Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Many startups focus on growth (instead of profits) and often need to track KPIs that may be different from those used by established businesses: Burn rate : indicates the company’s negative cash flow or how quickly it’s spending money. Activation rate: measures how many visitors are engaging with your website or app.

Founder 71

Founder Retention Metrics Technical Review 71

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Partnerships, distribution channels and pricing models should be included. “If This allows them to calculate burn rates, break-even points and forecast the company valuation over time. Specific elements of your marketing and sales plans. If we build it they will come” is not a marketing and sales strategy.

Product 120

Product Intellectual Property Liquidity Event Burn Rate 120

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

What’s the distribution channel? Regardless of your type of business model you should be tracking cash burn rate, months of cash left, time to cash flow breakeven. A startup is a search for a repeatable and scalable business model. How do we price and position the product? How do we create end user demand? Who are our partners?

Balance Sheet 304

Balance Sheet Startup Burn Rate Metrics 304

Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

Over the past year, and especially over the last few days, the Bay Area tech Twitter echo chamber has been tweeting about the advent of remote, or distributed, or satellite teams for their companies across the country and the world. Today, I am excited to share some data on the Haystack portfolio as it relates to geography.

United States 87

United States Portfolio San Francisco New York City 87

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. They had a very expensive burn rate at the wrong time. Do you think a multi-channel distribution strategy is important to guard against unforeseen changes? (51:30 Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Up and Running

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Investors like valuation to relate to actual business numbers, such as sales, gross margin (price less direct costs), and burn rate or fixed costs. More often, it’s secret formulas, secret ingredients, trade secrets, and relationships with channels of distribution. It’s simple math. . Sometimes it’s progress made in branding.

Valuation 136

Valuation Oregon Burn Rate Angel Groups 136

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

They don’t want high burn rates but they will never fund slow growth. Is the revenue dependent on a concentrated set of distribution partners or platforms that put future revenue at risk? Revenue When I look at an income statement I start by focusing on the revenue line.

Stock Options 227

Stock Options Startup Dilution Venture Capital 227

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We call that “burn rate” these post-Internet days. If you are using the basic sales forecast table for retail, service and distribution businesses, use a percentage estimate, e.g., a retail store running a 50 percent margin would have a per-unit cost of.5, This will give you a better insight on financial realities.

Forecast 60

Forecast Burn Rate Revenue Cost 60

Hearpreneur

JULY 7, 2019

To build an app, you can purchase a cheap Chromebook, connect to an incredibly powerful array of supercomputers for next to no cost on AWS, and you can distribute your minimally viable product across large social networks like Linkedin and Facebook with just a key stroke. The future of entrepreneurship is global, distributed, and remote.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Distribution Employee Arizona 93

VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

Our system is managed by a patent-pending combination of distributed, grid and peer to peer technologies along with sophisticated analytic algorithms to do the smart matching beween your media and the device. It’s all based on growth and on opening the capabilities of the Libox distribution platform to the community.

Media 84

Media Management API HTML 84

pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

While a 21-year-old with no mortgage, no girlfriend and a low-burn rate may have nothing to lose, a 40-year old with a career, a mortgage and kids has everything to lose. There has to be nothing else in the world you can do and possibly be happy. No new parent is starting a company just for the life experience of starting a company.

Entrepreneur 45

Entrepreneur San Francisco Silicon Valley Technical Review 45

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

The pressures of lofty paper valuations, massive burn rates (and the subsequent need for more cash), and unprecedented low levels of IPOs and M&A, have created a complex and unique circumstance which many Unicorn CEOs and investors are ill-prepared to navigate. Layoffs have also become more prevalent.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? ► October. (1).

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 3, 2019

They’re not only leading larger rounds, but may need to bridge companies they’ve otherwise made large investments into that have higher burn rates. This is the data of what your investment dollar distribution looks like if you’re doing the pro-rata of each of these rounds. That’s not what seed funds are doing.

Portfolio 110

Portfolio Burn Rate LP Distribution 110