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Sayahh’s Financial Statements For August 2011

Feld Thoughts

Now that Dick and Jane have added a CTO to SayAhh’s founding team, they’ve turned their full attention to working on their product. Since SayAhh is in the pre-launch development stage, the company doesn’t have any revenue yet. This results in a gross margin of $0, where gross margin is revenue – cost of goods sold.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

If they *all* turn you down, then I strongly advocate that you either try to get revenues to prove them wrong, bootstrap user traction, spend your own cash, go with friends/family, or maybe, just maybe, take another look at your model. That being said, is low burn rate really what you should be optimizing for?