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5 Startup Cost Realities Most Founders Underestimate

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Flickr by Phil Gyford Starting a new venture still costs real money, even though the entry price has come down dramatically in last few decades. For example, I come from a software background, and back in the early PC days, it could easily cost half a million dollars for a team of professionals to produce a commercial product.

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Fundrise CTO: New SQL Tools Lead to ‘Wonderfully Seamless Solutions’

The Startup Magazine

For Kenny Shin , the chief technology officer of direct-to-consumer alternative asset management company Fundrise, some of the most exciting technological advancements in recent years have been in structured query language tools. SQL’s strength lies in its ability to handle complex queries over large datasets.

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11 tips for reducing costs in small business

NZ Entrepreneur

With inflation reaching a 30-year high, small businesses across the country will be looking for ways to reduce costs amid cost of living and rising price pressures. With the increasing cost of living, 7-in-10 local SMEs have also noticed changes in consumer behaviour. 2) UNCOVER HIDDEN COSTS. 7) SEEK OUT AN EXPERT.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Personal Finance Cross-account visibility and management – Today’s AI products can analyze and move money between accounts – as agents improve, they will make trades across accounts. AI – tax planning or wealth management augmented and in some cases replaced with AI. Complex transactions move from services ?

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Why Fleet Management is Important for Your Business

The Startup Magazine

This has seen a sharp increase in the reliance on fleet management systems to efficiently manage their fleet and get critical data that will help them make informed decisions. Why should you invest in a modern fleet management software for your business? Cost Reduction. Better Driver Management. Route Planning.

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People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip

Both Sides of the Table

As your organization grows and you hire senior staff where you are no longer managing every employee directly the issue of how to manage people that are not your “direct&# reports arises. So I would go to lunch with our senior architect and ask 50 questions about the differences between Postgres , MySQL and Oracle databases.

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Best Online HR Management Tools Every Company Needs

YoungUpstarts

Although it is not possible for technology to take over completely the human resource management , the right software speeds and eases up HR management. Therefore HR software can be grouped on the aspect of HR functions they manage. Human capital management HR software. Human capital management HR software.