Burn Rate Revenue Salary Small Business 
Up and Running
APRIL 6, 2020
If you’re out of cash, you’re out of business. If you’re running a startup or small business in these times, you have to be thinking about a Plan B and even a Plan C. As I write this, at least 20% of the United States is on lockdown and only “essential” businesses have their doors open. You have positive cash flow.
Steve Blank
MARCH 17, 2020
With the Covid-19 virus a worldwide pandemic, if you’re leading any startup or small business, you have to be asking yourself, “What’s Plan B? While the impact on small businesses and workers in the “gig-economy” hasn’t made the news, it will be worse for them. But next the question is, ‘What happens to my business?”.
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Berkonomics
APRIL 16, 2020
Many businesses threatened with closure forever. Small businesses are the most vulnerable, even though most have furloughed employees. Rent and other fixed costs continue, even when revenues have dried up – a fatal combination. Plan for reductions in fixed overhead, salaries, and other costs now.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 13, 2013
You know, there were a number of small businesses in San Diego that were producing hard drives and computer assemblies and, you know, a lot of stuff in the IT sector, and I had gone off to meet a bunch of them because I didn’t know if I could get a job. They paid engineers $4,000 more entry-point.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 18, 2012
I now see and believe business plans that budget $1K for all this, versus a previous $20K or more. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
I now see and believe business plans that budget $1K for all this, versus a previous $20K or more. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks.
Up and Running
AUGUST 21, 2014
The other thing that they’re going to ask you is average revenue per account or per user or per customer. You need to understand how much money is brought in by each individual account or user when looking at the overall revenue. It’s what’s going to make you most attractive to an investor. If we increase our-.
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