Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Part 4 of the Customer Development Manifesto to follow.

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 228

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

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. That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Technology costs. Sales and marketing costs.

Cost 255

Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 255

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

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. That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Technology costs. Sales and marketing costs.

Entrepreneur 235

Entrepreneur Burn Rate SEM Social Network 235

Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

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. That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Technology costs. Sales and marketing costs.

Cost 139

Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 139

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

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. That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Technology costs. Sales and marketing costs.

Burn Rate 125

Burn Rate SEM Social Network Angel Investor 125

Transformify

AUGUST 27, 2017

Their investors may push them into that direction too, as the high burn rate is often seen as a prerequisite for high growth. It could be a digital marketing assistant to take charge of your social media accounts, a virtual assistant to organize your schedule across different time zones, or a SEM expert. The downside?

Hiring 64

Hiring Software Review Burn Rate Startup 64

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Do some Customer Development instead. And even worse, wed cranked up the burn rate in order to be ready to handle all those millions of mainstream customers we anticipated. Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. the most sensible SEM advice Ive read - discussed in the context of a real situation. Dont scale.

San Francisco 168

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168