A startup burning $30k a month with no revenue has nine months left and that is the default alive calculation

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Running out of cash mid-fundraise kills more startups than bad products do An MVP that customers pay for beats a pilot with a design partner who never buys Roughly one in five startups is gone within a year and half are gone by year five Product-market fit shows up as a retention curve not a feeling and the cohort chart says when to stop pivoting Second-time founders and what they stop doing A startup's first sales hire usually fails because the founder never wrote down how the deal got closed Pivoting twice burns the early adopters who trusted the first product and they do not come back Most startup ideas die in customer discovery because founders interview friends who love the idea A startup claims a fashionable city where it has no office at all A seed round buys 18 months and the Series A bar now sits near $2 million in recurring revenue