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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

As the farm fields flew by on the interstate I listened as Dave described how he translated his vision into a series of hypotheses and mapped them onto a business model canvas. Speed keeps cash burn rate down while allowing you to converge on a repeatable and scalable business model. Customer Discovery.

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5 Things You Need to Learn Before Launching a Startup

ReadWriteStart

They impact fundraising, hiring, intellectual property rights and patents, and many more things around starting and running a business. You can hire a lawyer or consult with one from time to time, but knowing the legal side of venture investment and running a company is essential. A good founder is always a good communicator.

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9 Metrics Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Their Business Offhand

Up and Running

After all, a sustainable business model requires repeat customers! This impacts every decision related to your business, from hiring more staff to expanding product offerings to investing in marketing. – Ben Rubenstein , Yodle. I believe all entrepreneurs should know their business. No Specific Metric.

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ProfessorVC: Burn Rate

Professor VC

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. ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Wednesday, July 22, 2009. Steve Bennet.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Post-Mortem Title : My eHarmony for Hiring Failure. I was manifesting this huge monolithic application in my head that would revolutionize the job search, I had even written some code at this point, and didn’t have any idea if actual businesses were willing to pay a dime for it. We had the wrong business model.

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ProfessorVC: Crowdfunding - Good Idea or Really, Really Stupid.

Professor VC

Since small businesses are responsible for the vast majority of new jobs, legislators believe that these new rules will make it easier for entrepreneurs to raise capital and ramp up hiring. in fees is a hefty transaction fee considering company will still have legal and other fees on the financing. 7.5 - 10.5% Daniel Sisson.

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Silicon Valley Frontlines: Two Tales of "Working For Equity"

philipsmith.typepad.com

a year burn rate and your equity is worthless due to numerous recapitalizations and bridge loans from investors then either you don't get it or I'm stupid to do it. Looks like you should have hired a CFO a long time ago! New Business Models. Tech Business Environment. Don't get me wrong.