Startup Survival Matrix

Do you have a startup? Are you reaching for profitability? Do you want to live? Then check out VC Fred Wilson’s survival matrix of burn rate (how much you’re spending) versus runway (how long your cash will last).

Low burn rate and long runway put you in the upper right quadrant — you’ll probably make it to profitability. Short runway but low burn rate put you in the upper left quadrant — you’re small enough for investors to keep funding you. Click here to continue reading “Startup Survival Matrix”…

Seven Useful LinkedIn Features

I have a hard time explaining LinkedIn to most Filipinos. Too many of them still think of resumes not as living social documents, but as dead tree bits shoved into pigeonholes.

The best I can tell them is “Friendster with resumes”. Since most Filipinos still don’t get the connection between social networks and serious business, even that analogy doesn’t work very often. Click here to continue reading “Seven Useful LinkedIn Features”…