Topic map / Money and capital
10 questions
Slush’s 2025 survey put revenue growth and fundraising at the top of founder concern. Neither figure is cash in the account. This area keeps contracted, invoiced, collected, and hoped-for financing apart, and it asks about the household.
1.What is the collected balance, and as of which morning?
Pass 2 · strengthened
Do not put conditional interest, a signed obligation, and money you can spend in the same balance.
2.What is contracted but not yet invoiced?
3.What is invoiced but not collected, and how old is the oldest invoice?
4.What financing is still unsigned?
Pass 2 · strengthened
Write the plan in which this round never closes, and name who can still remove each condition.
5.If the largest receipt slips by 90 days, which payment fails?
6.What reserve do you refuse to spend on a new commitment?
7.What household cost is quietly inside the company plan?
8.Who has personally guaranteed a company obligation?
9.What will you not sign until cash is collected?
10.On what date would you tell the team the real cash date?
Startup Struggle Survey 2025 · Slush
Survey of 607 early-stage European founders in Q1 2025. Fundraising was a top concern for 58.1 percent, revenue growth for 52.8 percent (from 36.8 percent), and customer acquisition for about 50 percent. The same page says 18 percent thought it would be easy to raise if they wanted to, and 57 percent disagreed.