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5 Keys To A Viable Spending Rate And Cash Management

Startup Professionals Musings

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Use social media for early marketing. Social media is not rocket science. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself.

Burn Rate 258
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5 Ways To Conserve Investor Cash And Ensure Survival

Startup Professionals Musings

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Use social media for early marketing. Social media is not rocket science. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself.

Burn Rate 310
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5 Keys To Minimizing The Burn Rate For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Use social media for early marketing. Social media is not rocket science. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself.

Burn Rate 223
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Investors Measure Entrepreneurs By Cashflow Mileage

Startup Professionals Musings

Cashflow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical break even point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Use social media for early marketing. Social media is not rocket science. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself.

Burn Rate 262
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5 Steps To Maximizing Your Startup Cash Flow Runway

Startup Professionals Musings

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Use social media for early marketing. Social media is not rocket science. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself.

Burn Rate 120
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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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How to Find Hundreds of Business Ideas

Up and Running

At Palo Alto Software, we use our own product – LivePlan – to manage and keep track of key business metrics. When you play unicycle hockey, you typically use a unicycle, an ice-hockey stick and a tennis ball. James Shields uses an ice hockey stick during a serious unicycle hockey competition.