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July 03 2010

05:03

Indinero: A Realtime Financial Dashboard for Small Businesses


Web technology has revolutionized finance by making it easier than ever to monitor cash flow and track trends in your spending. Mint.com has been a leader in this realm for personal finance: its technology helps you track multiple accounts, analyze spending trends, and manage financial goals.

There isn’t a clear counterpart to Mint for businesses, though. That’s where inDinero, a Y-Combinator-funded startup, comes in.

inDinero, which launches today, is a web-based financial dashboard for small businesses. Like Mint, it aggregates financial data from bank accounts, investments, and other sources and places them in a simple, easy-to-navigate interface where you can quickly see your income, spending, recent activity, and your financial runway.

The app is divided into five parts: Dashboard, Income, Spending, Planning and Trends. Dashboard provides an overview of your business finances, Income provides detailed information about your income streams, Spending breaks down your different costs, Planning helps you set goals for your business, and Trends analyzes and graphs out spending and income trends in order to provide useful insights.

Businesses need this type of information in order to minimize costs while maximizing revenues. While solutions such as Mint also aggregate financial information and analyze it, they are not focused on small businesses. We look forward to seeing inDinero’s business toolset grow and evolve.

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June 07 2010

12:30

MBA Mondays Explains Important Numbers and Concepts for Startups [Startups]

MBA Mondays Explains Important Numbers and Concepts for StartupsVenture capitalist Fred Wilson is well known in tech circles for his regular blogging and free advice. He's just wrapped up his "MBA Mondays" series, and it's full of good advice for those looking to start their own business, tech or otherwise.

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Wilson basically covers all the questions that an investor, a consultant, or an accountant would ask a business owner to answer in founding and running their company. It's an overview of the kind of courses they teach in basic accounting or business courses at college, but written with a far less stern and academic tone. In The Balance Sheet, for example, Wilson explains the most important items on a balance sheet and how the numbers fit together, even running some quick numbers on Google's balance sheet. Less math-y topics, like forecasting and marketing, are also covered.

Wilson's MBA Mondays is a good read for anyone thinking about, or in the process of, breaking free and starting their own firm, no matter what the product or service. Got another great read or resource? Link it up in the comments.

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