Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
Gross Burn vs. Net Burn. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it Net burn is the amount of money you are losing per month. I often see companies burning $100,000 per month (net) looking to raise $6-8 million.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 30, 2021
In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. He later changed the name to Facebook. But within five years it became an overnight success, and now has nearly 3 billion users worldwide.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 12, 2019
In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. He later changed the name to Facebook. But within five years it became an overnight success, and now has nearly 2 billion users worldwide.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
30% of all real income growth in 2005–2015 was from Latinos (U.S. Latinos drove 69% of total net increasing in U.S. Latino purchasing power will reach $1.7 trillion in 2020 (U.S. Census), surpassing total expenditure of even the much sought after Millennial population. Advertisers, wake the f**k up. home ownership in 2015 (NAHREP).
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 14, 2015
” It goes like this: What is your net burn rate? We have an entire generation of startup founders who don’t have muscle memory from getting their burn rates back into shape from 2008/09 or 2001-2005. And the truth is that I think this is just a harbinger of what we will see in the private markets very, very soon.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 6, 2013
In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. He later changed the name to Facebook. But within five years it became an overnight success, and now has about 400 million users worldwide.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 31, 2016
In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. He later changed the name to Facebook. But within five years it became an overnight success, and now has nearly 2 billion users worldwide.
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