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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. The first company represents a normal software company that sells its products directly (either via sales staff or directly off of the internet).

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Mile-High disruption: Why Denver should be on your tech radar next year

The Next Web

Stuart Wall, CEO of Signpost , a local advertising platform funded by Spark Capital and Google Ventures. metropolitan area, including SendGrid , Ping Identity , Rally Software (which went public on NASDAQ this year; RALY ), Sympoz , Datalogix , Newsgator , TrackVia , Convercent , Printfection , rentbits , and hundreds more.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

I wanted to work in the pure, intellectual world of software, not deal with customers mundane problems. Some believe only businesspeople can do this-- that hackers can implement software, but not design it. But it turned outthey didnt like us, because our software was easy to use and we hostedthe site. Thats nonsense.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Update: Part 2: Finding Your Co-Founders CrunchBase Information Seth Sternberg meebo Information provided by CrunchBase Tweet Next Post Previous Post Advertisement Now Commented Facebook Goodbye, MacBook Pro. Options and future value are great ‘add ons’ but not for a welfare check salary until ‘this great idea makes it.’

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

They’re cutting salaries and making the last tens of thousands — or if they’re lucky a hundred thousand — last. Meanwhile, there’s been a surge in follow-on seed deals. If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. Entrepreneurs are survivors by nature.