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Startups: Avoid These Inner-Series Mistakes When Scaling Your Business

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by Everett Harper, CEO and cofounder of Truss. While additional personnel is crucial to scale the product, misaligned hires will increase burn rate without a concurrent jump in productivity and meaningful growth. Avoiding churn is also key in monitoring burn rate. At Women 2.0

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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

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Ten years ago, Ward Cunningham published a Youtube video that introduced the concept of “technical debt” to the world. Compounding the problem, founders often ramp up expenses and their burn rate as they collect fundraising debt, always expecting better performance to be just around the corner, and being prepared for the next round. .

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