Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

They can iterate and evolve their business idea with a low burn rate and minimal dependencies. On the other hand, don’t forget angel investors, who fund a large number of startups, to the tune of $25 billion last year, who start their search primarily from platforms like the ones mentioned above.

Business Plan 316

Business Plan Technical Review Angel Investor Due Diligence 316

Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

Startups operate quickly – at a speed driven by the urgency of a proverbial gun-to-their-head called “burn rate.” their burn rate (the amount of money they’re spending monthly minus any revenue coming in) and. . —– Urgency Drives Innovation Speed.

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Customer Development Design Developer Customer 335

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2014

Check Craigslist first, since most new ventures don’t have the money for executive search firms and the major job listing sites. As with any job search, always play to your strengths, and stick to business domains and roles you already know. Search online startup platforms and crowdfunding sites.

Technical Review 250

Technical Review Stock Options Due Diligence Silicon Valley 250

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

They can iterate and evolve their business idea with a low burn rate and minimal dependencies. On the other hand, don’t forget Angel investors, who fund 60 times as many startups, to the tune of $20 billion last year, who start their search primarily from platforms like the ones mentioned above.

Business Plan 274

Business Plan Technical Review Angel Investor Due Diligence 274

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Your startup is an organization built to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. The next step in the Customer Development process is Customer Validation – making sure that there really is a repeatable and scalable revenue and business model before you turn up your cash burn rate.

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Customer Development Web Developer Customer 266

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Check Craigslist first, since most new ventures don’t have the money for executive search firms and the major job listing sites. As with any job search, always play to your strengths, and stick to business domains and roles you already know. Search online startup platforms and crowdfunding sites.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Entrepreneur Stock Options Due Diligence 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. The Customer Development process (and the Lean Startup) is one way to do that.

Lean 244

Lean Silicon Valley Startup RSS 244

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

The company with no revenue and a $150k burn rate that raised $2.5 In this situation I think we should be increasing burn rate and not immediately focusing on revenue [I do sometimes believe this]. If we do that and you lower your burn rate then you’ll have more time to prove things out before we fund raise.

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Burn Rate Dilution Revenue Valuation 412

Tim Keane

DECEMBER 14, 2009

  A low burn rate is a pearl of great price.    It provides lots of options that high burn rates take away.    A low burn rate is a pearl of great price.    It provides lots of options that high burn rates take away.    Absolutely.

Burn Rate 60

Burn Rate Angel Groups Seed Stage Startup 60

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

It assumes the purpose of a startup is the search for a business model (not execution.) If we accept that startups are engaged in the search for a business model, we recognize that radical shifts in a startups business model are the norm, rather than the exception. Business Model Design and Customer Development Stack.

Burn Rate 247

Burn Rate Management Business Model Customer Development 247

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Startups that are searching for a business model need to keep score differently than large companies that are executing a known business model. A startup is a search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Startups need metrics to monitor how well their search for a business model is going. Here’s why. Startup Metrics.

Balance Sheet 298

Balance Sheet Startup Burn Rate Metrics 298

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Technology costs.

Cost 255

Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 255

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. The only numbers in those documents that are important in the first year of a startup’s life are burn rate and cash balance. The Wrong Discussion s.

Silicon Valley 290

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 290

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

Other weeks Yuri would be buffeted by the realities of his burn rate, declining bank account and depressing comments from customers. that couldn’t change before he declares “we’re building the wrong product.” Find a Brainstorm Buddy.

Founder 316

Founder Cofounder Advisory Board Burn Rate 316

OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Executive search is slow and expensive, and it produces expensive full-time executives. And no matter how good an executive search firm is, I’ve never met a CEO who has a better than 50% success rate in hiring new leaders from the outside. But those searches are really disorganized or one-off.

Burn Rate 71

Burn Rate Leadership Search Curation 71

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Highland Capital did a systematic search for who could build a stand-alone contextual ad search company and met with six or seven companies including Mike. They had a very expensive burn rate at the wrong time. A lot of the traffic comes from search. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search.

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. The only numbers in those documents that are important in the first year of a startup’s life are burn rate and cash balance. The Wrong Discussion s.

Silicon Valley 258

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 258

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

How we doubled the scrolling rate of the Babbler Newsfeed: by changing the search system, show more stories before scrolling and refreshing the UI. The “burn rate” indicates how much money a company is losing over a given period of time. This is usually represented in terms of months.

Burn Rate 54

Burn Rate Product Cofounder PR 54

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Technology costs.

Entrepreneur 235

Entrepreneur Burn Rate SEM Social Network 235

K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

In most cases the resume will end up in a resume bank, which will also be searched electronically. So if you really want to optimize your chances for showing up in search results and also being reviewed more favorably, then provide more detail than less. This doesn’t mean that you start writing essays in your resume.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Venture Capital Michigan Burn Rate 48

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2016

Startups generally don’t have the money or time for executive searches or large job boards, and many don’t even know what to look for. Be prepared to ask some hard questions, including current traction, burn rate, and runway before the next cash infusion. Make a list of questions to validate viability.

Startup 120

Startup Burn Rate Cofounder Salary 120

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

The full formula works like this: runway = cash on hand / burn rate # iterations = runway / speed of each iteration Very few successful companies ended up in the same exact business that the founders thought theyd be in (see Founders at Work for dozens of examples). Were talking PayPal -sized variations.

San Francisco 117

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 117

OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Executive search is slow and expensive, and it produces expensive full-time executives. And no matter how good an executive search firm is, I’ve never met a CEO who has a better than 50% success rate in hiring new leaders from the outside. But those searches are really disorganized or one-off.

Burn Rate 48

Burn Rate Leadership Search Curation 48

Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM), like cohort analysis , yourself. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase.

Cost 139

Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 139

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

Eric Ries : So, it's an unbelievably complicated and large search base. Alpha Lee : It's an unbelievably complicated search base. We would literally be talking about a chemist at the whiteboard or using their imagination trying to cut down on this search base somehow, and that's why it was so time consuming.

Artificial Inteligence 60

Artificial Inteligence Open Source Cofounder Design 60

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Technology costs.

Burn Rate 125

Burn Rate SEM Social Network Angel Investor 125

Up and Running

MAY 22, 2018

There is a tool called Google Keyword Planner that gives you insights into what people are searching related to your product, as well as search volume. Not only will this give you an idea of what people are thinking and searching, it will also give you the opportunity to tweak your product idea as per the demand.

Exit Strategy 90

Exit Strategy Angel Investor Search Elevator Pitch 90

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

The passionate early adopters who flocked to the product at its launch could not sustain this outsized burn rate. Worse was the large staff in departments appropriate to a mainstream-scale product, especially in customer service and QA. We can capitalize on new customers.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco Lean Agile Continuous Deployment 150

The Equity Kicker

JULY 16, 2015

Companies with lots of cash sometimes add people more quickly, but that drives the burn rate up, often without a compensating increase in the chance of success. Search for a point of deep emotional resonance with customers – research work.

eCommerce 60

eCommerce Burn Rate Early Stage Hiring 60

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. The only numbers in those documents that are important in the first year of a startup's life are burn rate and cash balance.

Silicon Valley 117

Silicon Valley Balance Sheet Metrics Early Stage 117

Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

If you’re in a really crowded area, let’s pretend one of you is selling flowers and competing in the online flower market, it’s going to be really hard to rank in search engines. From an SEO perspective, you can go and use Google Tools and find out how many people search on certain keywords.

Metrics 84

Metrics Startup Churn Rate Forecast 84

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

VoiceBase - Transcription and search of voice communications (presentations, conference calls, etc.) Scayl -A slick way to email huge files, including HD Video. TuneUp - iTunes plug-in that cleans up your music library. FootFeed - The only Day 1 company on my list. A check-in aggregation platform. Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

Technical Review 38

Technical Review San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley 38

Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I did a little searching around the web to try and find a truth vs. fiction comparison, but the closest I found was "The 10 Most Glaring Lies In The Social Network" on the Business Insider. The move topped the box office for the second straight weekend and has grossed $46M in less than two weeks. Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? ► May.

Social Network 28

Social Network Networking Software Review San Jose 28

Hearpreneur

JULY 7, 2019

I believe that there will be a significant increase in home-based entrepreneurs as automation and productivity technologies such as VR and voice search will help to eliminate mundane tasks and allow for business owners to be more efficient. Photo Credit: Chaz Van de Motter. 10- Solopreneurs will join other progressive businesses.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Distribution Employee Arizona 93

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

And even worse, wed cranked up the burn rate in order to be ready to handle all those millions of mainstream customers we anticipated. Worse, we tricked ourselves into thinking that what the press said about our success was actually true. When they failed to materialize, the company was in big trouble.

San Francisco 168

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

It is several thousand dollars, which is a lot of cash for a struggling entrepreneur in search of seed funding. Mind you, this is not a $20 fee to cover printing nametags and making copying an executive summary into a book. Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? ► October. (1). Watch Out for the Red W(h)ine. ► September. (1).

Pre-Money Valuation 28

Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

Follow PandoDaily: Search. While a 21-year-old with no mortgage, no girlfriend and a low-burn rate may have nothing to lose, a 40-year old with a career, a mortgage and kids has everything to lose. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Get Tickets. Fireside Chat with Mark Pincus. Post navigation. ← Previous.

Entrepreneur 45

Entrepreneur San Francisco Silicon Valley Technical Review 45