Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Fixed overhead for salaries, rent, equipment leases and more make up the majority of the “burn rate” (monthly expenses) for most companies. What most managers miss is that every month cut from the time it takes to perform such tasks cuts the cost by the value of a month’s worth of fixed overhead or burn.

Silicon Valley 118

Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 118

Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Fixed overhead for salaries, rent, equipment leases and more make up the majority of the “burn rate” (monthly expenses) for most companies. What most managers miss is that every month cut from the time it takes to perform such tasks cuts the cost by the value of a month’s worth of fixed overhead or burn.

Silicon Valley 97

Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 97

Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

Fixed overhead for salaries, rent, equipment leases and more make up the majority of the “burn rate” (monthly expenses) for most companies. Although young companies rarely measure profitability this repeatedly, more mature companies usually can bring from five to ten percent of revenues to the bottom line in the form of net profit.

Silicon Valley 85

Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 85

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. A high performing, high-growth SAAS company that may have been worth 10 or more times revenue was suddenly worth 4-7 times revenue.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

No you’re kind of f *d because nobody wants to buy any at all and your bank is calling you concerned that you may need to slow down your pace of new purchases for a bit. Many experienced partners are funds have 7-10 boards and most of these will need more capital. So when prices go down their first reaction is, “S**t.

Valuation 150

Valuation Down Round Startup Later Stage 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Mark dutifully went to partner meetings, back-channel references began, firms started calling existing VCs to “test prices” and we started debating whom our best partner would be. Here are some stats to give you a sense: • Year over year revenue grew 51% in 2015 and we’re forecasting the same again for 2016.

Balance Sheet 150

Balance Sheet Burn Rate Valuation Forecast 150

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. The fund managers, who are called"general partners," get about 2% of the fund annually as a managementfee, plus about 20% of the funds gains. Not all the people who work at VC firms are partners. Its the partners who decide, and they view things witha colder eye.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76