Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

That died with waterfall software development. Too aggressive about the rate of customer adoption? You might then slow down your burn rate or raise more money. Do you need to rethink referral deals or do you need to improve your conversation rates to hit the same revenue numbers. Do so at your peril.

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Business Plan AJAX Venture Capital Technical Review 334

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. The Customer Development process (and the Lean Startup) is one way to do that.

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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. It doesn’t take a financial genius to recognize that you need to keep your burn rate low. Cash flow out equates to burn rate, and the runway depends on your reserves.

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Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 120

VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

In fact, they were screaming at them to dramatically reduce their burn rates. Angel investment, which was small to start with, disappeared, and most corporate VCs shut down. VC’s were no longer insisting that startups spend faster, and “swing for the fences”. It was a nuclear winter for startup capital.”

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Fixed overhead for salaries, rent, equipment leases and more make up the majority of the “burn rate” (monthly expenses) for most companies. Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. The financial pain of unplanned delays.

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Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 118

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Refocusing the Startup Burn Rate Debate | OpenView Blog – crowdspring.co/1n8paLq. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Stock option questions startup employees should ask | Business Insider – crowdspring.co/1n8lUje. 1xGhzaC.

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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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Hiring Software Review Burn Rate Startup 64

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2016

While you absolutely need to keep an eye on earnings and burn rate, human capital is ultimately the fuel that makes the machine run. But throughout all this, you can’t overlook the single most important financial consideration: your team. Your employees, after all, become part of what you sell.

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Startup Burn Rate Cofounder Salary 100

Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Fixed overhead for salaries, rent, equipment leases and more make up the majority of the “burn rate” (monthly expenses) for most companies. Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues.

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Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 97

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Are startup burn rates out of control? Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 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.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Up and Running

APRIL 22, 2020

They want to understand your burn rate and cash runway to see how likely you are to pay back the loan, and in a crisis, a hit in sales, revenue, and overall cash flow can help prove that you were affected by COVID-19.

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SBA Forecast Software Review Business Plan 139

Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

Fixed overhead for salaries, rent, equipment leases and more make up the majority of the “burn rate” (monthly expenses) for most companies. In the technology sector where I most often play, extended unplanned software development cycles account for the majority of these corporate failures. Email readers continue here.]

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Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 85