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10 Reasons You Don’t Qualify for an SBA Disaster Loan

Up and Running

Maintaining your business through the coronavirus crisis has likely led you to cut costs, revise your sales projections, and potentially seek out a loan to help you stay afloat. Second, if a requested loan is below a certain amount, depending on the size of the lender, the cost to service that loan is too high to make it worth it for them.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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Calculating Risk

Reid Hoffman

A risky, high-impact decision might warrant more consideration. Using the decision window, you can then evaluate these questions on cost-benefit analysis, a return on investment per question. There is a hidden cost to inconsistency. In uncertainty, or by default, opt for the shorter decision window.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, The x-axis depicts technical complexity, risk, and cost which are all related. decide on success metrics, measure, and then decide if additional investment is warranted. Use prototyping to lower technical risks and costs.

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What is Brand Equity in Marketing? (How to Become Memorable)

ConversionXL

Brand equity helps build the relationships between the perceived benefits and perceived costs that people relate to that product. However, even if you’re not familiar with these client brands, that eight other companies have trusted, Buffer gives them enough credibility to warrant consideration. Customer acquisition cost.

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The Software Product Myth

Software By Rob

at 12:41 pm Rob, just a hypothetical question here: what if there were the equivalent to the iPhone app store for server software? Developers for apps on the iPhone are spared much of the friction you mentioned (marketing challenges, securing wide distribution, fulfillment headaches, varied platform and runtime support issues).

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From 160 Hours to 10: A Tale of Agile Business Practices

Software By Rob

At this point we begin looking at the launch of Hosted DotNetInvoice as a market test; to see if we could build enough of a customer base to warrant a major investment in the hosted invoicing market space. Writing code should be viewed as an expense beyond the cost of the time it takes to write it. 6 Sean Tierney on 04.07.10

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