Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 14, 2023
Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. 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. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 19, 2020
Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. 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. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself.
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Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 29, 2018
Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. 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. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 5, 2014
Cashflow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical break even point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. 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. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. 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. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself.
Version One Ventures
OCTOBER 31, 2016
As an investor and former founder, I know that scalable growth (and the pretty hockey stick graph) is the holy grail for every startup. When is the right time to hire a growth person? And usually by Series B, startups start hiring a growth team. And Andrew understands growth strategy as well as anyone in the industry.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 15, 2010
Behind this analysis is a spreadsheet model, complete with detailed metrics for a set of customer behaviors that show just how valuable the new product will be. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off.
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