Burn Rate Naming Reputation Revenue 
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 13, 2013
You’re two guys in a garage, two guys across campus trying to make a name for yourself. You have been at five startups, you had an exit at your last company where you were the Chief Revenue Officer. And we’re here in LA, but we’ve got people all over the world watching this. How do you define yourself?
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. The same thing happened to many Internet stocks.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. One of the dangers of taking investment from individual angels,rather than through an angel group or investment firm, is that theyhave less reputation to protect. A big-name VC firm will not screwyou too outrageously, because other founders would avoid them ifword got out.
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