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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. Danielle goes through some commentary from Bill Gurley, Fred Wilson and Marc Andreessen about burn rate and then goes on to discuss her own burn rate and others publicly weigh in.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet. Probably the internet helped because they needed internet skills in their strategy group. Be an intern” And by the way, this is 2009.

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ProfessorVC: Burn Rate

Professor VC

Wednesday, July 22, 2009. The burn rates of my portfolio companies is certainly top of mind right now, but thats not what this post is about. Since Im not a fan of any of those genres, I have been looking forward to the release of his latest work, Burn Rate. July 28, 2009 5:42 PM. ▼ 2009. (7).

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Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. And most startup code and features end up on the floor as customers never really wanted them.

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ProfessorVC: Why didn't I think of that??

Professor VC

Unforgettable treasures will provide micro-loans to third world crafts artists to enable them to build their business and will also market their wares through the Internet. ► 2009. (7). She has developed a new twist on the micro-lending concept. She is planning on starting the business upon graduation. ► February. (1).

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ProfessorVC: 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship

Professor VC

Jeff founded StubHub during the dotcom bust and funding for consumer Internet companies was disappearing rapidly. ► 2009. (7). He definitely had a lot of people tell him that it couldnt be done. Go with Your Gut - This certainly goes hand in hand with challenging the status quo. ► February. (1). ► November. (1).

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? And even worse, wed cranked up the burn rate in order to be ready to handle all those millions of mainstream customers we anticipated. Great article. Cannon said.