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. Managing investors is a distraction from your core business. Sometimes survival requires staying under the radar.

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Bootstrapping Entrepreneur Startup Burn Rate 276

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. Managing investors is a distraction from your core business. Sometimes survival requires staying under the radar.

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Startup Burn Rate Bootstrapping Valuation 264

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. The second phase will be who can get the right combination lean back, lean forward, interaction, enhanced data, and make it fun. They had a very expensive burn rate at the wrong time. How does someone get access to you? (22:00-33:00).

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

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. Managing investors is a distraction from your core business. Sometimes survival requires staying under the radar.

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Bootstrapping Entrepreneur Startup Burn Rate 191

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. This post describes a solution – the Customer Development Model. all while saying “we’ll make it up later.”

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Up and Running

APRIL 2, 2020

If you’re looking for a place to start, I suggest focusing on effectively managing your cash flow. Instead, start with the quick and easy lean business plan , to help you map out your business and financing activities over the next few months. If you don’t, now is the perfect time to set up a business plan and forecast.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Our business continued to succeed and fortunately the management team agreed to keep their eyes on the ball of running the company while Mark and the board focused on investors. We had grown into a more reasonable burn rate so raising capital meant we would have many years of cash on the balance sheet.

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Balance Sheet Burn Rate Valuation Forecast 150

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

He was using 3 rd parties to build his app but he had no expertise on how to manage external developers. As the miles sped by I explained to Dave that he had understood only two of the three parts of what makes a Lean Startup successful. His inability to attract a co-founder who could code was a troubling sign.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. 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. The Rise of the Lean Startup. And it may work. IPOs dried up.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Nelson has some tips: Know your burn rate. Buffer helps you with managing and scheduling your social media posts. Mailchimp and Mandrill are leaders in newsletter management. Unfuddle allows development teams to easily collaborate on product management. How do you balance it all? Look inward.

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Bootstrapping Cofounder Portland Burn Rate 107

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 3, 2019

They’re not only leading larger rounds, but may need to bridge companies they’ve otherwise made large investments into that have higher burn rates. They hold their cash back until they have more data, and lean in as a company is outperforming. Funds that lead Series A, B, and C rounds have serious capital needs.

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Portfolio Burn Rate LP Distribution 110

Mucker Lab

MARCH 8, 2016

We’ve written code, launched products, acquired users, managed P&Ls, and lost sleep over making payroll. We’ve been on founding teams and worked from entry level through executive management. We’ve ridden the ups and downs of economic cycles. We are consumed with generating great returns for our limited partners.

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Burn Rate Limited Partner Bootstrapping Portfolio 60

Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

. * By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. But in fact, most startups need to keep their burn rate low more [.] Who would have known?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. Great product managers who are not great business people still often fail. Too aggressive about the rate of customer adoption? They are not just for fund raising.

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Business Plan AJAX Venture Capital Technical Review 334

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2019

Start Lean. As tempting as it can be to do everything at once, be patient and start lean. . Building a lean business with lean products ensures you don’t pigeon-hole yourself into a situation where you’re unable to back your way out. Keep Cash Burn Low. The first step is to calculate your burn rate.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

We hired an interior designer and a great facilities person to manage the process. If the management team is thinking they’ve made it, the new building is just symptomatic of a company heading for a crash. Stay hungry, stay lean. I don’t want to be hungry and lean (nor do I want to be full and fat).

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 2, 2011

At the same time, the foursquare team was incredibly skilled at applying lean start-up best practices, specifically: Product-obsessed founders : both Dennis and Naveen were consumed with the product. Modest burn : the company only raised $1.35 Monetization. But it's not a binary decision.

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API Valuation Lean Burn Rate 44

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

And even worse, wed cranked up the burn rate in order to be ready to handle all those millions of mainstream customers we anticipated. We didnt manage todo that yet. I think it comes down to managing risk. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Its just impossible. we are never ready. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2011

These include: Managers delegate real work. The result is a startup with an exorbitant burn rate, and a very unhappy entrepreneur. Manage a team rather than work with a team. In a startup, these don’t exist, and you have forgotten about how to self-learn, and there are no in-house experts to lean on.

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Startup Burn Rate Salary Lean 258

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2013

These include: Managers delegate real work. The result is a startup with an exorbitant burn rate, and a very unhappy entrepreneur. Manage a team rather than work with a team. In a startup, these don’t exist, and you have forgotten about how to self-learn, and there are no in-house experts to lean on.

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Entrepreneur Burn Rate Salary Lean 239

Mucker Lab

MAY 28, 2020

This post originally appeared in TechCrunch back in 2015, written by our co-founder and managing partner Erik Rannala. Or, you feel like you have so much cash that you can afford to burn it until your original idea eventually works. Sometimes founders misapply lean startup methodology. Funding can fuel both flawed mindsets.

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Startup Cofounder Burn Rate Technical Review 78

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2012

These include: Managers delegate real work. The result is a startup with an exorbitant burn rate, and a very unhappy entrepreneur. Manage a team rather than work with a team. In a startup, these don’t exist, and you have forgotten about how to self-learn, and there are no in-house experts to lean on.

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Burn Rate Startup Salary Lean 233

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2010

These include: Managers delegate real work. The result is a startup with an exorbitant burn rate, and a very unhappy entrepreneur. Manage a team rather than work with a team. In a startup, these don’t exist, and you have forgotten about how to self-learn, and there are no in-house experts to lean on.

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Entrepreneur Burn Rate Salary Lean 230

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2021

Much has been written about this subject in the world of manufacturing, stemming primarily from the 1990’s work by Taiichi Ohno, called the Toyota Production System (“Lean”). More recently, the concepts have been applied to the general business management context, in a classic book by Certified Turnaround Professional, Thomas H.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2013

These include: Managers delegate real work. The result is a startup with an exorbitant burn rate, and a very unhappy entrepreneur. Manage a team rather than work with a team. In a startup, these don’t exist, and you have forgotten about how to self-learn, and there are no in-house experts to lean on.

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Entrepreneur Burn Rate Salary Lean 182

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

It’s a pain to manage payroll, unemployment, insurance, etc in one state. It’s a freaking nightmare to manage in three states (well, two states and a district), even though we paid a payroll service to take care of it. Nearly everyone thinks they can give good management tips. Post-Mortem Title : Untitled Partners Post-Mortem.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

You really have to lean in and say, "Okay. There's a product manager at 3M that knows the N95 mask business inside and out, domestically and globally. If they would have just had their head of supply chain, their product manager for the N95s, just go out there and talk to everybody, to share data with other manufacturers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

The passionate early adopters who flocked to the product at its launch could not sustain this outsized burn rate. As we move into a new economic climate, its my hope that our industry will stop this expensive kind of learning and start building lean startups instead. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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