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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. Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall. Be a miser with contract services and facilities.

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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. Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall. Be a miser with contract services and facilities.

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. Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall. Be a miser with contract services and facilities.

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. Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall. Be a miser with contract services and facilities.

Burn Rate 262
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7 Ways To Preclude The Most Common Investor Rejection

Startup Professionals Musings

Traction is evidence that your product or service has started that “hockey- stick” adoption rate which implies a large market, a valid business model, and sustainable growth. A graph that shows a hockey-stick “up and to the right” curve with at least three data points per key indicator is a great visual assist.

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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. Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall. Be a miser with contract services and facilities.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. “Too Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised from angels.