Burn Rate and Social Network

ProfessorVC: Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Got around to seeing The Social Network this past weekend. I did a little searching around the web to try and find a truth vs. fiction comparison, but the closest I found was "The 10 Most Glaring Lies In The Social Network" on the Business Insider. ProfessorVC.

Social Network

Social Network Networking Software Review San Jose

ProfessorVC: Burn Rate

Professor VC

JULY 22, 2009

The burn rates of my portfolio companies is certainly top of mind right now, but thats not what this post is about. Since Im not a fan of any of those genres, I have been looking forward to the release of his latest work, Burn Rate. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

Burn Rate

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Considering Facebook’s scale, the company is now in the business of operating power plants to operate its servers, therefore, Schippers estimates that Facebook has a $30 million dollar monthly burn rate just for hosting. Suddenly, those multi-million dollar financing rounds that startups raise don’t seem so outrageous! 4) WhatsApp.

Cost

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. No office space rental, no secretary, and no accountant are required. Technology costs.

Cost

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5 Things You Need to Learn Before Launching a Startup

ReadWriteStart

JULY 9, 2023

When you get funding, you need to monitor the burn rate in order not to go bankrupt or understand if you need to raise more money. Figure them out, monitor them regularly, and compare the ongoing period with the previous ones to see if you are growing, declining, or stuck.

Intellectual Property

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2019

Startups are regarded for their embrace of industry disruption, all the while constantly trying to limit their burn rate and conserving their capital for future growth. Their compelling format encourages users stay until the end of the content, and their results encourage shareability on social networks.

Marketing

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You Don’t Need to be Rich to be an Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. No office space rental, no secretary, and no accountant are required. Technology costs.

Entrepreneur

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. Computing will be an order of magnitude more mobile 10 years from now, changing the way applications are delivered and the way we interact with our real social networks. And Social. tl;dr summary. VCs were very active in this period.

Stock

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The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever

Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. No office space rental, no secretary, and no accountant are required. Technology costs.

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Be Part of the Entrepreneurial Revolution

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. No office space rental, no secretary, and no accountant are required. Technology costs. Marty Zwilling.

Burn Rate

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ProfessorVC: Are DEMO's days numbered?

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Bump.com is a social network based on license plate numbers as the identifier. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Bump - These guys got my vote for the Peoples Choice. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due.

Technical Review

Technical Review San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley

ProfessorVC: Card Counting for Investors

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

Technical Review

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ProfessorVC: Crowdfunding - Good Idea or Really, Really Stupid.

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

SEC

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. Huge funding increases lead to massive wage inflation, rent inflation and thus higher burn rates. They had no such motive and no such power. Even Sequoia.

Valuation

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ProfessorVC: How Much Diligence is Due.

Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ▼ January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

Technical Review

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ProfessorVC: Bootstrapping 101

Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

Bootstrapping

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ProfessorVC: Why I Hate Convertible Debt.Let Me Count the Ways

Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

San Jose

San Jose Technical Review Angel Investor Valuation

ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ▼ 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

Term Sheet

Term Sheet Angel Investor San Jose Venture Capital

ProfessorVC: What does it take to be an Angel Investor?

Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

Angel Investor

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ProfessorVC: Baby's All Grown Up

Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

San Jose

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ProfessorVC: Why didn't I think of that??

Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

San Jose

San Jose Silicon Valley Technical Review Angel Investor

25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Title: Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet. In a May 2008 blog post, The Challenges of Location-Based Social Networking , I include a few excerpts from his post-mortem, in which he essentially predicts FourSquare: Most importantly, there was a “location problem”. Lots of lessons here!

Software Review

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting

ProfessorVC: Is the Grass Really Greener on the Dark Side?

Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2008

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

San Jose

San Jose Technical Review Angel Investor Venture Capital

ProfessorVC: Is it the Horse or Jockey?

Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2008

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

San Jose

San Jose Technical Review Norway Angel Investor

ProfessorVC: Man Camp

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

Oregon

Oregon San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley

ProfessorVC: 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

Technical Review

Technical Review San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley

ProfessorVC: Where did Summer Go?

Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

San Jose

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22 Entrepreneurs Share Their Thoughts on The Future of Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

JULY 7, 2019

To build an app, you can purchase a cheap Chromebook, connect to an incredibly powerful array of supercomputers for next to no cost on AWS, and you can distribute your minimally viable product across large social networks like Linkedin and Facebook with just a key stroke. 10- Solopreneurs will join other progressive businesses.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Distribution Employee Arizona

Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

And even worse, wed cranked up the burn rate in order to be ready to handle all those millions of mainstream customers we anticipated. Launching is about creating circles within circles (groups of people that connect) and social networking, word of mouth, and real-world advertising are all contributing factors.

San Francisco

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage

ProfessorVC: Brickbreaker - Mindless Amusement or Viscious.

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

San Jose

San Jose Technical Review Angel Investor Silicon Valley

ProfessorVC: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

San Jose

San Jose Silicon Valley Las Vegas Venture Capital

ProfessorVC: Buyer's Remorse

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

San Jose

San Jose Technical Review Venture Capital Angel Investor

ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

Pre-Money Valuation

Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation

Figuring Out FourSquare

Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 2, 2011

The students concluded that the context around a venture matters tremendously - that smart phones, the explosion of apps and social networking all were important enablers that allowed foursquare to succeed at this particular moment in time. Modest burn : the company only raised $1.35 Advertising isn't cool.").

API

API Valuation Lean Burn Rate

ProfessorVC: Would a Dart Board Provide better VC Returns?

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

A Comparison Between Novice and Serial Entrepreneurs" Her research shows that there is a positive correlation between prior founding experience and new venture performance due to stronger and more diverse social networks, access to capital, reliance on collaborators and other factors. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal.

San Jose

San Jose Silicon Valley Venture Capital Angel Investor

ProfessorVC: Don't Stop Believin'

Professor VC

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ▼ 2010. (7). ▼ October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

San Jose

San Jose San Francisco Angel Investor Silicon Valley

ProfessorVC: Do you have a U.S. Strategy?

Professor VC

JULY 2, 2010

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ▼ 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ▼ July. (1).

San Jose

San Jose Silicon Valley Venture Capital Angel Investor

ProfessorVC: Waah.Do I have to build a financial model?

Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley San Jose Hockey Stick Venture Capital

ProfessorVC: Watch Out for the Red W(h)ine

Professor VC

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

Angel Investor

Angel Investor Due Diligence San Jose Silicon Valley

ProfessorVC: Rebuild our Inner Cities one Venture at a time?

Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley San Jose America Venture Capital

ProfessorVC: Who does this ProfessorVC think he is?

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley San Jose Angel Investor Venture Capital

ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

San Jose

San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital

ProfessorVC: Academically challenged

Professor VC

MAY 6, 2008

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

San Jose

San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley Burn Rate

ProfessorVC: CFO's - More Guardian, Less Angel?

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ► 2010. (7). ► October. (2). ► September. (2). Are DEMO's days numbered? Angie's List or AngelList? ► July. (1).

Angel Groups

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