Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Understanding this, historically, the government has enacted a number of policies to improve access to public markets and home ownership, such as many changes to the tax code and legislation that famously made 401(k)s opt-out instead of opt-in (lesson: intelligent defaults can change the world). in addition to home ownership.

IPO 36

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

I’ve made a few grammatical and non-substantive updates for clarity. It’s my hope that some of it can be useful to others, specifically other under-represented founders or non-traditional markets. (I You might notice what’s not on that list above: revenue, investors. swing for the fences category-building B2C software capital?—?wasn’t

Silicon Valley 54

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

And, there are potential tax traps as well, especially when Non Qualified options are traded for services. Your investors, the smart ones at least, are certainly making decisions the other way among competing deals. Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served.

Technical Review 48

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 25, 2010

If they had done it for the money they would have stopped long before they became an overnight success five years of non-stop practice later. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. 7 Secure Networking on 10.14.10 3 Brad on 10.11.10 at 12:20 am [.]

Software Review 65

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

CTO Hire 84

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Up and Running

APRIL 13, 2016

Marijuana Business Daily projects revenue generated by dispensaries and retail stores to reach between $6.5 Code 280E, a tricky tax code that can slip up dispensary owners, particularly in budgeting. “If You can compete on price or other things, and I chose other things,” says Mitch. “We and $8 billion by 2019.

San Diego 60

San Diego Colorado California Business Plan 60

Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

The only thing that seemed to be consistent about my growth was that my revenue was relatively flat while my user base kept growing. This turned out to be a good move since it doubled their revenue that month. He has a great stats page that shows everything from monthly revenue to the breakdown of users by plan type.

Software Review 78

Software Review Software Revenue Cofounder 78

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. 24 Comments • Nov 8, 2010 I love this answer.

Developer 42

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

And investors said they intend to invest more in cleantech than software going forward. This is a big reversal, as software has long been the dominant category for venture deals, but it’s unknown whether software has lost favor, or whether it’s just become so pervasive that it doesn’t really hold together as a category anymore.

Venture Capital 62

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. Non of this academic stuff. I think quick, do something, then review what I’ve learned. do something else.

Technical Review 44

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Internet Security. Many partnerships don’t make it past this stage, devolving into a tangled mess about who owns the idea and the code and what the compensation should be. If the idea was reliant on ad revenue for profit, it quickly becomes apparent that there will be no incoming money at all. XML Tutorials. Businesses.

Technical Cofounder 41

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. But in the world following Jonathan Ive, designers are finally getting their due. They are many more examples.

Technical Review 51

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

It represents the queries done on Google by folks who were logged into their Google.com account or using https (secure) search. It helps you understand the "contribution" of the pages that are viewed in converting visits (using conversions for ecommerce websites and goals values for non-ecommerce websites, like this blog, or both).

Analytics 124

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

Cloud 343

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Here is the data for this blog from another tool I really like and use a lot, Compete … It is pretty close to reality, though everything from Dec '13 through mid-year is imprecise. Note to NSA reviewer of this blog post: I'm a harmless digital marketer, totally not worth your attention.]. Tools used in this post.

Metrics 60

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

market in terms of revenue dollars (there is no question that digital tools will successfully impact specific acute diseases/disorders, but it’s our intuition these are best left to 100% focused HC investors). If you were going to pay somebody to put in software, what would you worry about? Would anyone ever do that?

Singapore 43

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