Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall. It doesn’t take a financial genius to recognize that you need to keep your burn rate low. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve.

Burn Rate 223

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 223

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall. It doesn’t take a financial genius to recognize that you need to keep your burn rate low. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve.

Burn Rate 258

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Management Salary 258

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall. It doesn’t take a financial genius to recognize that you need to keep your burn rate low. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve.

Burn Rate 310

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Salary Angel Investor 310

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall. It doesn’t take a financial genius to recognize that you need to keep your burn rate low. Your goal is that magical break even point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve.

Burn Rate 262

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Entrepreneur Salary 262

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall. It doesn’t take a financial genius to recognize that you need to keep your burn rate low. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve.

Burn Rate 120

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 120

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

raised their voices in a annoyed investor tone) that the headcount and its attendant burn rate combined with the lack of revenue meant the company would run out of money much sooner than anyone planned. More than likely the revenue projection would resemble the hockey stick like the graph on the right. What went wrong?

Revenue 230

Revenue Balance Sheet Hockey Stick Burn Rate 230