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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

Gross Burn vs. Net Burn. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it Net burn is the amount of money you are losing per month. I often see companies burning $100,000 per month (net) looking to raise $6-8 million.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Gross Profit (also called Gross Margin or sometimes “Net Revenue”). Simplifying: Revenue -.

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Wish Wildly With Abandon

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

The lists I’ve reviewed are not visionary enough , and, are populated with obvious projects. You need tools and frameworks for: Looking at your current research for fresh insights, Casting a wide net for new possibilities, new ways to innovate, Considering new technology and existing shelved IP.

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Disturbing

Austin Startup

I will always remember his pre-speech pep talk: “Dyer, your entire net worth rides on not screwing this up.” The youngest of the litter has been busy tuning a very attractive general idea into a very specific and more IP-based product offering. But, credit is due to all these CEO’s for perseverance. I got the message.

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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 3)

Software By Rob

Could you talk a bit about the diligence you did during the acquisition? How long into the discussion before you commenced diligence? Due diligence is the most important part of the process because it dictates whether you should move forward with the acquisition, and at what price. For escrow I used escrow.com.

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You can subscribe to Smart Bear Live on iTunes (please review the podcast as well!) … and if you’d like to appear on a future episode of Smart Bear Live, send an email to Patrick.Foley@microsoft.com to schedule a recording with Jason. And please tweet your thanks to Software Promotions for sponsoring Smart Bear Live! Jason: Right.

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The Modern Approach To Account Based Marketing

ConversionXL

While reading a book called “ No Forms, No Cold Calls & No Spam ” by Latané Conant, I came to the realization that many vendors try to position ABM as a $40,000 technology stack problem. Technology has both enabled us and added needless complexity to the process. Dave says it best (who ran ABM at Marketo & Bizible).

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