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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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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

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They can show the projections on what this does to burn rate. Legal threats from other IP holders? We hired Steve Pease to run finance and then eventually all operations and it has transformed how we operate. I’d like to give you some actual examples and also talk about the role they play. On and on and on.

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3 Ways Structure Can Take Your Tech Startup To New Heights

YoungUpstarts

Use burn rate as an example. If you don’t understand how much money your company is burning through each month, how can you expect to intelligently talk about your fiscal health? Look no further than Google and Oracle , and you’ll see that no company is immune from IP impasses. Read your books from cover to cover.

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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

YoungUpstarts

Founders need seed capital to get their operations up and running, and to begin generating revenue. Compounding the problem, founders often ramp up expenses and their burn rate as they collect fundraising debt, always expecting better performance to be just around the corner, and being prepared for the next round. .

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