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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

As further market proof of the power of Drupal in the enterprise, Acquia has received about $100 million in funding in the past 3 months, which puts its valuation at over $1 billion. Plus, there are tons of expenses like servers, bandwidth, office space, travel and the time of many professionals. Because they are open source.

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How SaaS + Mobile has changed our world.

Scalable Startup

Spell-guesser, auto-fill, travel, accounting, calculating company valuations, facebook, pinterest, dropbox, codecademy, me writing this blog are all managed by a SaaS platform. The software just doesn’t leave it’s cloud hosts anymore. This saves energy, mistakes, cost, time, client computer memory and bandwidth.

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How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

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Flips, on the other hand, thrive on trends: what better time for an entrepreneur to create a startup than when valuations are up, investments are quick, exits are plenty and deal flow is increase? You have a limited fund, bandwidth for deals you can work on, and a portfolio of existing code and skills. 1: Find a Simple Idea.

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Understanding the Risks of VC Signaling

Both Sides of the Table

Third, he notes that even if they do invest they’re likely to do so at a lower price because you can’t truly get an independent valuation. Bandwidth and hosting charges were expensive. .&# This is true and does happen. I’m sure this happens, too.