Burn Rate Engineer Hiring Lean 
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup.
Mucker Lab
MAY 28, 2020
Hire the wrong people. Bad hiring decisions are often a symptom of premature scaling. Why hire a sales team when you have nothing to sell yet? That sounds absurd, but founders convince themselves that they’ve hired the right people at the right moment. Be trigger shy about hiring. Honestly, we don’t know.”?
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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. How many people will you hire in the first 24 months and in which sequence. Don’t know the running rate for engineers? This is where I spend most of my time.
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. They close on the $750k, hire a buddy or two, buy some Macs, and get to work. At month six, one of the early hires leaves, a developer who turns out wasn’t a good fit.
crowdSPRING Blog
SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
Are startup burn rates out of control? This Invaluable Lesson Will Keep You From Making Catastrophic Hiring Mistakes - crowdspring.co/XeV4JS. Hiring startup engineers? Busting the Lean-Startup Myth – crowdspring.co/1ozOXHA. They seem to be | AVC – crowdspring.co/1rbM5FT. 1ozOXHA.
Steve Blank
APRIL 20, 2009
By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. And these microwave engineers were working at startups – not large companies.
techcrunch.com
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
He knows how to advise entrepreneurs on hiring/firing, running teams, managing funding, when/how to control burn rate, and making other tough management decisions in the real environment of startups. Having this kind of advisor as your coach is like turbo-charging your entrepreneurial engine from the sidelines.
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