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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

Let’s set up a framework. 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. In that article I linked to I outline the difference between gross margin & net margin.

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This freshly funded startup spun out of a student-run Stanford investment club

TechCrunch

Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneurship.

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Extra Crunch roundup: 3 lies VCs tell, betting big on Kubernetes, NYC’s enterprise boom

TechCrunch

Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Singh Cassidy, founder of premium talent marketplace theBoardlist, will discuss making the leap into entrepreneurship after leaving Google, her time as CEO-in-Residence at venture capital firm Accel Partners and the framework she’s developed for taking career risks.

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A 7-step method for running effective pitch meetings

TechCrunch

He believes that when startup founders know how to raise money, they can find the freedom to approach investors with confidence and raise the capital they need to grow their company. Tal developed his methodologies in the course of leading five startups over more than 20 years. How to break into Silicon Valley as an outsider.

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Why Half of all Startups Fail and the Surprising Secret to Success

Smart Hustle Magazine

In the book, I brought in 50 business leaders to advise you on how to grow your business from your basic idea through to your eventual exit and summarized it into a step-by-step framework. The focus is mostly around marketing, because this is where so many startups fail. It sets a startup off on the right (or wrong) path.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Why your title matters, part-time CFOs, Sequoia’s new model

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.” That might work inside mature companies, but early-stage founders who are presenting themselves to investors must be more specific. In an interview with Natasha Mascarenhas, B2B stealth startup founder Akshaya Dinesh recounted the time her team was rejected by an accelerator because they hadn’t yet picked a CEO.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: YC Demo Day faves, thrift shop VCs, cybersecurity product challenges

TechCrunch

The ongoing AI boom is a contributing factor: 54 of the 282 companies in this cohort “are specifically building generative AI startups,” reported Natasha Mascarenhas. As a result, “the average Black founder raises less than around $1,000 from family and friends,” reports Dominic-Madori Davis.