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The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup

Steve Blank

They have fewer cash reserves and less margin of error for managing sudden downturns. Next, take a look at your actual revenue each month – not forecast, but real revenue coming in each month. All your assumptions about customers, sales cycle and most importantly, revenue, burn rate and runway are no longer true.

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When Is the Right Time to Pay Yourself a Salary?

Up and Running

Though that level of restraint may mean living quite “lean” in your personal life for a while, doing so provides an opportunity to establish solid footing for your business as early as possible, so that you have at least one year to learn from the trends and sales cycles that will emerge once you’re past “break even.”

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Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs

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SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? SolidWorks 3: The best VAR management program in the world? Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams. The company has just missed its quarterly revenue forecast.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

Panel: Cary Davis , Managing Director, Warburg Pincus, Moderator: Ben Fried, Chief Information Officer, Google, runs in-house technology. We’re advising and relationship management, at the end of the day. The trick is delivering business insights over this channel: use social networks to support relationship management.

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A practical guide to a first board meeting: Advice from the pros

This is going to be BIG.

" I like to engage with the management team and help them build the business. You have to let the entrepreneurs and management team operate the business and make all the key decisions. Don’t allow computers, iPhones or Blackberries” Howard Morgan, First Round Capital : “ Board responsibilities: Read the stuff before you get there.