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Investors Measure Entrepreneurs By Cashflow Mileage

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/26/2014.

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Microsoft’s Purchase Of Minecraft Maker Mojang Shows Comitment To Building Cross-Platform Appeal

YoungUpstarts

billion acquisition of Sweden-based software company Mojang, the developer behind the popular building game ““Minecraft”, which has sold over 100 million copies since its release in 2009, illustrates the degree to which Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s long-term vision for Microsoft is taking root at that company. Microsoft’s $2.5

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Anodot (2014) – a real-time analytics and automated anomaly detection system that discovers outliers in vast amounts of data. Fraugster (2014) – Technically based in Berlin, the company uses AI to predict malicious attacks before they happen. Logz.io (2014) – Logz.io Raised $8M in series B in September 2016.

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‘Do-It-Yourself’ Startups Have Never Been Easier

Startup Professionals Musings

Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via credit card), including this Top Ten list for 2014. The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers, or a mobile smartphone app. Personalize a simple web site.

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Twitter Link Roundup #208 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Four Important Small Business Insights: Marketing in 2014 – crowdspring.co/1d0lOBF. Empower Your Small Business: 2014 marketing insights, biz plans, resolutions, content marketing – crowdspring.co/1fyj2Z1. Four Important Small Business Insights: Marketing in 2014 – crowdspring.co/1d0lOBF. ” crowdspring.co/L76cU1.

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Micro-Multinationals, And How They Will Define Our Era

YoungUpstarts

Back in early 2003, a Dane named Janus Friis and a Swede named Niklas Zennström had an idea for a software application, and founded a business with the help of three Estonian software developers. 5] FedEx GCR 2014. [6] et al, China’s Digital Transformation , McKinsey Global Institute, 2014. [13] 3] Varian, H.,

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6 Customer Success Secrets

Guy Nirpaz

If you are familiar with the agile software development manifesto will see a similar presentation style (visuals are updated to 2014 though). In the 2nd annual customer success summit last month in San Francisco, I’ve introduced the Customer Success Manifesto.