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5 Keys To A Viable Spending Rate And Cash Management

Startup Professionals Musings

As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cash flow personally every day. Overall, managing cash flow and burn rate is more critical to your business success than having the right idea and the right product.

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5 Ways To Conserve Investor Cash And Ensure Survival

Startup Professionals Musings

As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cash flow personally every day. Overall, managing cash flow and burn rate is more critical to your business success than having the right idea and the right product.

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5 Keys To Minimizing The Burn Rate For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cash flow personally every day. Overall, managing cash flow and burn rate is more critical to your business success than having the right idea and the right product.

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5 Steps To Maximizing Your Startup Cash Flow Runway

Startup Professionals Musings

As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cash flow personally every day. Overall, managing cash flow and burn rate is more critical to your business success than having the right idea and the right product.

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8 Key Rules for Starting a Business on a Shoestring

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are some of the key new rules I have learned by starting my own company, investing as an angel in other startups and mentoring many more new entrepreneurs over the last few years: Do incorporate a company, but keep it simple. Of course, not all new startup ideas can be developed this way, so pick an idea that fits.

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Investors Measure Entrepreneurs By Cashflow Mileage

Startup Professionals Musings

As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cashflow personally every day. Overall, managing cashflow and burn rate is more critical to your business success than having the right idea and the right product.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

In addition, I do a few consulting projects on the side, in the areas of product strategy, search engine optimization, and intellectual property. This is not so much because others are going to try to steal the idea, however, there is simply no upside in broadcasting your strategy to any would-be competitors.

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