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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

Internet scale. The first company represents a normal software company that sells its products directly (either via sales staff or directly off of the internet). They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 In many Internet startups 80% of the operating costs will be people. So which company is better run?

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How to Start a Startup

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They all use the same simple-minded model.They seem to have approached the problem by thinking about how todo database matches instead of how dating works in the real world.An Andyet theres a lot of money at stake. Some believe only businesspeople can do this-- that hackers can implement software, but not design it.

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Get Off My Lawn! Crazy Kids and Their Sex, Drugs and Startup Advice!

This is going to be BIG.

A founder will raise one party round worth of seed money and they''ll go teach a class on how to raise venture capital. Your advice matches the experience of your accomplishments. Our designer is a better designer. I was at that Internet Week when Katia and Hayley were networking pre-raise. Growth hacking?

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