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A heartbreaking story about time and money.

Berkonomics

How about young or pre-revenue companies? Although young companies rarely measure profitability this repeatedly, more mature companies usually can bring from five to ten percent of revenues to the bottom line in the form of net profit. We often accept that development schedules for young companies are almost always too optimistic.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. from catching up with Silicon Valley and New York as a stronger startup region. Drupal works at all levels of software development. Also lot’s of fake, wanna be CTOs here. (So

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Wasted time is money lost.

Berkonomics

Although young companies rarely measure profitability this repeatedly, more mature companies usually can bring from five to ten percent of revenues to the bottom line in the form of net profit. We often accept that development schedules for young companies are almost always too optimistic.

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Wasted time is money lost. (And another story of lost opportunity.)

Berkonomics

Although young companies rarely measure profitability this repeatedly, more mature companies usually can bring from five to ten percent of revenues to the bottom line in the form of net profit. We often accept that development schedules for young companies are almost always too optimistic. Email readers continue here.]

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My Criteria for Investing in Startups

Diego Basch

Whether I like it or not I’m an angel investor , even though I prefer a different label. I avoid the entertainment industry, and anything where the revenue stream is based on advertising. I’ve been around Silicon Valley for a while so I’m connected to many engineers and investors whom I deeply respect.

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

If you’ve already soft launched, have a product available, are telling the world about your awesome company but don’t have revenue/user growth, you’re probably in the red zone. Pre-launch funding is pretty common in Silicon Valley, but that’s a unique case. In between those times it’s pretty tough. They’re betting on you.

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Is #NewYork the Next Startup Land of Oz?

Scalable Startup

There is a highly under-known fact in the software engineering world – many of the best developers and architects are not in Silicon Valley, but in the New York metro area. Maybe Zuckerberg should’ve put Facebook there instead of Silicon Valley. tomnora.