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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. Markets develop for a complex set of factors that are often beyond all of our control.

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Startup Runway Length Depends on Your Burn Rate

Startup Professionals Musings

That refueling is when you will need more investment, or when you will break even and begin that steep profitable growth curve. As a rule of thumb, investors expect each investment round you get to last at least a year to 18 months. As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day.

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High Burn Rates Result in Short Startup Runways

Startup Professionals Musings

That refueling is when you will need more investment, or when you will break even and begin that steep profitable growth curve. As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Once you build it, they will now ask you about the key metrics that they need proven in order to see if you really are a good investment. The second bullet, getting feedback from customers is most often not valid either. Review the code being built. To prove/disprove a hypothesis. Plan for past the initial MVP.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. in Computer Science.

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Don’t Get Burned By Your Startup Burn Rate

Startup Professionals Musings

That refueling is when you will need more investment, or when you will break even and begin to make a profit. As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. Great strategy.

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