Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2014

Yet even a non-profit has to make a profit on everything it sells, in order to cover operating expenses (salaries, offices, equipment, research, travel, etc.), Even then, the business and leadership efforts to solicit and manage donations cost real money, and may be more difficult than the marketing and sales jobs of most startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Yet even a non-profit has to make a profit on everything it sells, in order to cover operating expenses (salaries, offices, equipment, research, travel, etc.), Even then, the business and leadership efforts to solicit and manage donations cost real money, and may be more difficult than the marketing and sales jobs of most startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Yet even a non-profit has to make a profit on everything it sells, in order to cover operating expenses (salaries, offices, equipment, research, travel, etc.), Even then, the business and leadership efforts to solicit and manage donations cost real money, and may be more difficult than the marketing and sales jobs of most startups.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The Afro-Tech operates on a basis of permissionless innovation — we do not need pre-approval to be black and innovative in tech and as for me, I been doing advanced and epic Internet tech stuff since 1994 so I’m not exactly someone that is easily impressed by an “ex-Google engineer” like the rest of yall, just saying.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 2, 2020

Many people volunteer to build schools or teach English in Africa or Central America. If you’re pursuing a job in tech, San Francisco or Seattle may be your dream, but the cost of living is high. For example, if your employer approves you to work remotely for one month biannually, you could travel overseas to volunteer.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 21, 2020

On January 29th, the Gates Foundation pledged $10 million “to help frontline responders in China and Africa accelerate their efforts to contain the global spread.”. Even as reports of a new viral outbreak in China started popping up during the first weeks of 2020, most people were slow to pay sufficient attention to the developing threat.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

I lived there for 9 years before my father got offered a great opportunity and we moved to South Africa for a three year contract. Design fees are at a 1993 level, despite salary increases and operation costs. So I worked closely with the CD, and came up with a great new design and campaign, that took off really well.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

I lived there for 9 years before my father got offered a great opportunity and we moved to South Africa for a three year contract. Design fees are at a 1993 level, despite salary increases and operation costs. So I worked closely with the CD, and came up with a great new design and campaign, that took off really well.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2015

The startup culture is rampant today, especially in emerging national economies like Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. These services are more cost-effective than regular telecom services and do not require implementation of physical infrastructure. Cloud telephony services fall into this category. What is cloud telephony?

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Opinion: Noonan: The Romney Campaign Needs a New CEO. Low Cost Franchises.

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Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 8, 2013

From an HR standpoint, GiftZip.com cuts down the costs associated with buying plastic cards, eliminates the need to hold a burdensome inventory, and allows instantaneous incentivizing via email. Three-month memberships cost $35.99 Give your client a lottery ticket (it only costs you a buck) and they just may be the lucky winner.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

From an HR standpoint, GiftZip.com cuts down the costs associated with buying plastic cards, eliminates the need to hold a burdensome inventory, and allows instantaneous incentivizing via email. Three-month memberships cost $35.99 Give your client a lottery ticket (it only costs you a buck) and they just may be the lucky winner.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

From an HR standpoint, GiftZip.com cuts down the costs associated with buying plastic cards, eliminates the need to hold a burdensome inventory, and allows instantaneous incentivizing via email. Three-month memberships cost $35.99 Give your client a lottery ticket (it only costs you a buck) and they just may be the lucky winner.

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

. “The affirmation reflects the resumption of the downward trend in public deficits and debt, the robust outlook for Israeli growth, and a strengthening in the sovereign’s external balance sheet,&# said Purvi Harlalka, director at Fitch’s Middle East and Africa Sovereign Ratings Group.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Short story #2: Predictive Modeling, Quantifying Cost of Inaction. I can find the biggest pools of customers who share a behavior and go back and optimize my campaign strategy, my content strategy and indeed my overall digital strategy. Short story #2: Predictive Modeling, Quantifying Cost of Inaction. Just move the blue dot.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

The "drip drip drip" of data he was seeing from countries that were hit first told him what was coming, and he made it his mission to start a campaign for masks -- Masks4All. So I was always doing linear programming and operations research stuff, and regression models and whatever to try to solve corporate strategy problems.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

At the time, he was advising the campaign while also serving as Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Revolution, a DC-based VC firm created to fund startups led by diverse founders all over the country. We ultimately put 10,000 people on the ground in West Africa to fight the disease there. And then we had a U.S.

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