Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2020

From my perspective as an investor, I recommend that every founder needs to know the answers to these questions, be open and honest in answering them thoughtfully, and without making excuses: What is the current runway and burn rate? Are any lawsuits and challenges to intellectual property pending?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

From my perspective as an investor, I recommend that every founder needs to know the answers to these questions, be open and honest in answering them thoughtfully, and without making excuses: What is the current runway and burn rate? Are any lawsuits and challenges to intellectual property pending?

Sweat Equity 207

Sweat Equity Burn Rate Technical Review Intellectual Property 207

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2016

From my perspective as an investor, I recommend that every founder needs to know the answers to these questions, be open and honest in answering them thoughtfully, and without making excuses: What is the current runway and burn rate? Are any lawsuits and challenges to intellectual property pending?

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Burn Rate Technical Review Intellectual Property 120

YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2016

by Gadiel Morantes , chief revenue officer at Early Growth Financial Services. Use burn rate as an example. If you don’t understand how much money your company is burning through each month, how can you expect to intelligently talk about your fiscal health? A Jenga tower is a precariously built one. Speaking of which….

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Technical Review Burn Rate IP Intellectual Property 124

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2015

From my perspective as an investor, I recommend that every founder needs to know the answers to these questions, be open and honest in answering them thoughtfully, and without making excuses: What is the current runway and burn rate? Are any lawsuits and challenges to intellectual property pending?

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Due Diligence Sweat Equity Burn Rate 120

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. For example, a seed firmshould be able to give advice about how to approach VCs, which VCsobviously dont need to do; whereas VCs should be able to giveadvice about how to hire an "executive team," which is not an issuein the seed stage. So theyre going to raise $200,000.

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