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5 Ways To Conserve Investor Cash And Ensure Survival

Startup Professionals Musings

Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Use social media for early marketing.

Burn Rate 310
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Investors Measure Entrepreneurs By Cashflow Mileage

Startup Professionals Musings

Your goal is that magical break even point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Use social media for early marketing.

Burn Rate 262
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5 Keys To A Viable Spending Rate And Cash Management

Startup Professionals Musings

Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Use social media for early marketing.

Burn Rate 258
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5 Keys To Minimizing The Burn Rate For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Use social media for early marketing.

Burn Rate 223
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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

By then, I had become a venture capitalist at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance and found myself talking to a lot of entrepreneurs who were proclaiming their great technology yet were struggling with little revenue, and claiming they were “crossing the chasm”. Maysee now enjoys hockey stick revenue growth.

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5 Steps To Maximizing Your Startup Cash Flow Runway

Startup Professionals Musings

Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Use social media for early marketing.

Burn Rate 120
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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal.

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