Ensure your budget prepares you for the trip ahead. High-growth, early stage companies excel at identifying a gap in the market and creating products and services to fill that gap. They’re often very good at ramping staff, engineering workarounds … Read More
ICOs: A promising innovation, but pitfalls abound. Photo courtesy of Christopher Michel. Partly because of Burkland’s roots in Silicon Valley and partly because we tend to focus on newer, venture-backed companies, many of the questions we’re asked by founders and … Read More
Proper financial modeling is critical, but not for the faint of heart. Work with enough early stage companies, and you’ll inevitably hear reference to a financial model. Depending on the company in question, the model will be either a mysterious … Read More
There will be storms ahead. Make sure you learn resiliency from the ones that came beforehand. Photo courtesy of Christopher Michel. For millions of people in the U.S. and the Caribbean, the summer of 2017 is synonymous with tremendous suffering … Read More