Thoughts on Startups, VC, Germany, and Technology. Fund the Answer, not the Question. Some of the most common founder questions revolve around the timing and size of funding rounds. These two components are interconnected. Fund the answer, not the question. This way of thinking has the added bonu.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Swurl - Founders doing too many things. Swurl was a life streaming service with a stunning user interface. One unique feature was the timeline view that organized all your content from many different services into one neat calendar perspective. Two guys doing swurl as a part time job. We built Swurl as two guys doing something we love in our spare time.

Ldquo;Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. The startup death clock tells you when your startup will run out of money. Try it yourself by entering your own numbers. For the idea, and Keith Wood. For the cool countdown clock. Also discussed on Hacker News.

This curve is often J-Shaped because a company has costs associated with acquiring and onboarding a new customer that are offset over time by incremental revenue. Some people refer to this as an S-Curve. Because, in most cases, incremental revenue stops being generated and the curve takes the shape of an S instead of a J.