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Startup Runway Length Depends on Your Burn Rate

Startup Professionals Musings

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes. Pay people with equity or future revenue. The components are simple - expenses and income. Great strategy.

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High Burn Rates Result in Short Startup Runways

Startup Professionals Musings

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes. Pay people with equity or future revenue. Investors assume it will only go up with more funding. Great strategy.

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Don’t Get Burned By Your Startup Burn Rate

Startup Professionals Musings

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes. Pay people with equity or future revenue. Investors assume it will only go up with more funding. Great strategy.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites. Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately.