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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Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 223

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

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

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.

Burn Rate 262

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Entrepreneur Salary 262

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

That died with waterfall software development. Great product managers who are not great business people still often fail. Usually in a tech / software startup 70-80% of your costs will be people. They are the most important document you can prepare to align your management team on where you THINK your business will go.

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Business Plan AJAX Venture Capital Technical Review 334

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.

Burn Rate 120

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 120

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2016

by Shawn Overcast , managing director at gothamCulture. Developing your product is just the beginning. While you absolutely need to keep an eye on earnings and burn rate, human capital is ultimately the fuel that makes the machine run. Talent development can even strengthen a company’s investment portfolio.

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Startup Burn Rate Cofounder Salary 100

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But first… There is a relationship between time and money that is more complex than most managers think. Fixed overhead for salaries, rent, equipment leases and more make up the majority of the “burn rate” (monthly expenses) for most companies. The art of good management. How about young or pre-revenue companies?

Silicon Valley 118

Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 118

Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

There is a relationship between time and money that is more complex than most managers think. Fixed overhead for salaries, rent, equipment leases and more make up the majority of the “burn rate” (monthly expenses) for most companies. We often accept that development schedules for young companies are almost always too optimistic.

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Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 97

Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

There is a relationship between time and money that is more complex than most managers think. Fixed overhead for salaries, rent, equipment leases and more make up the majority of the “burn rate” (monthly expenses) for most companies. Email readers continue here.]

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Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 85