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5 Keys To A Viable Spending Rate And Cash Management

Startup Professionals Musings

Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization.

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

Startup Professionals Musings

Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization.

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

Startup Professionals Musings

Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization.

Burn Rate 223
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Investors Measure Entrepreneurs By Cashflow Mileage

Startup Professionals Musings

Your goal is that magical break even point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization.

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

Startup Professionals Musings

Your goal is that magical breakeven point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization.

Burn Rate 120
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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

A few of the many quotations that struck me: “Most startups fail due not to the failure of product development but due to the lack of customers”. Learning and discovering who a company’s initial customers will be and what market they are in, requires a process separate and distinct from product development”.

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Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Harvard Business.

Startup Lessons Learned

For a little while, the team can resort to the last defense of entrepreneurs in trouble: the promised hockey-stick. One thing that is often overlooked about the hockey-stick growth shape: its most distinctive characteristic is the long, flat part. Usually, they are delivering only a fraction of the revenue they promised.