Burn Rate Engineer Lean Technical Review 
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. Danielle goes through some commentary from Bill Gurley, Fred Wilson and Marc Andreessen about burn rate and then goes on to discuss her own burn rate and others publicly weigh in.
Mucker Lab
MAY 28, 2020
Compass.co, a benchmarking and research service, analyzed 3,200 internet startups and found that 74 percent “fail due to premature scaling.” Until you have product-market fit, hire builders: engineers, designers, and growth and product people. Sometimes founders misapply lean startup methodology. 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. Usually in a tech / software startup 70-80% of your costs will be people. Don’t know the running rate for engineers? Each quarter you should review your model.
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.
crowdSPRING Blog
SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
Inside the Mind of a Technical Founder | OpenView Blog by Larry Kim – crowdspring.co/1u7Fz1b. Are startup burn rates out of control? Hiring startup engineers? Busting the Lean-Startup Myth – crowdspring.co/1ozOXHA. The Myth of Venture Capital | Re/code by Jon Oringer – crowdspring.co/1tNFeV7.
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 18, 2013
One of them used to be a lead developer at [insert hot consumer tech company here]. They need to raise money before building anything substantial after determining that they needed a little dough to follow the Lean Startup methodology. In startup time, that feels like forever. The year would have been a full year, not just 7-9 months.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 30, 2009
Build a world-class technology platform, with patent-pending algorithms and the ability to scale to millions of simultaneous users. After years of engineering effort, changing these assumptions was incredibly hard. As far as I know, there are no products that are immune from the technology life cycle adoption curve.
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