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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

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.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. The Rise of the Lean Startup. And it may work. IPOs dried up.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare). Tell us more about MetaCafe? (37:00-40:30).

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Blue Collar VC

Mucker Lab

With a well-capitalized fund, great LPs, and a solid portfolio, we are privileged to continue serving exceptional entrepreneurs. We’ve been doing Internet stuff our whole careers, since the graphical web became a mass-market, commercial medium in the 1990s. We are consumed with generating great returns for our limited partners.

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

Someone would put a radio next to it in Bloomington and we were like, "This internet thing has got to have a better way." You really have to lean in and say, "Okay. So anyone in your portfolio, or anyone that you've been talking to have an example of something like that, or impressed you with something? You can't fall back.

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An Inside Scoop on the Funding Environment and What it Might Mean for You

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They either had a portfolio company in market and weren’t getting offers as quickly as expected or they knew a friend in the biz who was recounting this to them in a session VCs strangely call “comparing notes.”. We had grown into a more reasonable burn rate so raising capital meant we would have many years of cash on the balance sheet.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Thin line between life and death of internet service is a number of users. Hiring is hard, and without proper experience, we should have leaned more heavily on our investors to help us with this decision. Title: The Leap: A Memoir of Love and Madness in the Internet Gold Rush. Company: Home Portfolio. Company : Overto.