Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

He just hired Meg Whitman. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV. And it may work.

Lean 335

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

The questions every startup or small business CEO needs to ask now are: What’s my Burn Rate and Runway? Burn Rate and Runway. To answer the first question, take stock of your current gross burn rate i.e. how much cash are you spending each month. What does your new business model look like? How do you know?

Burn Rate 436

Burn Rate Startup Valuation Sales Cycle 436

Mucker Lab

MARCH 8, 2016

How can we tell founders to stay lean, keep focused on their customers, and keep burn rates low if we cannot walk the talk and eat our own dog food? The ones who would rather hire a sales guy than spend money on flavored morning lattes. The macroeconomic conditions of 2000, 2008 or even 2016 — none of that matters to them.

Burn Rate 60

Burn Rate Limited Partner Portfolio Bootstrapping 60

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” Many companies have hired ahead of their growth rate because they had the cash to do so. In our portfolio, we generally don’t have this problem because we aren’t big fans of either (a) overfunding companies or (b) escalating burn rates based on headcount.

Cap Table 70

Cap Table Down Round Liquidation Preference Founder 70

K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

These companies know that they will need to hire people at a steady clip and so they’re willing to come in and make attractive offers in the Fall semester and wait for 6-9 months before you actually get to start your job. What happens if the economy tanks and the company decides that it cannot hire as many people?

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Venture Capital Burn Rate Michigan 48

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). During this year they.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79