2026-01-20 05:30:50

Burning through capital too fast? Here's a counterintuitive hack some founders swear by: minimize your burn rate until you hit profitability. The math is simple—lower expenses mean your runway stretches longer, buying you more time to prove the business model works. It's not glamorous, but it's effective.

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RektButSmiling

· 11h ago

NGL, saving money sounds simple, but actually doing it is really difficult. Many entrepreneurs fail at the stage of "waiting for profit"...

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LiquidationAlert

· 01-20 06:01

That's right, but the real challenge is execution... Most founders simply can't control their own hands.

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GasFeeVictim

· 01-20 06:00

ngl That's just the old-fashioned rhetoric of traditional VCs, ignoring the early market window... Sometimes you have to spend money to burn, if you can't make an impact, how can you compete

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