Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. And for every time I’ve felt hugely stressed that our burn rate was getting too high, and I didn’t know who else was going to fund the company, and I’m all in on this company, right?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2016

Every startup role requires managing to financial realities. The fastest way to win a leadership position in a new company is to communicate value from your insights to other team members and executives. Leadership is earned rather than appointed. They also must sharpen leadership, collaboration and communication skills.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

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. Now I trust them.

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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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Customer Development is Low Burn by Design The Customer Development process keeps a startup at a low cash burn rate until the company has validated its business model by finding paying customers. AKPC_IDS += "1115,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] carry on reading.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.] The Customer Development process (and the Lean Startup) is one way to do that.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I generally get asked about skills required (leadership, tolerance for ambiguity, risk taking, persistence, opportunity recognition, etc.), I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. Asking about core values is a great question.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2016

by Shawn Overcast , managing director at gothamCulture. While you absolutely need to keep an eye on earnings and burn rate, human capital is ultimately the fuel that makes the machine run. Shawn Overcast is managing director at gothamCulture. You have a million things to consider when investing your startup’s money.

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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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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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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

So we brought in experience hand Mark Woodward who had taken 2 companies public and had a storied sales leadership turned CEO career where he learned in academy-rich Oracle. We had grown into a more reasonable burn rate so raising capital meant we would have many years of cash on the balance sheet.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

surrendered market leadership and thought leadership. It’s a pain to manage payroll, unemployment, insurance, etc in one state. It’s a freaking nightmare to manage in three states (well, two states and a district), even though we paid a payroll service to take care of it. Post-Mortem Title : RiotVine Post-Mortem.

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