Up and Running

APRIL 2, 2020

If you’re looking for a place to start, I suggest focusing on effectively managing your cash flow. Also, for your crisis plan, be sure that you know your burn rate and runway , which is how quickly you are using up your cash reserves and how long you have before you run out of cash. The difference between cash and profits. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2016

Every startup role requires managing to financial realities. As startups grow from development organizations to a sustainable and repeatable business, processes must be documented, employees hired and trained and customer-support organizations built. Leadership is earned rather than appointed.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As we wrote in our Founding Manifesto , Bolster was started in part to create a new way for startup and scaleup CEOs to think about growing their leadership teams. All those challenges point directly to the specific challenge CEOs have with their leadership team. Why do CEOs need help with this? Well, of course they do, sometimes.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

. * By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. But in fact, most startups need to keep their burn rate low more [.] Who would have known?

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As we wrote in our Founding Manifesto , Bolster was started in part to create a new way for startup and scaleup CEOs to think about growing their leadership teams. All those challenges point directly to the specific challenge CEOs have with their leadership team. Why do CEOs need help with this? Well, of course they do, sometimes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

It's never selfish to hire. 11:59) Giving people trust and autonomy and opening lines of communication as a leader, and how Mark's leadership has evolved. (14:16) So talk a little bit about what you've seen and why you felt called to take on a leadership role. I think that's really a big part of how my leadership has evolved.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

We hired an interior designer and a great facilities person to manage the process. If the management team is thinking they’ve made it, the new building is just symptomatic of a company heading for a crash. The startup guys should have taken the hint that their burn rate was likely inappropriate (read: out of control).

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

surrendered market leadership and thought leadership. Post-Mortem Title : My eHarmony for Hiring Failure. – made compromises in early hiring decisions – choose expediency over talent/competency. It’s a pain to manage payroll, unemployment, insurance, etc in one state. Company : RiotVine. Author : Kabir.

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Ben's Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

What’s our burn rate? Different members of the leadership team would send out weekly emails to all about customer trips, conferences attended, schedules slips and customer issues. Our employee orientation, performance reviews and leadership training all emphasized everyone having an obligation to dissent….

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