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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

If you had huge customer growth but just didn’t focus on revenue that’s a different story. Gross Profit (also called Gross Margin or sometimes “Net Revenue”). And assuming they both had the same net profit margins (profit / revenue) then the former company would be much better off at the end of the year.

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Should Startups Care About Profitability?

Both Sides of the Table

I want to understand how many units the company is selling, whether this is increasing over time and how well they’re doing at retaining the customers that they do acquire. Do 20% of the customers make 80% of the revenue or do the top 3 customers represent 80% of the revenue. They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5