Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. These bubble startups were actually guessing at their business model and did premature and aggressive hype and early company launches and had extremely high burn rates – all predicated on an IPO to raise more cash. The Rise of the Lean Startup. And it may work. IPOs dried up.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Are startup burn rates out of control? Busting the Lean-Startup Myth – crowdspring.co/1ozOXHA. How Everything We Tell Ourselves About How Busy We Are Is A Lie | Fast Company – [link] crowdspring.co/1uH6HVo. They seem to be | AVC – crowdspring.co/1rbM5FT. Hiring startup engineers?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Even if you must launch to your customers, avoid the urge to also launch in extra places, just because your PR firm can do it at the same time. If you are having trouble raising money, sometimes a little PR can help. Help you raise money.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications. The passionate early adopters who flocked to the product at its launch could not sustain this outsized burn rate. As with many Silicon Valley failures, a flawless PR launch turned into a flawed customer acquisition strategy. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

In lean times, it’s most important to focus on cutting costs in ways that speed you up, not slow you down. Journalists, PR firms, investors, and the public at large love a scrappy come-from-behind story about two guys in a garage who figured out how to take down Goliath. Were talking PayPal -sized variations.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

We change the way PR gets done by connecting companies with relevant reporters. We are simplifying the process of getting featured (for companies) and curate PR content (for reporters). The “burn rate” indicates how much money a company is losing over a given period of time. Techstars Austin 2017' Hi there!

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The Startup Toolkit

JUNE 27, 2012

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. One way to think about premature scaling is as irreversible decisions.

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