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The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup

Steve Blank

Next, take a look at your actual revenue each month – not forecast, but real revenue coming in each month. All your assumptions about customers, sales cycle and most importantly, revenue, burn rate and runway are no longer true. If you are selling to businesses (a B-to-B market) have your customers’ sales dropped?

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

Sales cycle can often go into something like co-development. 2-18 month sales cycle. The public markets are forecasting that. LYONS: You have to encourage companies to pay attention to these entrepreneurs. At my prior company, we structured programs to encourage doing business with smaller companies.

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When Is the Right Time to Pay Yourself a Salary?

Up and Running

Though that level of restraint may mean living quite “lean” in your personal life for a while, doing so provides an opportunity to establish solid footing for your business as early as possible, so that you have at least one year to learn from the trends and sales cycles that will emerge once you’re past “break even.”

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Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

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A practical guide to a first board meeting: Advice from the pros

This is going to be BIG.

Each board pack should have the history of performance over the past year, a comparison of performance relative to plan and your forecasts going forward. Don’t allow computers, iPhones or Blackberries” Howard Morgan, First Round Capital : “ Board responsibilities: Read the stuff before you get there. Understand variances from plan.