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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less). In that article I linked to I outline the difference between gross margin & net margin. In these kinds of businesses I’m on the record as advising “ Ring the Freakin Cash Register.” We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok. Valuation.

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Tech Giants’ Partnership To Explore Ethics, Societal Impacts of AI

Xconomy

Each company is investing untold billions of dollars in developing AI technologies, betting on a future defined by computer systems that can perceive, reason, advise, and decide. General interest, awareness, and discussion about AI has waxed and waned since the field was founded in 1956,” they write ( PDF ). “We

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

InfoChachkie

free weekly Infochachkie articles! If you are charged for every nanosecond you spend with your lawyer, consider finding one who is willing to “invest” more aggressively in your success. Your lawyer is a trusted advisor, but in the end, you run your business, your lawyer does not. Substance Over Form.

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Why I F **g Hate Unicorns and the Culture They Breed

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On average they have taken 9-11 years to reach this status and most of our investments have never gotten there. Do you know how many people I meet these days who are “packaging up money in SPVs (special purpose vehicles),” or raising syndicates or doing secondaries or advising high-net-worth individuals how to get into unicorns?