Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
The rest of the organization (product development, marketing, support) has been burning cash, all according to plan, expecting Sales to make its numbers. Blame it On Marketing In the next 3-6 months, a new VP of Sales is hired. Reply links for 2009-09-07 « Blarney Fellow , on September 7, 2009 at 6:10 pm Said: [.]
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 13, 2013
And for every time I’ve felt hugely stressed that our burn rate was getting too high, and I didn’t know who else was going to fund the company, and I’m all in on this company, right?” Because I’m going to say no to you, and the guys you want to hire from Facebook are going to say no to you.
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Professor VC
JULY 22, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009. The burn rates of my portfolio companies is certainly top of mind right now, but thats not what this post is about. Since Im not a fan of any of those genres, I have been looking forward to the release of his latest work, Burn Rate. July 28, 2009 5:42 PM. ProfessorVC. Steve Bennet.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. And most startup code and features end up on the floor as customers never really wanted them.
Steve Blank
MAY 15, 2009
We hired an interior designer and a great facilities person to manage the process. Reply Andrew Warner , on May 15, 2009 at 9:53 am Said: I had a similar thing happen to me. I didn’t need to look much further than the “new building&# debacle I had a hand in. Sorry about the long comment Steve.
Steve Blank
APRIL 20, 2009
In ten years, from the early 1950′s to the early 1960′s, the valley went through a hiring frenzy as jobs in microwave companies went from 700 to 7,000. scott Reply Daily Links #54 | CloudKnow , on April 20, 2009 at 11:42 pm Said: [.] Reply Jamie Varon - techVenture , on April 23, 2009 at 3:05 pm Said: Great post!
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 13, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? And even worse, wed cranked up the burn rate in order to be ready to handle all those millions of mainstream customers we anticipated. Great article. Cannon said.
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