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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million.

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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? This is a company that, according to the article, got term sheets from half of the VCs that expressed interest in the company. Did I mention it only took the founder a month?

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

This article is based on my experiences and the typical mistakes I see every week in startup land. High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. This article focuses on the first two options. This article is an excerpt from an upcoming book about Startup CEOs by the author. Good hunting.

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Let's All Shed Tears For The Crappy Startups That Can't Raise Any More Money

readwrite.com

He has published three novels, written comedy for TV, and published articles for Vanity Fair , Wired , The New York Times Magazine and many others. Dan was the creator of "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs," a satirical blog written in the persona of Fake Steve Jobs.

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Making Sense of Seed Investment Data

Rob Go

There were a number of interesting articles published over the last week in response to Mattermark and CB Insight’s data around early stage financing activity. As a team, we’ve been thinking about what has been going on in the seed market in recent years. So, what does this mean for founders?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

link] Hazem Awad An excellent and very practical article. Ramanean Nice blog post.Well said This is only if you are ready with a product but if you are going to do some research on some subject (say AI) you need own money to sustain longer to pay the Servers. Thanks for the time and energy to write the article. Thanks again.

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Busted or Confirmed? 3 Common Myths About Starting A Business

crowdSPRING Blog

With countless articles and opinions, it can be hard to decipher who’s right. Fortunately, many startup myths revolve around three common topics (business plans, money, and unnatural hustle). Businesses do require some capital, but this doesn’t mean that every startup has to raise millions of dollars in seed money.