Both Sides of the Table
JULY 13, 2013
He grew up in Colombia, South America. 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?” I grew up in Northern California. His father came from Romania.
Steve Blank
JUNE 1, 2011
The only numbers in those documents that are important in the first year of a startup’s life are burn rate and cash balance. Angels In America. Traditional startup board meetings spend an insane amount of wasted time using Fortune 100 company metrics like income statements, cash flow, balance sheet, waterfall charts.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 1, 2011
The only numbers in those documents that are important in the first year of a startup’s life are burn rate and cash balance. Angels In America. Traditional startup board meetings spend an insane amount of wasted time using Fortune 100 company metrics like income statements, cash flow, balance sheet, waterfall charts.
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 13, 2011
The only numbers in those documents that are important in the first year of a startup's life are burn rate and cash balance. Angels In America. Most board meetings never get past big company metrics to focus on the crucial startup numbers. That's simply a failure of a startup board’s fiduciary responsibility.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 15, 2020
As a kid growing up in America in a middle class family it just seemed so remote. Now is the time to do those things so that you come on the other side after the reset, in America 2.0, I remember as a kid, my parents were victims of the Holocaust and fought in the wars. They would tell us the craziest stories about what it was like.
Professor VC
JULY 2, 2010
Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? ► October. (1). Watch Out for the Red W(h)ine. ► September. (1). Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct. ► July. (1). ► May. (1). Can you start a company on $10K? ► March. (1). Bootstrapping 101. ► January. (1). The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. ► 2008. (14).
www.chubbybrain.com
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
Corporate America could learn from this. I was about to become the first person in America to sell condom key chains. Title: Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet. Three notes before we begin: After reading these, you realize more than ever that the startup community is really like no other.
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