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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2014

What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company? | Benchmarking SaaS Startup Efficiency with Revenue per Employee Metrics | by @ttunguz – crowdspring.co/1sRVdjm. Why You Should Find Product-Market Fit Before Sniffing Around For Venture Money | Co.Labs – crowdspring.co/1sRVsv5. by @msuster – crowdspring.co/1qKWc0z.

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OCTOBER 10, 2014

Refocusing the Startup Burn Rate Debate | OpenView Blog – crowdspring.co/1n8paLq. Stock option questions startup employees should ask | Business Insider – crowdspring.co/1n8lUje. React – crowdspring.co/1yHa1WB. The Most Innovative Companies Don’t Worry About Consensus | by Maxwell Elliot, HBR – crowdspring.co/Z7pWNt.

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

Don’t Get Burned by Your Burn Rate – crowdspring.co/159KKrk. When You Give Your Team a Goal, Make It a Range – crowdspring.co/1yINX9Z. 7 Simple Ways to Appreciate your Team (and Boost Performance) – crowdspring.co/1veUNVr. 13 Things Startup Founders Aren’t Thankful For – crowdspring.co/1B6KrdY.

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These Innocent Hiring Mistakes Can Kill Your Startup

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 don’t have the right people on board, you are burning cash and the work is not done, at its worst, your product is already live and you are losing clients due to software bugs and poor user experience.

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Lessons Learned: Cash is not king

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). Were talking PayPal -sized variations.

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8 Pieces of Advice For CEOs That Need To Scale Their Startups

YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2015

Burn rate: Seeing company grow fast is both exciting and overwhelming experience. Even though the growth is rapidly increasing, the burn rate can equally increase too so its essential to plan advance and evaluate the options based on that. Philip Acuña is a journalist and PR strategist based in Medellin, Colombia.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

We change the way PR gets done by connecting companies with relevant reporters. We are simplifying the process of getting featured (for companies) and curate PR content (for reporters). The “burn rate” indicates how much money a company is losing over a given period of time. Techstars Austin 2017' Hi there!

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

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. Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Even if you must launch to your customers, avoid the urge to also launch in extra places, just because your PR firm can do it at the same time. If you are having trouble raising money, sometimes a little PR can help. Help you raise money.

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ProfessorVC: Watch Out for the Red W(h)ine

Professor VC

OCTOBER 20, 2009

However, the individual above was adamant that we should have a PR campaign to let the entrepreneurial community know that we dont participate or support this practice. Ive written about the practice of charging entrepreneurs in earlier blog posts and it is not something we would ever do at SHA. Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? ► July.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Are startup burn rates out of control? Be Honest: Are You Really The Best Boss for Your Business by Howard Tullman – crowdspring.co/1u86ES3. 12 Qualities To Look For In A Co-Founder – crowdspring.co/1m97mzy. How Everything We Tell Ourselves About How Busy We Are Is A Lie | Fast Company – [link] crowdspring.co/1uH6HVo.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Too much PR, too early. Title: Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet. While we certainly made more than seven mistakes during the nearly four-year life of Monitor110, I think these top the list. The lack of a single, “the buck stops here” leader until too late in the game. Too much money.

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The Startup Toolkit

JUNE 27, 2012

For example, it’s very hard to go back to your old burn rate once you’ve hired a VP sales and it’s hard to re-vamp your product focus after a big PR campaign. One way to think about premature scaling is as irreversible decisions.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications. The passionate early adopters who flocked to the product at its launch could not sustain this outsized burn rate. As with many Silicon Valley failures, a flawless PR launch turned into a flawed customer acquisition strategy.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

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