Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

That died with waterfall software development. If you’re a consumer destination the revenue and COGS lines should tell me about how big your funnel is, how you fill the top end of the pipe and what your conversion rates will be. Ditto for enterprise software companies. Don’t know the running rate for engineers?

Business Plan 334

Business Plan AJAX Venture Capital Technical Review 334

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Your natural tendency when an investor says yes willbe to relax and go back to writing code. They were helpful in negotiating deals, for example.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Where are the Women Software Engineers? – crowdspring.co/12gwMCO. Don’t Get Burned by Your Burn Rate – crowdspring.co/159KKrk. A Refresher on Net Present Value – crowdspring.co/11LJvw6. Making Failure More Productive | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/1vCXLVU.

Social Media 100

Social Media Small Business Design Media 100

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.

San Francisco 117

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 117