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5 Keys To Minimizing The Burn Rate For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall. It doesn’t take a financial genius to recognize that you need to keep your burn rate low. Cash flow out equates to burn rate, and the runway depends on your reserves.

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5 Keys To A Viable Spending Rate And Cash Management

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall. It doesn’t take a financial genius to recognize that you need to keep your burn rate low. Cash flow out equates to burn rate, and the runway depends on your reserves.

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5 Ways To Conserve Investor Cash And Ensure Survival

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall. It doesn’t take a financial genius to recognize that you need to keep your burn rate low. Cash flow out equates to burn rate, and the runway depends on your reserves.

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Investors Measure Entrepreneurs By Cashflow Mileage

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall. It doesn’t take a financial genius to recognize that you need to keep your burn rate low. Cashflow out equates to burn rate, and the runway depends on your reserves.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money.

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5 Steps To Maximizing Your Startup Cash Flow Runway

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall. It doesn’t take a financial genius to recognize that you need to keep your burn rate low. Cash flow out equates to burn rate, and the runway depends on your reserves.

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How To Test The Startup Lifestyle Before You Commit

Startup Professionals Musings

Check Craigslist first, since most new ventures don’t have the money for executive search firms and the major job listing sites. As with any job search, always play to your strengths, and stick to business domains and roles you already know. Search online startup platforms and crowdfunding sites. Kick your networking up a notch.