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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. And there’s this other thing called “gross margin,” which shows the quality of your revenue. How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. For both companies, the initial traction enabled raising seed money to get them to a traditional VC investment.) Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B) How to have good startup? [.]

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

It’s just getting easier to raise early rounds and harder to raise later rounds,” says Y Combinator’s Paul Graham over email, hewing to the latter view that this has merely become startup life in the Valley. “That’s independent of how much money VCs have or how many companies funded. November 29, 2012.