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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 16, 2010
You would think that would be enough to get wrong, but entrepreneurs and investors compound this problem by assuming that all startups grow and scale by executing the Revenue Plan. All discussion focused on “missing the revenue plan.”. Revenue Plan Needs to Match Market Type. They don’t. What went wrong?
Professor VC
AUGUST 26, 2011
The objections range from "its hard", "nobody believes them" to "all hockey sticks look alike". To that last one, there is certainly some truth as the standard time vs. revenue chart in most business plans looks like this: Im not teaching Entrepreneurial Finance this semester for the first time since Fall 2007. ► July. (1).
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