Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. It is not a strong bargaining position for the CEO to ask for money to complete a product promised for completion with the previous round of funding.

Silicon Valley 118

Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 118

Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. It is not a strong bargaining position for the CEO to ask for money to complete a product promised for completion with the previous round of funding.

Silicon Valley 97

Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 97

Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

It is not a strong bargaining position for the CEO to ask for money to complete a product promised for completion with the previous round of funding. Not long after, the company was sold in a “fire sale” amounting to slightly less than the debt on the books. All investors, including the VC firm, lost everything.

Silicon Valley 85

Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 85

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) Sales people cost money, and when they’re not bringing in revenue, their wandering in the woods is time consuming, cash-draining and demoralizing.

Lean 250

Lean Silicon Valley Startup RSS 250

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed. And they don’t buy sales-force automation software, they rent on Salesforce.com. Marc Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22