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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. Rigid union contracts constrain salaries, work schedules and promotions.

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Cracking The Code: Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts.

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Thursday, November 13, 2008. Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts for SaaS companies planning their 2009 budget. With this decline, the average EV/08 rev. multiple fell down to ~2.2x

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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Starting an Online Casino

The Startup Magazine

Before starting an online casino take time to study the online software providers that exist. Determined to give their customers the best software solutions, they have support structures that give the best experience to entrepreneurs. The first move involves identifying a software provider. Setup a white label!

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Scaling Sales: From Craft to Machine

Seeing Both Sides

80-90% software products vs. 40-50% advertising products) and company maturity (e.g., For example if you have a 90% gross margin SaaS software product and assign a $1.1M It is not uncommon for the SDRs to be right out of college or, at most, have only 2-4 years of experience and be earning base salaries as low as $30-40K.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

At a salaried job making $80k plus benefits your time is worth around $55/hour. And thus it is with the majority of open source software: Open source software is free if your time is worth nothing. Even fewer can be installed in five minutes or less, even by an experienced software developer. But I don’t buy it.

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How To Buy Back Your Time And Reclaim Your Freedom

Duct Tape Marketing

Dan Martell joins me in this episode as he shares how to design the freedom to engage in high-value work for energy and fulfillment. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And income for me is your salary profit and then also discretionary expenses. Key Takeaway: Want to get more out of your free time?

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