Joe Knight is a Harvard business best-selling Author and Founder of Setpoint Systems and the Business Literacy Institute. He provides venture capital seed money and enjoys mentoring startups.
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3) Always look at your cash flow to evaluate how well you’re doing.
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Show Notes
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[00:50] – Everything that’s happened in Joe’s career started with SetPoint
[01:03] – His goal was to make SetPoint an open financial company
[01:26] – He developed a methodology for teaching finance—this led to him writing a best-selling book, Financial Intelligence
[02:13] – Joe was on Episode 245 of Entrepreneurs On Fire
[02:42] – His area of expertise is in understanding how to make money in a business
[03:38] – Share something we don’t know about your area of expertise that as Entrepreneurs, we probably should: Unlike what management believes, many executives don’t understand finance on a basic level, so Joe and his team developed a questionnaire to help them
[05:38] – Joe is involved in several businesses, including a small medical group that is trying to build a cash-only doctors’ medical network
[06:52] – The only reason you start a business is to make money
[07:38] – “If you can’t make money, your dream will never be realized”
[08:13] – Founders need to understand that they need someone on their team to help them grow a profit
[09:30] – Two engineers came to Joe to build a partnership with him because they needed a transparent financial system in place—this is what led Joe to start teaching finance
[13:53] – Private equity group project
[14:31] – Angel investors project
[15:00] – Between the two, there are different points in the deal
[15:36] – When making a deal, make sure you work with someone who knows your industry
[16:09] – Any business owner SHOULD focus on EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization)
[16:55] – “If your business is $1M EBITDA and your multiple in your industry is about 5, chances are groups will offer you $5M or 5 times your EBITDA, subject to an audit called due diligence”
[17:14] – The second method is discounted cashflow – the EBITDA forecast for future cashflows will be discounted through NPV (net present value)
[19:10] – What is the one thing you are most FIRED up about today? “I’m most fired up about all the business opportunities out there”
[19:43] – “Profit is NOT cash”
[20:54] – Everybody focuses on profit and EBITDA but really, the focus should be on one’s cash flow
[21:20] – Cash flow shows on the balance sheet and cannot be cheated
[22:16] – Check out Joe’s book, Financial Intelligence, and his website, Business-Literacy
[22:54] – “If you’re profitable, your idea will live”
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