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Book: Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind

Feld Thoughts

Andy Dunn , who I only know indirectly, wrote an important book titled Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind. While there might be other entrepreneur autobiographies like Burn Rate , I can’t think of any. The City of New York charged me with misdemeanor assault and felony assault of a senior citizen.” “Has

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

It’s really difficult for me not to get into the thick of discussions about whether or not you can and/or should build a company in New York City. If your first resort when you have trouble raising money is to complain about New York on a tech blog, you’re really doing yourself a disservice in the relationship building area.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

Henrik Werdelin , the Managing Partner of Prehype , a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable , Barkbox , FancyHands , Basno and Path , says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. 1) Twitter. 4) WhatsApp.

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ProfessorVC: Burn Rate

Professor VC

The burn rates of my portfolio companies is certainly top of mind right now, but thats not what this post is about. Since Im not a fan of any of those genres, I have been looking forward to the release of his latest work, Burn Rate. The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (2/10) – Street Smarts

Both Sides of the Table

On social conventions: Two years ago I was in New York and I called the little brother of one of my wife’s best friends from Wharton. I just knew that our sales sucked wind and we were burning through tons of cash. I advocated LOUDLY at the board that we needed to cut our burn rate. We were SMOKING cash.

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Mapping The Haystack Portfolio Across The United States

Haystack

You will see the majority are in the Bay Area, and then New York City, and a bit more around LA and Seattle — and things get really scattered. This is all happening, of course, to a region that doesn’t have a modern public transportation system.

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Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

Silicon Valley, New York). Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. The only numbers in those documents that are important in the first year of a startup’s life are burn rate and cash balance. Here’s how.