Entrepreneurship: What's the Level of Burn?

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Reed Martin: I think all entrepreneurs go through their versions of trying to respond to current conditions, good or bad. What's the speed that you should be pushing at? What's the level of burn? He says in a capital constraint market, you should be focused on endurance and unnavigating what is perhaps a long uncertainty about how easy is to get capital. And so it's not a, oh my God, now the good times are over, rest in peace. It's kind of like, we don't know when,. We don't know if it's this year, next year, year after and so forth. Growth will continue, but there is a kind of contraction and

How do you keep innovating while also making sure your core business stays on point? How do you turn your employees into impassioned storytellers? And how do you get even the most risk-averse stakeholders to get on board with your trailblazing new approach? Reid Hoffman and Bob Safian answer these questions and more, all posed live by entrepreneurs across many industries and stages of scale. Plus Reid reminds us the importance of staying grounded in our humanity amid the spate of big tech layoffs in our Need to Know segment.

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