Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

They can show the projections on what this does to burn rate. People care about salary increases and benchmarking to market and even if you can’t pay market you sure as hell better know what “market” is. They can help you understand gross margins and how to avoid signing bad deals. Timing of cash payments.

Operations 150

Operations Metrics Early Stage Non-Compete 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

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. As a rule of thumb, you should double every employee’s salary in estimating employee costs, so less is more. Technology costs.

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

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. As a rule of thumb, you should double every employee’s salary in estimating employee costs, so less is more. Technology costs.

Entrepreneur 235

Entrepreneur Burn Rate SEM Social Network 235

Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

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. As a rule of thumb, you should double every employee’s salary in estimating employee costs, so less is more.

Cost 139

Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 139

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

They might not replace an engineer or two that quits. You’ve kept a really low burn rate and paid yourself a very small salary. It’s legitimate to ask for cost cutting if you think the bridge won’t last long enough at the current burn rate.

Startup 290

Startup Burn Rate Warrant Bankruptcy 290

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

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. As a rule of thumb, you should double every employee’s salary in estimating employee costs, so less is more. Technology costs.

Burn Rate 125

Burn Rate SEM Social Network Angel Investor 125

Transformify

AUGUST 27, 2017

Their investors may push them into that direction too, as the high burn rate is often seen as a prerequisite for high growth. You don’t have the right people on board, you are burning cash and the work is not done, at its worst, your product is already live and you are losing clients due to software bugs and poor user experience.

Hiring 64

Hiring Software Review Burn Rate Startup 64

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2016

While you absolutely need to keep an eye on earnings and burn rate, human capital is ultimately the fuel that makes the machine run. Companies that commit to their teams succeed because they attract hard-to-recruit talent like Brianna Crab , a data engineer at Capital One. Your employees, after all, become part of what you sell.

Startup 100

Startup Burn Rate Cofounder Salary 100

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. If your salary expenses are way out of whack from one year to the next or compared to your industry, you need to know and you need to fix that.

Metrics 84

Metrics Startup Churn Rate Forecast 84

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

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

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Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

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. They pay him the smallest salary he canlive on, plus 3% of the company in restricted stock, vesting overfour years. (So

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

[Now it just so happens we also have a very good close rate, but that’s because the startups in our portfolio are typically interesting, rewarding places to be and they are thoughtful in the candidates pursued]. It’s also a reminder why keeping your personal burn rate low is such a career expanding move.

Salary 56

Salary Burn Rate Dilution Equity 56