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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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7 Pitching Tips to Help You Crush Your Next Investor Meeting

Tech.Co

.” “[Founders underestimate] how difficult it is to get a deal done, and how few deals get funded out of how many deals that are pitched,” said Thomas Flake , Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of bcause , and who has been on both sides of the table. What startup teams don’t realize is that having competition is good.

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

InfoChachkie

Like most mature markets, the legal profession is highly segmented with respect to the services provided and markets served. Your lawyer is a trusted advisor, but in the end, you run your business, your lawyer does not. You do not want your IP lawyer to learn the prior art associated with your technology on your dime.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

If you remember your history the market crashed the next week. By mid September the entire market was constipated. History repeated itself in September 2008 with that market crash. If anything changed (stock market crash, real estate crash, somebody trying to buy Salesforce.com, whatever) I could end up with goose eggs.