Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Facilities and staff.

Cost 255

Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 255

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2016

In the case of GrubHub’s Adam DeWitt, he ended up with a salary exceeding that of the CEO. Every team member, from engineer to CEO, lives or dies based on cash flow, so the more they can tune their activities to revenue and expenses, the more valuable they become. Every startup role requires managing to financial realities.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Burn Rate Leadership Salary 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Facilities and staff.

Entrepreneur 235

Entrepreneur Burn Rate SEM Social Network 235

Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

If you’re in a really crowded area, let’s pretend one of you is selling flowers and competing in the online flower market, it’s going to be really hard to rank in search engines. The other thing that they’re going to ask you is average revenue per account or per user or per customer. If we increase our-.

Metrics 84

Metrics Startup Churn Rate Forecast 84

Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM), like cohort analysis , yourself.

Cost 139

Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 139

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Facilities and staff.

Burn Rate 125

Burn Rate SEM Social Network Angel Investor 125

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO. Think of it as 7 bonus post-mortems on the house. It’s free.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. When you have a high "burn rate," youre alwaysunder time pressure, which means (a) you dont have time for yourideas to evolve, and (b) youre often forced to take deals you dontlike. Every startups rule should be: spend little, and work fast.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

The increase in companies spreads out great engineering and product talent into many more companies (many not likely to succeed) versus consolidating resources fewer, more transformational companies. Huge funding increases lead to massive wage inflation, rent inflation and thus higher burn rates. Reversion to the Mean.

Valuation 150

Valuation Down Round Startup Later Stage 150