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How to model "cash runway" for your startup.

By On August 7, 2010 · In Business Modeling, Startup

Even before getting any funding, VCs always ask “how long will this money you are raising last?”  After funding, the question is still the same but phrased as “So, when is our cash out date?”  They are absolutely right to make this ”running out of [...]

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Some sense to startup frugality

By On August 1, 2010 · In regular

I am not a frugal individual.  I like to live well, spend money, buy expensive toys, and fly first class.  My money, my choice.  I always believed in what I once expressed to my friend Glenn Kelman in his early days at my first [...]

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VCs, startups, and NDAs

By On June 28, 2010 · In regular, VC

It happens.  Every now and then I see a company that is about to ask a VC for funding that is completely clueless when it comes to NDA etiquette.

The worst offenders are entrepreneurs who insist on having a potential investor sign some non-disclosure paperwork before even showing [...]

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