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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok. but that’s our firm’s money on your balance sheet. In startup world low GM almost always equals death which is why many Internet retailers have failed or are failing (many operated at 35% gross margins).

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

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” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. Not only because it’s a product that Bplans and Palo Alto software makes, but because before I joined the company, I used LivePlan to pitch and raise my investment capital. Pretend that you are the investor.