Burn Rate Management Product Development 
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 29, 2018
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. Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 14, 2023
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. Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent or looking for the next refueling from investors. Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup.
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Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 19, 2020
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. Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup.
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. Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. Cashflow is a basic survival metric for every startup.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
First Movers” didn’t understand customer problems or the product features that solved those problems (what we now call product-market fit). Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. It has to find product-market fit before running out of cash.
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.) The Customer Development process (and the Lean Startup) is one way to do that. Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.]
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. Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup.
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