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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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We want money to make some acquisitions (investors would prefer to fund M&A if they know specific deals – not to encourage bad behavior. Many software companies have > 80% gross margins which is why they are more valuable than say traditional retailers or consumer product companies.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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