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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

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. But software companies often take longer to scale top-line revenue than retailers so it takes a while to cover your nut.

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Data Centers – On-Premise, Cloud, or Hybrid – What’s Best for Your Company

The Startup Magazine

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. If you are a startup, it is relatively simple to employ the wealth of cloud services and software available. Accounting software such as QuickBooks. On Premise Data Center.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. The world’s best brains are on sale.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Tech support is sales. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out.

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When Should You Allow Exclusivity in Deals?

Both Sides of the Table

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006. Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I urge you to oppose HB 1192, the so-called “Software” Tax. CDs) – shouldn’t change whether the software should be taxed.

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How cold calling (properly) works better than AdWords

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Robert has been working in software since 2005. I’m Robert Graham and I’m an internet entrepreneur working on software for deer management. He was on full sales alert. I didn’t close 100% to sales, but those relationships have yielded a lot more than a simple close. (Powered by LaunchBit ).

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