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Should Startups Care About Profitability?

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Let’s consider the following two competing software companies, both of which have 66% gross margins and they decide to run their company exactly the same in year one. They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 If there was strong market demand for their product then this investment might pay off handsomely.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. Living expense money 2. Meebo doesn’t even work right on Chrome or Opera.