Benchmarks for Startup Spend and Cash Burn

Re:Benchmarks for Startup Spend and Cash Burn by calcsam on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @06:06PM (#18659843)

Burn is the numerator, $ raised or cash-in-the-bank is the denominator.

Would be really good to get a 2x2 grid of monthly burn x money raised for Series A companies. Or if that's too hard, a "Months the Series A will last at at current burn rate" bar chart.

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Re:Benchmarks for Startup Spend and Cash Burn by hdubugras on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @06:13PM (#18659881)

We can definitely add a runway / months to exhaustion to our next analysis.

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Re:Benchmarks for Startup Spend and Cash Burn by calcsam on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @04:31AM (#18662528)

That would be good. Runway is one metric -- the one I'm most interested is "how long are you _planning_ the A to last for?"

If you raise eg $10M and you ramp burn to $400k monthly, the answer is 24 months. Regardless of where you are in those 24 months.

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Re:Benchmarks for Startup Spend and Cash Burn by hdubugras on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @12:49PM (#18665980)

Sure, it might be interesting to compare rounds this way, on how long each round is planned to last.

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