Burn Rate Business Model Engineer Founder 
Steve Blank
AUGUST 27, 2012
What I saw reminded me of some of the best and worst things I did as a founder. Tossing their agile development process and at times their entire business model in the air, the company would go into fire-drill mode and engineering would start working on whatever his latest insight was. A Pivot a Week. he’d declare. “We
Steve Blank
JUNE 1, 2011
Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. Yet boards of large companies exist to monitor efficient strategy and execution of a known business model. VC’s sit on 6 – 12 boards at a time.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 1, 2011
Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. Yet boards of large companies exist to monitor efficient strategy and execution of a known business model. VC’s sit on 6 – 12 boards at a time.
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 13, 2011
Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. Yet boards of large companies exist to monitor efficient strategy and execution of a known business model. VCs sit on six to 12 boards at a time.
Professor VC
MARCH 10, 2009
His goal in building the company was to spend 3 years building value and find a good home for the engineers and product. Certainly not to say they couldnt have raised more cash and built this in to a bigger company, but was nice to have the option of going either way and doing what was right for the founders and employees.
ReadWriteStart
JANUARY 27, 2011
Persistent is breaking out of the mold of labor arbitrage, and looking at new and exciting business models. My friend Tony Scott did an outstanding interview with Anand Deshpande , their CEO recently in which Anand discussed his vision for where he wants to take the OPD business. You can register for the next roundtable here.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 19, 2016
While you absolutely need to keep an eye on earnings and burn rate, human capital is ultimately the fuel that makes the machine run. Companies that commit to their teams succeed because they attract hard-to-recruit talent like Brianna Crab , a data engineer at Capital One. Your employees, after all, become part of what you sell.
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