Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 18, 2013
They need to raise money before building anything substantial after determining that they needed a little dough to follow the Lean Startup methodology. The investors, founders, and “community” are all super excited about ASC. One of them used to be a lead developer at [insert hot consumer tech company here].
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 6, 2020
First in Wuhan, China, and then the fact that it can spread so quickly in Italy and continental Europe really surprises me and I think a lot of others as well in the scientific community. I think once we lean on the community, the community really has uplifted us to an even more promising stage. Eric Ries : First ever?
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Austin Startup
NOVEMBER 11, 2017
Evolution of the press release page seen by reporters Lesson 4: Cut your burn rate as quickly as you can Burn rate is essentially the rate at which your company is “burning” through its available cash. The “burn rate” indicates how much money a company is losing over a given period of time.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 15, 2020
They're going to look to see what impact you had in your community. 11:59) Giving people trust and autonomy and opening lines of communication as a leader, and how Mark's leadership has evolved. (14:16) 22:13) The way companies treat employees and customers and impact their communities now will them for decades to come.
Seeing Both Sides
MARCH 2, 2011
The foursquare team was consumed this week with SXSW preparations, but we were fortunate to have as class guests Charlie O'Donnell, who wrote the original blog post on foursquare that got many in the community excited about the company, and Andrew Parker, who was an associate at Union Square Ventures at the time of their Series A investment. .
The Startup Toolkit
JUNE 27, 2012
We, as a community, spend a lot of time encouraging ourselves to be more careful, more cautious, to gather more evidence. For example, it’s very hard to go back to your old burn rate once you’ve hired a VP sales and it’s hard to re-vamp your product focus after a big PR campaign.
Steve Blank
APRIL 20, 2009
The formation of the military/industrial/university relationships during the Cold War and the relationship between Stanford and the intelligence community in particular, went on untold and out of sight. But in fact, most startups need to keep their burn rate low more [.] to do that.
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