2005 Cost Customer Software Review 
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 30, 2016
In a flash of brilliance, we took our dial-up filter technology and built a software product that would run on any computer regardless of its Internet connection type. We had no experience in running an Internet filtering software business, but this didn’t concern us. The best part was that it was a blind review.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 9, 2013
I still drive the same car I bought for cash in 2005. Work on budgets, submit RFPs, answer customers support calls, work the bug-tracking software, and trying to meet the next sprint release schedule. Your 2am coding session is more important than their 2am cocktails on the redeye back from Japan where they have no customers.
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YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 23, 2017
To dig deeper, let’s first review the influence of technology on the core components. An early example occurred in 2010 when UBS Analyst Neil Currie accessed satellite imagery to monitor activity in Walmart parking lots, running the data thru a mathematical regression to translate it into customer activity for better earnings forecasts.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. So if your costs are $500,000 per month and you have $350,000 per month in revenue then your net burn (500-350) is equal to $150,000.
The Startup Magazine
OCTOBER 12, 2017
When you manage your data on premise, it is most likely that you’ll invest thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars into hardware and software. Do you want to reduce your office space costs? If you are a startup, it is relatively simple to employ the wealth of cloud services and software available. Cloud Solutions.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 25, 2016
It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 14, 2011
Robert has been working in software since 2005. You can’t sell anything without significant traffic, especially since 80% of it is crap even with a good campaign, and it is preferable that some of that traffic is not costing you dollars per click. On top of that, the cost has escalated tremendously over time.
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