Burn Rate Business Model Forecast Revenue 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. Then one day it was over.
Up and Running
APRIL 6, 2020
This can be a daunting task, but the best place to start is understanding and calculating your cash burn rate and your cash runway. How do you calculate the burn rate? You’ll also have variable expenses such as salaries, travel, supplies, and other services you use to run your business. You have positive cash flow.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 17, 2020
The questions every startup or small business CEO needs to ask now are: What’s my Burn Rate and Runway? What does your new business model look like? Burn Rate and Runway. To answer the first question, take stock of your current gross burn rate i.e. how much cash are you spending each month.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Getting it Right Apple’s entry into new markets by creating new product categories – iPods, iPads, iPhones – is unprecedented in the history of the modern corporation – $300 billion (75% of their revenue) is from non-computer hardware.
Up and Running
APRIL 30, 2020
Each scenario combines the key numbers in the hypothetical case and explores the impact on the bottom line, and helps you define your cash burn rate and runway. Simply put it’s a better method of accurately looking forward and business owners know better than mathematicians. Building scenarios using a business planning tool.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 7, 2015
How the solution and business model work to fund the business. Every customer understands that your solution has to generate more revenue than cost, but you should not put that data in a customer pitch. Investors will impatiently expect a winning business model, customer segment definitions and volume projections.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 15, 2013
Projecting the financials should be the last step of your business plan preparation, since it assumes you already know the opportunity size, customer buying habits, pricing, costs, and competition. This forecast is really their commitment. The holy grail is break-even, when revenues first catch up with the outflow.
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