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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. Subtract your monthly gross burn rate from your monthly revenue to get your net burn rate. All your assumptions about customers, sales cycle and most importantly, revenue, burn rate and runway are no longer true.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

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In fact, they generated $100k in revenues over the last year, since they first pitched at one of our roundtables. Blue Coin Last up, Sunil Sharma from Walnut Creek, California, presented Blue Coin, a loyalty program management platform and service catering to small to medium size businesses. Thursday, July 28, 2011: Register Here.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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First up was Brad Barrett presenting GrillGrate , a grill accessory with which Brad has built a year-to-date revenue of $400,000. With enterprise customers, this would result in tremendous exit barriers, making sales cycles long and involved, which a small startup will find hard to withstand. GrillGrate.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

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. More on that in a moment.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

ReadWriteStart

and a systematic affiliate marketing program. For enterprises and small businesses, managing a systematic sales cycle is crucial, and before having telemarketing reps call prospects, a few rounds of Stanzr events may be an efficient way to move them down the sales funnel. You can register for upcoming roundtables here.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: High-Octane Energy In Pune

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Manoj is experiencing a long sales cycle of close to 12 months, but he has already created a sustainable company that has revenues and profits. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Today, the financial picture of a CCS is updated only once a month in a batch process.

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270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

mashable.com

Invoice Journal – Free invoicing program. endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. clickbook – A free online booking and scheduling program. Conferences, Presentations & Meetings Expectnation – A conference program organizing software.