Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
In an era of “launch and learn&# is there a need for a business plan? I have seen really great product people espouse the death of the business plan. So, definition: when I talk about a business plan I’m not talking about a 40-page Word document outlining your market approach.
Up and Running
APRIL 22, 2020
They want to understand your burn rate and cash runway to see how likely you are to pay back the loan, and in a crisis, a hit in sales, revenue, and overall cash flow can help prove that you were affected by COVID-19. Like all loans, the SBA EIDL option has its own requirements and specifications that make your business eligible.
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Up and Running
APRIL 27, 2020
Current businesses are finding ways to pivot their business models, revisiting their budgets, and developing new forecasts to minimize their burn rate and maximize their available cash runway. Putting it all together to start your business. But it doesn’t have to be all bad. .
Up and Running
APRIL 30, 2020
” It’s been a favorite management tool of mine since my time as VP for a market research firm, and it’s a method I used for decades growing a software company from zero to well over $10 million in annual sales. Then you look at what to change in expenses to keep the business going during the downturn. What is a scenario analysis?
Tim Keane
DECEMBER 14, 2009
He is a partner in a pretty much exclusively software seed stage fund, Y Combinator that you can read more about. We worked all day building market strategies for customers while we tried to embody our expertise on software that would expand the company's reach. Starting Startups. Amen.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 18, 2012
I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 13, 2013
Before you think I was a complete nerd, in addition to making money selling software, which I did at 15, 16 years old, I also made money throwing keg parties. So Small Talk was a big object-oriented programming language, and a bunch of people from our company went to work at Small Talk, and they all went into the software industry.
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