Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2009

I just knew that our sales sucked wind and we were burning through tons of cash. I advocated LOUDLY at the board that we needed to cut our burn rate. I walked through my logic, “well, if a customer installs your tool on his website he’s going to have to hire an entire staff to manage the project.

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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. That is, how much should your company be willing to lose in cash every month as you make investments in staff and equipment that funds technology, sales, marketing and management.

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Burn Rate Startup .Net Venture Capital 212

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? Look for examples of similar companies and revenue multiples achieved from acquirers.

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Sweat Equity Burn Rate Technical Review Intellectual Property 120

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? Look for examples of similar companies and revenue multiples achieved from acquirers.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Sweat Equity Burn Rate 120

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies with less than $2 million in revenue were asking for $50-60 million valuations and getting them. I need leaders who manage in good times and bad.To build a large company you need to manage through economic cycles. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. tl;dr summary.

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Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

Up and Running

APRIL 22, 2020

This does not mean that you need 2-3 years’ worth of documents showcasing your revenue and cost of goods sold, but you’ll likely need reports that show at least 12-months of financial activity. Cash flow management is important at any time, and basically provides a snapshot of the health of your business. Poor cash flow.

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SBA Forecast Software Review Business Plan 139

Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

They have fewer cash reserves and less margin of error for managing sudden downturns. The questions every startup or small business CEO needs to ask now are: What’s my Burn Rate and Runway? Burn Rate and Runway. Subtract your monthly gross burn rate from your monthly revenue to get your net burn rate.

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Burn Rate Startup Valuation Sales Cycle 436

David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Instead of budget approvals, monitor key metrics and give managers more flexibility. How should a growth company manage their budget? So here’s the solution I have recommended to some of my portfolio companies: “ agile budgeting ”, i.e., monitoring a few key variables while giving managers significant flexibility.

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Agile Management Forecast Silicon Valley 60

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

For decades startups were managed by pretending the company would follow a predictable path (revenue plan, scale, etc.) As we described in previous posts , startups fail on the day they’re founded if they are organized and managed like they are a small version of a large company. The Revenue Plan – The Third Fatal Assumption.

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Burn Rate Management Business Model Customer Development 253

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Refocusing the Startup Burn Rate Debate | OpenView Blog – crowdspring.co/1n8paLq. 44 engineering management lessons – crowdspring.co/1x7TVkf. 5 Things I Learned Analyzing Buffer’s Revenue Dashboard | Ivan Kreimer – crowdspring.co/1xfTwMG. React – crowdspring.co/1yHa1WB. 1vyIl0B.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 97

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

If you’re running a subscription business , you’ll want to track churn rate, monthly recurring revenue, lifetime value, and so on. 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.

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Metrics Burn Rate .Net Churn Rate 60

Up and Running

APRIL 30, 2020

” It’s been a favorite management tool of mine since my time as VP for a market research firm, and it’s a method I used for decades growing a software company from zero to well over $10 million in annual sales. You have to have good numbers to optimize your management. How to conduct a scenario analysis.

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Forecast Balance Sheet Burn Rate Software Review 120

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

The full formula works like this: runway = cash on hand / burn rate # iterations = runway / speed of each iteration Very few successful companies ended up in the same exact business that the founders thought theyd be in (see Founders at Work for dozens of examples). What counts as an iteration? Were talking PayPal -sized variations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2022

Great entrepreneurs have learned how to realistically assess and manage both sides of the coin in the following business opportunity and risk categories: Strategic. Then you walk the delicate balance between burn rates, revenue flows versus expenses, investment in marketing, and employees. Operational.

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Burn Rate Angel Investor Operations Demand 382

Transformify

AUGUST 27, 2017

Their investors may push them into that direction too, as the high burn rate is often seen as a prerequisite for high growth. You will have more time to focus on the strategy and sales while looking for the right project/ product manager, etc. The downside? Outsource the development of your MVP. The downside?

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Hiring Software Review Burn Rate Startup 64

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. Danielle goes through some commentary from Bill Gurley, Fred Wilson and Marc Andreessen about burn rate and then goes on to discuss her own burn rate and others publicly weigh in.

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Burn Rate Balance Sheet .Net Valuation 383

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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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Get input from analysts, department heads, managers, and other team members that need to act on the information. . For example, leadership can use high-level KPIs to measure the overall performance of the company, and managers can use granular KPIs to gauge the effectiveness of processes, such as sales, marketing, or procurement.

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Founder Retention Metrics Technical Review 71

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Great entrepreneurs have learned how to realistically assess and manage both sides of the coin in the following business opportunity and risk categories: Strategic. Then you walk the delicate balance between burn rates, revenue flows versus expenses, investment in marketing, and employees. Operational.

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Entrepreneur Burn Rate Angel Investor Operations 267

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

70–80% of the costs of most startups are employee costs so what you’re really talking about when a company is unprofitable is that they are growing their staff ahead of their revenue. They don’t want high burn rates but they will never fund slow growth. The Nature of Revenue Matters Of course revenue alone won’t tell you enough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2014

At least wait until later, when you ready to scale, and have some “leverage” based on a proven business model, some real customers, and real revenue. Focusing on the burn rate and prioritizing every possible expense will keep overhead down, help you stay lean, and achieve a higher profit earlier.

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Bootstrapping Entrepreneur Startup Burn Rate 276

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2013

At least wait until later, when you ready to scale, and have some “leverage” based on a proven business model, some real customers, and real revenue. Focusing on the burn rate and prioritizing every possible expense will keep overhead down, help you stay lean, and achieve a higher profit earlier.

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Startup Burn Rate Bootstrapping Valuation 264

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2014

Great entrepreneurs have learned how to realistically assess and manage both sides of the coin in the following business opportunity and risk categories: Strategic. Then you walk the delicate balance between burn rates, revenue flows versus expenses, investment in marketing, and employees. Operational.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

I have discussed at length why revenue sharing channel deals may serve as perfectly fine alternatives to raising equity (or even complements) because of their non-dilutive nature. Jeff has managed to keep his burn rate very low thus far, and a slow and steady crafting of the business is working nicely. million in revenue.

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Dilution Revenue Finance Entrepreneur 114

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.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 30, 2020

Many fail because they fail to keep their burn rate in check and then run out of investors who are willing to fund their operations. They treat their startup’s burn rate like it’s etched in stone. To help, here’s a look at what the two extremes of startup cash management look like.

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Burn Rate Management Startup Early Stage 107

Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

The other thing that they’re going to ask you is average revenue per account or per user or per customer. You need to understand how much money is brought in by each individual account or user when looking at the overall revenue. It’s what’s going to make you most attractive to an investor. If we increase our-.

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Metrics Startup Churn Rate Forecast 84

Gust

DECEMBER 7, 2014

At least wait until later, when you ready to scale, and have some “leverage” based on a proven business model, some real customers, and real revenue. Focusing on the burn rate and prioritizing every possible expense will keep overhead down, help you stay lean, and achieve a higher profit earlier.

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Bootstrapping Entrepreneur Startup Burn Rate 191

The Next Web

MARCH 8, 2014

Jason Lemkin is the Managing Director at Storm Ventures , a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage enterprise and IT companies, including MobileIron , Marketo and GuideSpark. Specifically, it feels eerily similar to how I felt when I was CEO at EchoSign when we were at about $4m in revenue.

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Partner Burn Rate Early Stage IPO 138

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Great entrepreneurs have learned how to realistically assess and manage both sides of the coin in the following business opportunity and risk categories: Strategic. Then you walk the delicate balance between burn rates, revenue flows versus expenses, investment in marketing, and employees. Operational.

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Burn Rate Angel Investor Operations Demand 170

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

You can read it in VCs discussions about hedge fund managers, activist investors or the need to have dual-share voting structures. ” It goes like this: What is your net burn rate? What is your revenue growth rate and what does this imply about your number of months of capital remaining? Others will follow.

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Burn Rate San Francisco Private Equity LP 150

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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Burn Rate Hockey Stick Management Salary 258

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca was raising at the tail end of this market phenomenon at this time doing tens of millions in SaaS recurring revenue and growing at a nice clip. Here are some stats to give you a sense: • Year over year revenue grew 51% in 2015 and we’re forecasting the same again for 2016. forward revenue for public comps (comparable stocks).

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Balance Sheet Burn Rate Valuation Forecast 150

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.

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Burn Rate Hockey Stick Salary Angel Investor 310

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2015

Great entrepreneurs have learned how to realistically assess and manage both sides of the coin in the following business opportunity and risk categories: Strategic. Then you walk the delicate balance between burn rates, revenue flows versus expenses, investment in marketing, and employees. Operational.

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Entrepreneur Burn Rate Startup Angel Investor 120

The Startup Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

Initially buoyed by the allure of rapid expansion, this company boasted year-over-year growth rates between 300% to 500%, primarily fueled by low initial annual contract values (ACV) but with the possibility of expansions within the first 12 months. Notable examples such as WeWork and Uber illustrate the perils and potential of this era.

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Burn Rate Startup Bankruptcy Metrics 88

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.

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Burn Rate Hockey Stick Entrepreneur Salary 262