Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall. It doesn’t take a financial genius to recognize that you need to keep your burn rate low. Cash flow out equates to burn rate, and the runway depends on your reserves.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

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. Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

These steps alone can reduce your monthly burn rate by at least $10K. Social media facilitates marketing and sales. For startups, social media and color printers have essentially replaced the need for external public relations and marketing services. Use the cloud and subscriptions for computing technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2014

There are many networking groups on FaceBook, LinkedIn, and others social media sites, which can help you increase your odds of finding a match early. What is the startup cash burn rate per month? Kick your networking up a notch. How much money has been invested so far? Are more investment rounds required (runway)?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2015

There are many networking groups on FaceBook, LinkedIn, and others social media sites, which can help you increase your odds of finding a match early. What is the startup cash burn rate per month? Every geographic area has entrepreneur networking activities, such as startup weekends and tech meetups.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Considering Facebook’s scale, the company is now in the business of operating power plants to operate its servers, therefore, Schippers estimates that Facebook has a $30 million dollar monthly burn rate just for hosting. Design & Dev Entrepreneur Social Media Analysis and Opinion Investigations' 4) WhatsApp.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

These steps alone can reduce your monthly burn rate by at least $10K. Social media facilitates marketing and sales. For startups, social media and color printers have essentially replaced the need for external public relations and marketing services. Use the cloud and subscriptions for computing technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

What should the cash burn rate of the company be and how long of a cash runway should the company maintain? Some board members spend all of their time in the meeting on electronic devices doing email or even checking social media. What are the kinds of difficult tasks that need to be solved by boards?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2019

Startups are regarded for their embrace of industry disruption, all the while constantly trying to limit their burn rate and conserving their capital for future growth. They encourage users to stick with content until the end, enjoy successful lead conversion and prompt social media sharing – all in one easy to create experience.

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VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

In fact, they were screaming at them to dramatically reduce their burn rates. Angel investment, which was small to start with, disappeared, and most corporate VCs shut down. VC’s were no longer insisting that startups spend faster, and “swing for the fences”. It was a nuclear winter for startup capital.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

We live in a social media universe now and all of them, particularly in the NBA, have very large platforms. And the good news is they're social media babies, right? All of us are getting these awful messages on social media, by email. They hear the fear in their friends' parents voices. What are you doing?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

We do like to talk about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Don’t Get Burned by Your Burn Rate – crowdspring.co/159KKrk. 4 Festive Tips for Holiday Social-Media Marketing – crowdspring.co/1v6Fr0z.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

They had a very expensive burn rate at the wrong time. Social, Facebook, and Twitter referral is meaningful. Do you think the impact of social media is effecting Google’s search business? (42:00 Why do you think Veoh didn’t succeed? (40:30 40:30 –41:30). They had a great team and interesting technologies.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Day 2 featured the consumer and social media, which were more interesting for me and much of the audience. My fears were met on Day 1 with many presentations being unpolished, several me-too ideas and a general malaise. To be fair, the Day 1 categories were primarily infrastructure companies (Enterprise, Cloud and Mobile).

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 10, 2020

It’s got a big burn rate, it’s too big to pivot, and it goes bust. And as you get bigger, NPS and engagement metrics start to become relevant: how frequently people come back to your site, how long they spend there, how much they talk about you on social media etc. And everyone’s lost a lot of money.

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Transformify

AUGUST 27, 2017

Their investors may push them into that direction too, as the high burn rate is often seen as a prerequisite for high growth. You don’t have the right people on board, you are burning cash and the work is not done, at its worst, your product is already live and you are losing clients due to software bugs and poor user experience.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Nelson has some tips: Know your burn rate. Buffer helps you with managing and scheduling your social media posts. When you’re starting a business to build your own luck, you don’t often have a lot of start up capital. How do you balance it all? Lindsay’s workspace.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

Eric Ries : That's a remarkable use of social media. Eric Ries : I got to tell you, I have seen so many examples of that kind of thing, where these technologies that we took for granted before or even derided as not especially socially useful, have enabled people to collaborate in unprecedented ways and unprecedented speed.

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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. We used social media to get alpha users as outlined here during Feburary. Worse, we tricked ourselves into thinking that what the press said about our success was actually true.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Community was about things we didn’t have as much familiarity with, i.e., social media, game mechanics, community building, etc. Title: Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet. Company: Wolff New Media. Bottom line – We are data guys. We’re good at data. We like data. Lots of lessons here!

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2018

With the rise of social media has come the rise of influencers — mini-celebrities with a following specific to an affinity or interest area. Social media has democratized “celebritydom” and in the process created a marketing phenomenon. Interestingly, WOM explains why the “influencer” market has become so prolific.

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