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Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 14, 2023
Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 19, 2020
Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.
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Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 29, 2018
Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 5, 2014
Cashflow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical break even point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 15, 2010
Behind this analysis is a spreadsheet model, complete with detailed metrics for a set of customer behaviors that show just how valuable the new product will be. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off. Usually, they are delivering only a fraction of the revenue they promised.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal.
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