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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. So if your costs are $500,000 per month and you have $350,000 per month in revenue then your net burn (500-350) is equal to $150,000.

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The top 10 companies investing billions in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

The company’s decision to increase the price of the two year old Quest 2 by $100 (citing rising costs) and a weak performance in Q2 2022 are showing the growing pains of this transition: Facebook dropped in revenue for the first time , and Reality Labs brought in $452 million in revenue over the quarter. but still lost $2.8

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Given these key advantages, I believe that Lightning (or something like it) will ultimately eat all of the USD payment networks and create the foundation for MoIP (Money over IP). . Other products like Sparkswap, which allowed users to buy Lightning BTC via atomic swaps, faced the same challenge. 3) Exchanges + HFTs.

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Cornell Tech Company: Agronomic Technology Corp (Part 1), Guest Post by Deb Eichten

ithacaVC

The resulting product adapt-N has become the initial offering of Agronomic Technology. There are actually four people named on the IP and it was a multi-disciplinary project…This was the first product to come out of our department.”. Today that same type of utility can be executed at a very small percentage of that cost.

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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

It’s such a tricky balance between being cost-focused & scrappy versus being impractical with how you spend your time. I can’t tell you how many people have thanked me for this advice and say their productivity increased exponentially. If I could bottle this moment and spend all my time here I would be in heaven.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. This team is talented.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. It’s up from 40 minutes in July 2014. Even by July 2014, Facebook’s core application had effectively saturated the US market, with more than 80% of US adults on Facebook.