Burn Rate Cost Vertical 
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) Sales people cost money, and when they’re not bringing in revenue, their wandering in the woods is time consuming, cash-draining and demoralizing. Who recommends a sale?
Up and Running
OCTOBER 7, 2019
A data-driven approach can help you make accurate and timely business decisions to meet market demands and improve cost-efficiency. Activation rate: measures how many visitors are engaging with your website or app. ROI: measures the effectiveness of your marketing initiatives by comparing conversion values to costs. Sales KPIs.
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Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
Customer Development is Low Burn by Design The Customer Development process keeps a startup at a low cash burn rate until the company has validated its business model by finding paying customers.
Steve Blank
APRIL 20, 2009
An interesting phenomena of the 1920s that illustrates the fragility and cost of vacuum tubes is the “Reflex Receiver&# design methodology. There are serious negative trade-off costs with using reflex designs but compared to the economic costs of each vacuum tube, it was a justified trade-off. to do that.
VC Cafe
JULY 6, 2010
It also has synching services that usually cost money. Our burn rate is very low and the technology is very scalable. We have indirect competitors in each of those verticals. The problem of iTunes, Picasa and Bitorrent is that they are designed to the desktop. Libox is designed for integration for all your devices.
Steve Blank
MAY 15, 2009
The startup guys should have taken the hint that their burn rate was likely inappropriate (read: out of control). Are his costs in control? It’s a company that’s lost sight of the values that got it there. Don’t let it happen to you. Stay hungry, stay lean. Lessons Learned N ew buildings are a distraction.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
The Startup Death Spiral: The Cost of Getting Product Launch Wrong By the time of first customer ship, if a startup does not understand its market and customers, failure unfolds in a stylized ritual, almost like a Japanese Noh play.
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