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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 In startup world low GM almost always equals death which is why many Internet retailers have failed or are failing (many operated at 35% gross margins). In these kinds of businesses I’m on the record as advising “ Ring the Freakin Cash Register.”

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

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He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank. The answer?