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5 Keys To A Viable Spending Rate And Cash Management

Startup Professionals Musings

Count on six months from beginning the funding process until a new check is cashed. Always add 20 percent to your best estimate of funding requirements when approaching investors. As a rule of thumb, your monthly burn rate should be less than 10 percent of your last funding raise or starting cash in the bank. Martin Zwilling

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5 Ways To Conserve Investor Cash And Ensure Survival

Startup Professionals Musings

Count on six months from beginning the funding process until a new check is cashed. Always add 20 percent to your best estimate of funding requirements when approaching investors. As a rule of thumb, your monthly burn rate should be less than 10 percent of your last funding raise or starting cash in the bank. Martin Zwilling.

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The Planned Iteration Startup Launch Minimizes Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). Show some traction before funding. With a minimum viable product, your startup remains much more agile.

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Every Startup Should Assume Pivots Will Be Required

Startup Professionals Musings

I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). Show some traction before funding. With a minimum viable product, your startup remains much more agile.

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5 Keys To Minimizing The Burn Rate For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Count on six months from beginning the funding process until a new check is cashed. Always add 20 percent to your best estimate of funding requirements when approaching investors. As a rule of thumb, your monthly burn rate should be less than 10 percent of your last funding raise or starting cash in the bank. Martin Zwilling.

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5 Steps To Maximizing Your Startup Cash Flow Runway

Startup Professionals Musings

Count on six months from beginning the funding process until a new check is cashed. Always add 20 percent to your best estimate of funding requirements when approaching investors. As a rule of thumb, your monthly burn rate should be less than 10 percent of your last funding raise or starting cash in the bank. Martin Zwilling.

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Smart Entrepreneurs Plan Multiple Rollout Iterations

Startup Professionals Musings

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Get traction before funding. It will narrow your development focus, and adjust your strategy for you.