Cost of Sales (also called Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), Direct Costs, and Unit Costs): the raw materials and assembly costs, the cost of finished goods that are then resold, the direct cost of delivering the service. Profits (also called Income): Sales less cost of sales less expenses. MORE >>

“How much does a website cost?” But how much will it cost you? . Asking this is like asking an architect how much a house would cost, or a surgeon how much an operation would cost. we can get an idea of the costs involved. . Folyo. Browse designers. Submit a job offer. Apply as a designer. Tweet. MORE >>

Nagios, for example, has to spin up processes to execute checks in a very spiky manner, and to add to this there are sometimes hundreds of them at once, so the cost of switching between doing tasks in all those processes (even if the time of each individual one on it’s own is tiny) is huge (this is known as context switching). Scribe. MORE >>

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 22, 2008 Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to measure customer satisfaction Ive mentioned Net Promoter Score (NPS) in a few previous posts, but havent had a chance to describe it in detail yet. The whole episode cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue. Yikes. for H. MORE >>

in Airware , a startup that makes operating systems for flying robots, popularly known as drones. One application is precision farming, which aims to decrease costs, increase yields, and reduce the environmental impact of farming. Airware makes operating systems for low-cost, non-military drones. startups MORE >>