When a company is born, most of the time, it seems that they are judged on the basis of month to month revenues. I am not sure if that will work for long. After the company proves its business plan, by virtue of breaking even, the first thing they need to do is call for a meeting with all their senior management and hands-on board members, and discuss on a plan to stabilize the company. What do I mean by this?

Well, there are companies that make 200K one month, and 0 on the other. That is the most unstable company that you can think of. If that company was on the public market, very few people would take a look at it. In other words, when building a company, you probably need to start looking at it, as if it was in the market, and if so how would you manage its stability.

So, how does one go about it: I’d say, take a graph of revenues, partnerships, deals (enquiries and deals won, along with the percentage ratio of it), number of employees, and profits of the company and plot it on the graph. Do it month per month and make sure that they are rising. If it rises on one month drastically, figure out how to sustain that growth. The keyword here is very much on “sustained growth”. If you can manage that…. I need not say what awaits you.