Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. Danielle goes through some commentary from Bill Gurley, Fred Wilson and Marc Andreessen about burn rate and then goes on to discuss her own burn rate and others publicly weigh in.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. The Rise of the Lean Startup.
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Mucker Lab
MAY 28, 2020
Compass.co, a benchmarking and research service, analyzed 3,200 internet startups and found that 74 percent “fail due to premature scaling.” Or, you feel like you have so much cash that you can afford to burn it until your original idea eventually works. Sometimes founders misapply lean startup methodology.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. Usually in a tech / software startup 70-80% of your costs will be people. Each quarter you should review your model. Too aggressive about the rate of customer adoption?
crowdSPRING Blog
SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
Inside the Mind of a Technical Founder | OpenView Blog by Larry Kim – crowdspring.co/1u7Fz1b. Are startup burn rates out of control? Busting the Lean-Startup Myth – crowdspring.co/1ozOXHA. Livescribe Notebooks by Moleskine marry analog and digital technology – crowdspring.co/1lYTFTX. 1uDRBAT.
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 18, 2013
One of them used to be a lead developer at [insert hot consumer tech company here]. They need to raise money before building anything substantial after determining that they needed a little dough to follow the Lean Startup methodology. In startup time, that feels like forever. The year would have been a full year, not just 7-9 months.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. The new VP of Sales reviews the sales strategy and tactics that did not work and comes up with a new sales plan.
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