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Should Startups Care About Profitability?

Both Sides of the Table

They don’t want high burn rates but they will never fund slow growth. Company 2 might represent an “ad mediation company” where the company gets paid by ad networks for running ads on publisher websites and the company in turn must pay the publisher 85% of the revenue it collects. They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5

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Figuring Out FourSquare

Seeing Both Sides

The students concluded that the context around a venture matters tremendously - that smart phones, the explosion of apps and social networking all were important enablers that allowed foursquare to succeed at this particular moment in time. Modest burn : the company only raised $1.35 Monetization. Advertising isn't cool.").

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