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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

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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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

CEO Scott Thompson alluded to their plan a couple weeks ago but the IP lawsuit itself was only official late afternoon yesterday (and now public). ’s claims of IP infringement or offer a litigator’s perspective of Yahoo! Thompson reportedly dealt with this IP lawsuit personally along with Yahoo!’s

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived. What once cost $20,000 and was produced by skilled researchers in a lab, now costs $500 and is produced by hobbyists working part-time.

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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

Since 2005 startup accelerators have provided cohorts of startups with mentoring, pitch practice and product focus. For their final presentations, each team explained how they tested and validated their business model (value proposition, customer segment, channel, customer relationships, revenue, costs, activities, resources and partners.)

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Is Click Fraud Devouring Your Ad Budget?

ConversionXL

Click fraud first came to light in 2005, when several major cases were taken to court. Juniper Research estimates that click fraud cost advertisers $42 billion in 2019. Some networks are highly sophisticated, and organisers disguise their IP addresses. Click farms are often a combination of real people and bots. Image source ).

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

Geleerd acquired the stadium out of highly publicized bankruptcy and turned around its financial position and ultimately engineered the sale back to the Toronto Blue Jays in 2005. Cost: $15 Members; $40 Non-members & Guests; please register by 3:00pm on May 24th. Wednesday, May 25, 2011.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

Great lifestyle, great cost of living, motivated people and only the crap weather on the negative side. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put. The ingredients are all here. No Dave S. =

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