Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Your burn rate is the rate at which that money is being spent, and allows an estimate of how long you can go before refueling. Investors look at your burn rate to see how efficient and effective you are at running the business. For obvious reasons, you need to keep your burn rate low. Marty Zwilling.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Andy Dunn , who I only know indirectly, wrote an important book titled Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind. While there might be other entrepreneur autobiographies like Burn Rate , I can’t think of any. The post Book: Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind appeared first on Brad Feld.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall. It doesn’t take a financial genius to recognize that you need to keep your burn rate low. Cashflow out equates to burn rate, and the runway depends on your reserves.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2017

One of the hardest decisions entrepreneurs make when they start a company and raise outside capital is figuring out what an acceptable “burn rate” is. The main reason to know your burn is to arrive at a quick calculation of how many months cash you have before you run out of cash.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2020

From my perspective as an investor, I recommend that every founder needs to know the answers to these questions, be open and honest in answering them thoughtfully, and without making excuses: What is the current runway and burn rate?

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Up and Running

APRIL 6, 2020

This can be a daunting task, but the best place to start is understanding and calculating your cash burn rate and your cash runway. How do you calculate the burn rate? This total number is your Gross Burn Rate. Gross burn rate = (Total variable expenses + Total fixed expenses).

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 17, 2022

What they really meant was that they enjoyed a lifestyle that was built around fees in addition to profit sharing, had a high personal burn rate, and were risk averse to putting more of their capital in the game. In many cases this was kind of a b t answer to be honest. Nice things are nice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

From my perspective as an investor, I recommend that every founder needs to know the answers to these questions, be open and honest in answering them thoughtfully, and without making excuses: What is the current runway and burn rate?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2019

Keep Cash Burn Low. Every startup, no matter how small or large, should have a clear understanding of its burn rate. The first step is to calculate your burn rate. The second step is to lower your burn rate and effectively increase the longevity of your startup. Here are some ways you can do this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall. It doesn’t take a financial genius to recognize that you need to keep your burn rate low. Cash flow out equates to burn rate, and the runway depends on your reserves.

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Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

These bubble startups were actually guessing at their business model and did premature and aggressive hype and early company launches and had extremely high burn rates – all predicated on an IPO to raise more cash. Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

Founder: “$8–10 million” VC: “What’s your current burn rate?” VC: “So at a constant rate of burn rate you’d be raising enough for 2.5–3 I built a “plan b,” which in this case just holds burn rate constant at $350k and has you out of cash in month 19, which gives you more runway. Founder: “Um.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

They can iterate and evolve their business idea with a low burn rate and minimal dependencies. Most of these scenarios involve attracting outside investors, strategic partners, or key team members: You are the team and you don’t need outside funding. You’ve built a successful startup before, and plan to use the same investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The startup industry may be “resetting,” which doesn’t mean a “crash” but rather just a resetting of valuations, timescales, winners/losers, capital sources and the relative emphasis of growth rates vs. burn rates.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

The questions every startup or small business CEO needs to ask now are: What’s my Burn Rate and Runway? Burn Rate and Runway. To answer the first question, take stock of your current gross burn rate i.e. how much cash are you spending each month. What does your new business model look like? How do you know?

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

Startups operate quickly – at a speed driven by the urgency of a proverbial gun-to-their-head called “burn rate.” their burn rate (the amount of money they’re spending monthly minus any revenue coming in) and. . —– Urgency Drives Innovation Speed.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

You have cash in the bank, a monthly burn rate and a “cash out” date that few in the company truly comprehend. When you run a startup you’re always on borrowed time. I’ve never met a founder who wasn’t acutely aware of his or her ticking time bomb and the sense that failure and humiliation is a real possibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Compensation and support carried the corporate burden rate. The burn rate was extremely high, with no one working for equity or deferred compensation. Required pivots and budged changes are painfully slow and over-analyzed.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Fixed overhead for salaries, rent, equipment leases and more make up the majority of the “burn rate” (monthly expenses) for most companies. But first… There is a relationship between time and money that is more complex than most managers think.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

Compounding the problem, founders often ramp up expenses and their burn rate as they collect fundraising debt, always expecting better performance to be just around the corner, and being prepared for the next round. .

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VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

In fact, they were screaming at them to dramatically reduce their burn rates. Angel investment, which was small to start with, disappeared, and most corporate VCs shut down. VC’s were no longer insisting that startups spend faster, and “swing for the fences”. It was a nuclear winter for startup capital.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

High burn-rates fueled by over investment – One of the most damning things that happened to the start-up markets in 97-00 and 05-08 was the overfunding of technology companies. Bu when you start to worry that the world is ending (as it seemed it was in late 2008 / early 2009) you tend to get worried about large burn rates.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

While additional personnel is crucial to scale the product, misaligned hires will increase burn rate without a concurrent jump in productivity and meaningful growth. Avoiding churn is also key in monitoring burn rate.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Six is a Proxy for Burn Rate. Later I realized six salespeople without revenue to match was a proxy for an out of control burn rate that now had the boards serious attention. Sales’ is on the hook for making the numbers and things aren’t looking good. How many salespeople do you have?” Is there a salesperson in Boston?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2016

From my perspective as an investor, I recommend that every founder needs to know the answers to these questions, be open and honest in answering them thoughtfully, and without making excuses: What is the current runway and burn rate?

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Sweat Equity Burn Rate Technical Review Intellectual Property 120

YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2016

Use burn rate as an example. If you don’t understand how much money your company is burning through each month, how can you expect to intelligently talk about your fiscal health? To become part of the surviving half, use these methods to ensure your startup’s structure stands strong. Read your books from cover to cover.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2022

You know you should have been tracking the burn rate, or inventory requirements, or late receivables, but have found yourself totally distracted by a flock of emergency daily issues. They let the burn rate go up too fast, and the business burns down before it really starts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2015

From my perspective as an investor, I recommend that every founder needs to know the answers to these questions, be open and honest in answering them thoughtfully, and without making excuses: What is the current runway and burn rate?

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Technical Review Due Diligence Sweat Equity Burn Rate 120

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

However, there are a number of metrics that every business owner should know, including cash flow, accounts payable, accounts receivable, direct costs, operating margin, net profit, and cash burn rate. What Is Cash Burn Rate? Cash burn rate is the rate at which a company uses up its cash reserves or cash balance.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Speed keeps cash burn rate down while allowing you to converge on a repeatable and scalable business model. The emphasis on the rapid development and iteration of MVP’s is to speed up how fast you can learn ; from customers, partners, network scale, adoption, etc. In a startup building MVP’s is what turns theory into practice.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

In SaaS the main benchmarks being measured are revenue growth, sales efficiency (unit economics), churn and burn rate. Rob Go: How Much Traction Do You Really Need to Raise a Seed or Series A Round? Software as a Service (Saas) benchmarks. One of my favourite resources for SaaS benchmarking is The SaaS Napkin by Point Nine Capital.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

90 days later, I found out our games are terrible, no one is buying them, our best engineers started leaving, and with 120 people and a huge burn rate, we’re running out of money and about to crash. This can’t be happening to me. Stage 2: Deny any of it was your fault.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As a first time founder, having a few million dollars in the bank after a successful seed raise may seem like a huge amount of capital, and it’s easy to lose discipline around your burn rate.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 6, 2024

Burn Rate Definition: Burn rate is the rate at which a startup is spending its capital to finance operations before generating positive cash flow. Benchmark: Serena Capital advises B2B SaaS startups to target a gross margin of 80% or higher to demonstrate the scalability and profitability of their business model.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2020

Analyze your ongoing burn-rate in both normal scenarios and ‘bear-bones’ scenarios. Consider where you can optimize your burn rate. Here are seven best pieces of advice for anyone running their own business right now. Look at where your business is spending, and consider which expenses are.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2022

Then you walk the delicate balance between burn rates, revenue flows versus expenses, investment in marketing, and employees. Both risks and opportunities in this area can arise from many aspects of your startup, before and after product development. First you need to assess the risks and value of investor funding and carrying debt.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 18, 2022

You Might Learn About Entrepreneurship Reading Andy Dunn’s Burn Rate But You’ll Learn Much More About Being Human. You see, my purchase of Andy Dunn’s Burn Rate was primarily to be supportive (I like him), and this past spring, it went from its Amazon package to a ‘Later’ pile in my office. For himself. I’ve lived this.

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