Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

In this section, you need to be passionate about recurring revenue, profit margin, and volume growth. Project both revenues and expense totals for next five years, and past three years. Show breakeven point, burn rate, and growth assumptions. What is the rate of return expected for the investor? Business model.

Elevator Pitch 247

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 247

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

In this section, you need to be passionate about recurring revenue, profit margin, and volume growth. Project both revenues and expense totals for next five years, and past three years. Show breakeven point, burn rate, and growth assumptions. What is the rate of return expected for the investor? Business model.

Elevator Pitch 234

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 234

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

In this section, you need to be passionate about recurring revenue, profit margin, and volume growth. Project both revenues and expense totals for next five years, and past three years. Show breakeven point, burn rate, and growth assumptions. What is the rate of return expected for the investor? Business model.

Elevator Pitch 235

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 235

Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

In this section, you need to be passionate about recurring revenue, profit margin, and volume growth. Project both revenues and expense totals for next five years, and past three years. Show breakeven point, burn rate, and growth assumptions. What is the rate of return expected for the investor? Business model.

Elevator Pitch 146

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 146

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 22, 2008

  In addition, I can also promise you that any large or small company looking to buy a startup does not also want to pick up a large burn rate.    Even on a private-private merger, most of these VC-backed companies will do nothing unless the deal is cash flow positive on Day 1. 

Burn Rate 60

Burn Rate Merger Portfolio Partner 60

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans). So what does this all mean. As I said up front, I have mixed emotions about the financing. Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? ► October. (1). Watch Out for the Red W(h)ine.

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28