retail eCommerce Startups 51

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 20, 2022

I mean, he actually expected a lot of me, in a very loving, respectful way, but he was teaching me kind of the power of concentration and focus. Once in a while, a high profile star like Paul Newman or somebody might leverage their way into directing something. ALISON BEARD: At what age? RON HOWARD: Eight, nine.

Leadership 100

Leadership Problem Solving Entertainment Startups 100

PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2017

Looking at the geographic concentration of activity, the US was the most active region, with 47 percent of activity, followed by China at 41 percent. First, the company plans to double down on what’s working—funding more subscription based business models and introducing new types of models that leverage OrderGroove’s API. “We

B2C 49

B2C Concentration Retail Leverage 49

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Bitcoin’s infrastructure is highly concentrated and not all that secure. As a result, bitcoin mining is concentrated in two countries : China, with 60 percent, and Georgia , with 15 percent of bitcoin processing power. billion so far this year, while $358 million in venture money went into crypto-fueled startups over that same period.

Currencies 71

Currencies Financial Systems Concentration Securities 71

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

And most people think of Bill, his bread and butter business is activist, very concentrated stock investing, but he has a bit of a background in macro too, back from ’07, ’08, and he actually decides to do this in the credit markets, where spreads are incredibly tight. Okay, how do I express it? Wow, this is kind of fun.

Treasury 52

Treasury Retail Economics Entertainment 52

The Big Picture

JULY 8, 2025

Kind of a weird marketing decision on that part, but you know, the, the, the business started to change and a number of the partners like broke off and started Silver Oak, which focused on leverage buyout firms. It does feel the largest in part because I’ve been so concentrated on being an investor over the course of my career.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 10

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Economics Numbers 10

CFO Plans

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Financial Planning for Startups The bedrock of any thriving business is robust financial planning for startups. Consider embracing a detailed budget that anticipates both immediate and long-term financial requisites, ensuring your startup remains nimble and ready for any monetary hurdles.

Budgeting 52

Budgeting Startups CFO Concentration 52

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 10, 2024

You begin at a few tech startups, you found Dex, which eventually gets acquired by Lotus. What was the startup process like? One, two, there was a theory that these businesses had volatile cash flows and therefore couldn’t be leveraged, which was the, you know, the whole point of leveraged buyouts.

Technology 52

Technology Manufacturing Investments Education 52

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

That seems like there’s endless amounts of money around and, and no shortage of people willing to, to fund startups. So, so does that create opportunities for other companies to come in and be in disrupt disruptors, or are are they sort of blocking the, the entranceway to new startups that want to compete in that same space?

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Investments Numbers Marketing 52