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5 Keys To A Viable Spending Rate And Cash Management

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent or looking for the next refueling from investors. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. The best entrepreneurs manage cash flow ruthlessly and never delegate decisions about spending money.

Burn Rate 258
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5 Ways To Conserve Investor Cash And Ensure Survival

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. The best entrepreneurs manage cash flow ruthlessly and never delegate decisions about spending money.

Burn Rate 310
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5 Keys To Minimizing The Burn Rate For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. The best entrepreneurs manage cash flow ruthlessly and never delegate decisions about spending money.

Burn Rate 223
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Investors Measure Entrepreneurs By Cashflow Mileage

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. Your goal is that magical break even point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. The best entrepreneurs manage cashflow ruthlessly and never delegate decisions about spending money.

Burn Rate 262
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5 Steps To Maximizing Your Startup Cash Flow Runway

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. The best entrepreneurs manage cash flow ruthlessly and never delegate decisions about spending money.

Burn Rate 120
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Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Harvard Business.

Startup Lessons Learned

And when companies pursue sustaining innovations — like a product line extension or a new technology designed to serve an existing customer segment — this procedure makes complete sense. Safely because it is clear that the manager in question didnt do his homework. Read the rest here. Read the rest here.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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