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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

Gross Burn vs. Net Burn. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it Net burn is the amount of money you are losing per month. I often see companies burning $100,000 per month (net) looking to raise $6-8 million.

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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. Case Foundation didn’t have a website until 2005, although founded 1997. We invest in Code for America (“Peace Corps for Geeks”).

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Business Week Report on “Radical Future of R&D” Misses Critical Capital Markets Link in Innovation Ecosystem

Pascal's View

economy created a net 22 million jobs, or 2.2 “… in recent years, outsourced software and manufacturing jobs have largely been replaced by millions of low-wage service jobs in fast-food, retail, and the like. In the 1990s the U.S. million a year. But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year.

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Pop-ups — Is Annoying Your Customers Worth a Few Newsletter Sign-ups?

Up and Running

By 1997, the pop-up plague had spread to sites across the net, including Geocities, AOL, and The New York Times. Adware (software built primarily to advertise to users) like Gator began to appear. The pop-up ad was designed to dissociate the advertisement from the content on the page and protect the advertiser’s brand. .

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

Thousands of people around the net participated in a vast, spontaneous discussion that explored issues like mandatory overtime, productivity, job portability, laziness, unionization, lawsuits and the general evil of corporations. Ive spent 20 years developing and managing software projects. The next few hours tend to be our best ones.

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Leadership Lessons To Help Guide You To Excellence

Duct Tape Marketing

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! That makes me sound like a genius today, But the point was 25 years ago that when you went to work for Hewlett, what's 25 years ago is 97, when you went to work for Hewlett Packard in 1997, you expected to be there for the next 40 years. Connect with Tom on Twitter: @tom_peters.

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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

What is your advice to someone who has financial strain due to a startup? Long days are not a matter of “coding for 14 hours&# or “writing for 14 hours&# or “ __ for 14 hours.&# I do have the work life balance reasonably well tuned now , incidentally. I do want to comment on the 14 hour day folks. Life is good.