Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. And for every time I’ve felt hugely stressed that our burn rate was getting too high, and I didn’t know who else was going to fund the company, and I’m all in on this company, right?”

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Ben's Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

And it had little to do with having scalable internal systems or making the quarterly numbers… I just couldn’t keep secrets from my employees. Do you want to panic your employees? What’s our burn rate? We then staged mock earnings calls with the employees as the analysts asking the questions.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2016

by Shawn Overcast , managing director at gothamCulture. Your employees, after all, become part of what you sell. Your employees, after all, become part of what you sell. While you absolutely need to keep an eye on earnings and burn rate, human capital is ultimately the fuel that makes the machine run.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I generally get asked about skills required (leadership, tolerance for ambiguity, risk taking, persistence, opportunity recognition, etc.), If you have a reputation for cutting corners, not treating employees or partners right, it will become very difficult to do business. Asking about core values is a great question. ► July. (1).

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Up and Running

APRIL 2, 2020

If you’re looking for a place to start, I suggest focusing on effectively managing your cash flow. Also, for your crisis plan, be sure that you know your burn rate and runway , which is how quickly you are using up your cash reserves and how long you have before you run out of cash. The difference between cash and profits. .

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

We need our own cafeteria so employees don’t have to leave the building. We hired an interior designer and a great facilities person to manage the process. The new building telegraphed to our employees, “We’ve arrived. Perhaps it is better to shed employees instead, virtualize and outsource? A VERY nice office.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As we wrote in our Founding Manifesto , Bolster was started in part to create a new way for startup and scaleup CEOs to think about growing their leadership teams. All those challenges point directly to the specific challenge CEOs have with their leadership team. Why do CEOs need help with this? Well, of course they do, sometimes.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As we wrote in our Founding Manifesto , Bolster was started in part to create a new way for startup and scaleup CEOs to think about growing their leadership teams. All those challenges point directly to the specific challenge CEOs have with their leadership team. Why do CEOs need help with this? Well, of course they do, sometimes.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). During this year they.

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