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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. So if your costs are $500,000 per month and you have $350,000 per month in revenue then your net burn (500-350) is equal to $150,000.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

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By 1999 we had grown into the largest independent consulting firm in the world. By 1999 it seemed like everybody was growing, though. I left Andersen Consulting in 1999 at the height of the market. Double-down on great people, process & IP. In other words, in a strong market even turkeys can fly. Ameet was right.

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Why Content Personalization Is Not Web Personalization (and What to Do About It)

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In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.” 3% increase in average visit duration.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

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I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). and we ultimately sold when we hit $14 million and had more than $30 million in backlog revenue. I learned about revenue recognition. I learned how to better run a product management process. million, then $5.9m, $7.7m

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

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When I was raising money for my first company we had closed a seed round in 1999 and were working on our A round. We had many term sheets (it was 1999 and we had a pulse) and we were deciding which one to take. It was December 1999. It was December 1999. Let me start with a story. They accepted my argument.

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Behind Every Great Product

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But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices. The combination is amazing.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

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And like the LITERATI, professionals we work with are educated on how to market their business in order to increase revenue opportunities. The original company name was Scene on TV (going back to 1999), and I expanded into movies, and the name was also confusing to people (Scene instead of Seen). Photo Credit: Nigel Whiteoak.

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