Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2014

It also forces you to pick a name for your company and put other intellectual property stakes in the ground. Company and product naming may also seem simple, but should be a key early effort, because mistakes can be very costly. Pundits in Latino countries quickly pointed out that the name, ‘no va’ means ‘does not go’ in Spanish.

Startup 265

Startup Intellectual Property LLC Burn Rate 265

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2012

People hire people they know, so nurture your relationship with friends already active in startups. There are multiple online sites, like the Startup Directory and VentureLoop , that you can browse by company name, region, or technology. What's the monthly burn rate? Start networking. Same thing for Angel organizations.

Silicon Valley 246

Silicon Valley Burn Rate Startup Stock Options 246

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

It also forces you to pick a name for your company and put other intellectual property stakes in the ground. Company and product naming may also seem simple, but should be a key early effort, because mistakes can be very costly. Pundits in Latino countries quickly pointed out that the name, ‘no va’ means ‘does not go’ in Spanish.

Entrepreneur 274

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property LLC Burn Rate 274

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

Even after we got funded, it took us three months to hire our first two developers at our prior companies—and I consider us pretty visible and well-networked. If anything, it should be *easier* to pull someone out of a bank in NYC than to pull someone out of Twitter or compete against them head to head on hiring.

New York City 113

New York City New York Startup Burn Rate 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2011

People hire people they know, so nurture your relationship with friends already active in startups. There are multiple online sites, like the Startup Directory and VentureLoop , that you can browse by company name, region, or technology. What's the monthly burn rate? Start networking. Same thing for Angel organizations.

Silicon Valley 227

Silicon Valley Burn Rate Startup Stock Options 227

Transformify

AUGUST 27, 2017

All of the above is true, but it is also true that many startups have failed because they hired too early, too fast, or fired too late. Many of the points below can be found among the best hiring practices for startups and there is nothing wrong with them in general. Then the hiring begins. Hire full-time employees.

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Gust

DECEMBER 29, 2013

It also forces you to pick a name for your company and put other intellectual property stakes in the ground. Company and product naming may also seem simple, but should be a key early effort, because mistakes can be very costly. Pundits in Latino countries quickly pointed out that the name, ‘no va’ means ‘does not go’ in Spanish.

Startup 183

Startup Intellectual Property LLC Burn Rate 183

Up and Running

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Investors like valuation to relate to actual business numbers, such as sales, gross margin (price less direct costs), and burn rate or fixed costs. I can take the money you want, hire some people, and become your competitor.” Scalable infrastructure, software tools, subscription services, to name a few, are scalable.

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Valuation Oregon Burn Rate Angel Groups 136

The Next Web

JUNE 15, 2015

Also, unless the company is a well-known household name, consumers in foreign markets tend to trust and be more aware of local brands. Airbnb’s experience shows how local engagement strategies such as these do not have to increase a startup’s burn rate considerably. Talent-Driven Expansion.

Global 60

Global Burn Rate Startup CPA 60

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

It's never selfish to hire. Mark has a unique ability to use his name and his platform to open doors. I said, "Hire people. Hire them to do whatever you can find them to do." So anything you can do to keep them hired, you just improved their sanity. It's never selfish to hire. Look, I'm a capitalist.

Dallas 68

Dallas Employee Government Social Media 68

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Start-ups hire ahead of growth (or at least predicted growth), which translate into a viable company, a healthy work environment, and future internal opportunities. VC brand name matters, but only as a general guide as an indicator of promise , not reality. What is the burn rate and how much cash is in the bank now?

Startup 146

Startup Burn Rate Technical Review Down Round 146

Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

In ten years, from the early 1950′s to the early 1960′s, the valley went through a hiring frenzy as jobs in microwave companies went from 700 to 7,000. When I read the funny names of these microwaves devices… Backward wave oscillators, TWT’s, Magnetrons…long silent memories came back. to do that.

Silicon Valley 270

Silicon Valley RSS San Francisco Technical Review 270

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

A big-name VC firm will not screwyou too outrageously, because other founders would avoid them ifword got out. When we got into such a scrape, our investorstook advantage of it in a way that a name-brand VC probably wouldnthave. Thats where the name"incubator" comes from. What is an incubator? Im not sure myself.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

The pressures of lofty paper valuations, massive burn rates (and the subsequent need for more cash), and unprecedented low levels of IPOs and M&A, have created a complex and unique circumstance which many Unicorn CEOs and investors are ill-prepared to navigate. Layoffs have also become more prevalent.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

a year burn rate and your equity is worthless due to numerous recapitalizations and bridge loans from investors then either you don't get it or I'm stupid to do it. Looks like you should have hired a CFO a long time ago! Name and email address are required. Name is required to post a comment. Invalid URL.

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Silicon Valley Equity Technical Review Recapitalization 40

K9 Ventures

MARCH 22, 2009

Things like choosing a law firm, finding an accountant, hiring people, finding an office, figuring out equity structures, raising money. You haven’t started earning the big bucks and your lifestyle has a low burn rate. I had all of $5,000 to my name when I started my first company. There wasn’t much to lose.

Cofounder 54

Cofounder Burn Rate Founder Startup 54

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Post-Mortem Title : My eHarmony for Hiring Failure. – made compromises in early hiring decisions – choose expediency over talent/competency. Hiring is hard, and without proper experience, we should have leaned more heavily on our investors to help us with this decision. I realized that money was not the issue.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

And even worse, wed cranked up the burn rate in order to be ready to handle all those millions of mainstream customers we anticipated. Who doesnt want to see their name in print? Now that were beginning our first marketing, the key partners we need have heard our name long enough to trust us. Founders push for it.

San Francisco 168

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. I can’t say his name yet because he hasn’t announced funding. We have the inability to hire engineering in Silicon Valley or brand sales people in NYC but the country still has very high structural long-term unemployment. tl;dr summary.

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