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. And we were able to secure that investment along with a partner from that firm joining our board. The financial pain of unplanned delays.

Silicon Valley 118

Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 118

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Henrik Werdelin , the Managing Partner of Prehype , a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable , Barkbox , FancyHands , Basno and Path , says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. 1) Twitter. 4) WhatsApp.

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Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 168

Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Fixed overhead for salaries, rent, equipment leases and more make up the majority of the “burn rate” (monthly expenses) for most companies. And we were able to secure that investment along with a partner from that firm joining our board.

Silicon Valley 97

Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 97

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

If a brand-name VC is an investor, it means that at one time one single partner at the firm saw enough promise in the venture to make a bet on it – it doesn’t mean that a company is doing well now. What is the burn rate and how much cash is in the bank now?

Startup 146

Startup Burn Rate Technical Review Down Round 146

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

A great finance leader is on top of your numbers with such precision that you don’t have to worry about it. But a great finance leader isn’t just budgeting but he or she is an consummate planning and they won’t take s**t from you about why you need to avoid hiring more staff until you close new contracts or raise money.

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Operations Metrics Early Stage Non-Compete 150

Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

Fixed overhead for salaries, rent, equipment leases and more make up the majority of the “burn rate” (monthly expenses) for most companies. And we were able to secure that investment along with a partner from that firm joining our board. Email readers continue here.]

Silicon Valley 85

Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 85

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

He knows how to advise entrepreneurs on hiring/firing, running teams, managing funding, when/how to control burn rate, and making other tough management decisions in the real environment of startups. How do I measure my partners and myself? The board members were nice, friendly cheerleaders. I was almost isolated in my view.

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Burn Rate Hiring Engineer Entrepreneur 87

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Jussi Laakkonen , CEO & founder of Applifie, summarized it well: We recently raised our seed round at Applifier and it was led by a silicon valley seed fund MHS Capital, whose general partner is Mark Sugarman. R&D outside SV is normally cheaper, so it helps you keeping your burn rate low. And what do the investors think?

Silicon Valley 104

Silicon Valley Startup Seed Stage Delaware 104

David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Sean Colrock, Director of Client Partnerships at Wiss & Company , suggests at a minimum you track: cash on hand; fume date; and burn rate. Peter Nesbitt, VP of Finance at Teampay , said, “Forecasting is exceptionally challenging in practice, especially as end users drive an era of distributed spending.

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Agile Management Forecast Silicon Valley 60

Mucker Lab

MAY 28, 2020

This post originally appeared in TechCrunch back in 2015, written by our co-founder and managing partner Erik Rannala. More and more investors have begun to shun high burn rates. We believe the message applies as much today as it did in 2015 when it was published. --. To be clear, I’m not suggesting that you stockpile capital.

Startup 78

Startup Cofounder Burn Rate Technical Review 78

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

Often when startups who have raised venture capital need another round of financing they will turn to their existing investors to give them money before raising from outsiders. a loan) that is later converted to equity at the time of the next financing. You’ve kept a really low burn rate and paid yourself a very small salary.

Startup 290

Startup Burn Rate Warrant Bankruptcy 290

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Who are our partners? How do we finance the company, etc. Regardless of your type of business model you should be tracking cash burn rate, months of cash left, time to cash flow breakeven. As a founder you are testing a series of hypotheses about all the pieces of the business model: Who are the customers/users?

Balance Sheet 307

Balance Sheet Startup Burn Rate Metrics 307

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

I notice some founders (from YC in particular) have been trained to say something like: “we are just starting the process, but things are moving faster than we expect and we are already scheduling follow-up conversations and partner meetings.”. Some founders lay out a specific time frame for when they hope to get the round closed.

Term Sheet 364

Term Sheet Burn Rate Founder Partner 364

View from Seed

OCTOBER 15, 2014

This is pulled from NextView’s board deck resource, which was compiled using a combination of real startup board decks and input from NextView’s founding partners: Rob Go , David Beisel , and Lee Hower. Finance is mission critical, for instance – it just appears on a recurring basis.

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Seed Stage Cap Table Metrics Burn Rate 331

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Focusing on the burn rate and prioritizing every possible expense will keep overhead down, help you stay lean, and achieve a higher profit earlier. The best partners are ones who share costs and risks. You will squeeze harder on your own dollars than investor dollars. Sometimes survival requires staying under the radar.

Bootstrapping 276

Bootstrapping Entrepreneur Startup Burn Rate 276

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. 3) An experienced board brings an extensive network of customers, partners, help in recruiting, follow-on financing, etc. From a VC’s point of view there are two reasons for board meetings.

Silicon Valley 300

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 300

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2013

Focusing on the burn rate and prioritizing every possible expense will keep overhead down, help you stay lean, and achieve a higher profit earlier. The best partners are ones who share costs and risks. You will squeeze harder on your own dollars than investor dollars. Sometimes survival requires staying under the radar.

Startup 264

Startup Burn Rate Bootstrapping Valuation 264

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. 3) An experienced board brings an extensive network of customers, partners, help in recruiting, follow-on financing, etc. From a VC’s point of view there are two reasons for board meetings.

Silicon Valley 273

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 273

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Rely on informal agreements with partners. The same principles apply to strategic partners. Later, when your venture is trying to close on financing, or even going public, that forgotten partner surfaces, demanding their original share. Make it a rule to not fraternize with your employees, and choose your partners wisely.

Entrepreneur 274

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property LLC Burn Rate 274

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2014

Rely on informal agreements with partners. The same principles apply to strategic partners. Later, when your venture is trying to close on financing, or even going public, that forgotten partner surfaces, demanding their original share. Make it a rule to not fraternize with your employees, and choose your partners wisely.

Startup 265

Startup Intellectual Property LLC Burn Rate 265

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Here are some observations I have from this exposure: If a company moves from strength-to-strength with predictable outcomes, easy financings, low staff turn-over, limited competitive threats then the composition of the board probably doesn’t matter as much. What are the kinds of difficult tasks that need to be solved by boards?

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LP Startup Burn Rate Stock Options 269

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

For a more elaborate explanation of the deal, please read my blog post 1M/1M: Alternative Financing For Startups Using A Sales Channel Partner. Jeff has managed to keep his burn rate very low thus far, and a slow and steady crafting of the business is working nicely. The business is already profitable with $2.9

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Dilution Revenue Finance Entrepreneur 114

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Historically, different financial institutions specialized in different stages, because the assessment of risk and opportunity was considered unique at each stage — for example, a seed investor was unlikely to do late-stage financing, and vice versa. Some have argued that each of these companies would already be public in a prior era.

IPO 40

IPO Liquidation Preference Valuation Technical Review 40

Gust

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Focusing on the burn rate and prioritizing every possible expense will keep overhead down, help you stay lean, and achieve a higher profit earlier. The best partners are ones who share costs and risks. You will squeeze harder on your own dollars than investor dollars. Sometimes survival requires staying under the radar.

Bootstrapping 191

Bootstrapping Entrepreneur Startup Burn Rate 191

Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

My partner in Menlo Incubator , Gary Kremen , and I had a recent debate on which one of us hates convertible debt more. This will also serve as a good pointer for all the entrepreneurs who ask why I am not interested in their company led convertible note financing round. In cases where it is truly a bridge financing (i.e.

San Jose 36

San Jose Technical Review Angel Investor Valuation 36

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

.” There are a lot of data points that one can observer to get a sense of the venture capital markets – both LP fundings into venture and VC financings of startups. They point to some widely known facts: financings & valuations are up massively over the past 7 years and non-VC money has entered the system.

LP 150

LP Valuation Burn Rate Pre-Money Valuation 150

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. By January of 2016, that number had ballooned to 229.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2008

The spring semester of my Entrepreneurial Finance class starts tomorrow. We will also look at a variety of financing methods including venture capital, angel investing, licensing, franchising, roll-up, venture debt and my old favorite, bootstrapping. Labels: entrepreneur , entrepreneurial finance course , venture capital.

San Jose 28

San Jose Technical Review Angel Investor Venture Capital 28

Gust

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Rely on informal agreements with partners. The same principles apply to strategic partners. Later, when your venture is trying to close on financing, or even going public, that forgotten partner surfaces, demanding their original share. Make it a rule to not fraternize with your employees, and choose your partners wisely.

Startup 183

Startup Intellectual Property LLC Burn Rate 183

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This past year was also the year that startup boards also got more disciplined about containing burn rates and pushing for companies to be run more pragmatically. So if funding from VCs slowed, valuations dropped and burn rates were slashed, WTF happened to winter again? or Walmart buying Jet for $3 billion.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Saudi Arabia Kuwait Burn Rate 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Mark dutifully went to partner meetings, back-channel references began, firms started calling existing VCs to “test prices” and we started debating whom our best partner would be. We had grown into a more reasonable burn rate so raising capital meant we would have many years of cash on the balance sheet.

Balance Sheet 150

Balance Sheet Burn Rate Valuation Forecast 150

Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? ► October. (1). Watch Out for the Red W(h)ine. ► September. (1). ► July. (1).

Bootstrapping 28

Bootstrapping San Jose Silicon Valley Angel Investor 28

Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Part of it was the out of the box thinking and turning the typical venture investment thesis upside down. ► October. (1).

Technical Review 31

Technical Review Due Diligence Silicon Valley San Jose 31

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Once the point is reached where you want to move ahead, we put the sales hat on and convince our partners about the incredible opportunity that we are lucky enough to be able to invest on the ground floor. This was the beginning of the dot com bust and getting a consumer deal through the partners at my venture firm was next to impossible.

San Jose 31

San Jose Technical Review Venture Capital Angel Investor 31

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

If you have a reputation for cutting corners, not treating employees or partners right, it will become very difficult to do business. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

San Jose 43

San Jose Silicon Valley Las Vegas Venture Capital 43

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. Metric Unremarkable Good Excellent Outlier ARR <$500k $500k-$1.5m $1.5m-$2.5m >$2.5m

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B2B Burn Rate Generative AI Retention 97

Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Nelson has some tips: Know your burn rate. And this isn’t just for your business, but as many startup founders know, your personal finances can matter just as much (especially if you aren’t profitable yet). Partner well. Inspiration Managing a Business Self-Financing Strategy Success Stories'

Bootstrapping 107

Bootstrapping Cofounder Portland Burn Rate 107