Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

If you don’t understand your key financial metrics, you have no way of monitoring your business’s health—and you risk mingling assets, incurring penalties for filing taxes late, overlooking expenses, and running into difficulties paying bills and employees, just to mention a few! What Is Cash Burn Rate? Give me the details.

Metrics 60

Metrics Burn Rate .Net Churn Rate 60

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Both risks and opportunities in this area can arise from many aspects of your startup, before and after product development. Then you walk the delicate balance between burn rates, revenue flows versus expenses, investment in marketing, and employees. Operational.

Entrepreneur 267

Entrepreneur Burn Rate Angel Investor Operations 267

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

3 Surprising Interview Questions You Should Ask Every Potential Employee – crowdspring.co/1s051td. Are startup burn rates out of control? 3 Surprising Interview Questions You Should Ask Every Potential Employee – crowdspring.co/1s051td. What’s the Best Time to Send Email Newsletters? – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Both risks and opportunities in this area can arise from many aspects of your startup, before and after product development. Then you walk the delicate balance between burn rates, revenue flows versus expenses, investment in marketing, and employees. Operational.

Burn Rate 170

Burn Rate Angel Investor Operations Demand 170

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Considering Facebook’s scale, the company is now in the business of operating power plants to operate its servers, therefore, Schippers estimates that Facebook has a $30 million dollar monthly burn rate just for hosting. But if you were to replicate the product exactly, all those decisions are made for you. 4) WhatsApp.

Cost 168

Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 168

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2014

Both risks and opportunities in this area can arise from many aspects of your startup, before and after product development. Then you walk the delicate balance between burn rates, revenue flows versus expenses, investment in marketing, and employees. Operational.

Burn Rate 234

Burn Rate Angel Investor Entrepreneur Operations 234

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Insist on the incredibly high-IQ employees and hold them to incredibly high standards. Build a truly mainstream product. It never generated positive returns for its investors, and most of its employees walked away dejected. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. Mission accomplished.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco Lean Agile Continuous Deployment 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2015

Both risks and opportunities in this area can arise from many aspects of your startup, before and after product development. Then you walk the delicate balance between burn rates, revenue flows versus expenses, investment in marketing, and employees. Operational.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Burn Rate Startup Angel Investor 120

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

The full formula works like this: runway = cash on hand / burn rate # iterations = runway / speed of each iteration Very few successful companies ended up in the same exact business that the founders thought theyd be in (see Founders at Work for dozens of examples). Combining agile development with customer developm.

San Francisco 117

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 117

The Equity Kicker

JULY 16, 2015

Companies with lots of cash sometimes add people more quickly, but that drives the burn rate up, often without a compensating increase in the chance of success. In the first couple of months the focus should be on making sure the idea is valid, requiring the following activities: Development of the company vision and strategy.

eCommerce 60

eCommerce Burn Rate Early Stage Hiring 60

ithacaVC

MARCH 14, 2011

It may have multiple people in each category, but for purposes of this post, let’s assume one tech founder, one business founder and then some additional “first employees” It would be normal for these first employees to be involved in product development.

Early Stage 45

Early Stage Founder Burn Rate Cofounder 45

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

The product didnt convert well enough, the mainstream customers we were driving werent ready for the concept, and the event fed expectations about how successful the product was going to be that turned out to be hyper-inflated. Why do startups synchronize marketing launch and product launch?

San Francisco 168

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168