Burn Rate Operations Partner Seed Money 
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 17, 2017
They don’t want high burn rates but they will never fund slow growth. Is the revenue dependent on a concentrated set of distribution partners or platforms that put future revenue at risk? They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 million to fund operations in their first year of operations.
Seeing Both Sides
MARCH 2, 2011
Modest burn : the company only raised $1.35 million in its series A financing and kept the burn rate at less than $100k per month to make he money last. Dennis wrote a great post at the time of the financing that showed just how product obsessed he was, even after taking the seed money. Monetization.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though. When we were starting Viaweb,I didnt know about the concept of an accredited investor, anddidnt stop to think about the value of investors connections.The reason I didnt take money from my parents was that I didntwant them to lose it.
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