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A heartbreaking story about time and money.

Berkonomics

Fixed overhead for salaries, rent, equipment leases and more make up the majority of the “burn rate” (monthly expenses) for most companies. Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. How about young or pre-revenue companies?

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23 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I monetize the site with Google AdSense and with a Grammarly affiliate program. When I first started the company, we used to take up pretty much everything in the software development spectrum. You decide your working hours, salary, and day-to-day decisions that are crucial to the success of your own business. Virtina !

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Wasted time is money lost.

Berkonomics

Fixed overhead for salaries, rent, equipment leases and more make up the majority of the “burn rate” (monthly expenses) for most companies. Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues.

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Could You – Should You – Fund Your Startup With Credit Cards?

ReadWriteStart

When Bob Herman founded Tropolis Group in 2010, he decided to finance with credit cards so he could take advantage of a cash-back rewards program and use the bounty to buy supplies for the business. So far, Herman has put about $60,000 on his credit cards, using them mostly to finance software development.

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Wasted time is money lost. (And another story of lost opportunity.)

Berkonomics

Fixed overhead for salaries, rent, equipment leases and more make up the majority of the “burn rate” (monthly expenses) for most companies. Although young companies rarely measure profitability this repeatedly, more mature companies usually can bring from five to ten percent of revenues to the bottom line in the form of net profit.

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Ten Things I Will Never Have to Do Again

Software By Rob

Also, there is a social benefit, I think, to creating jobs that pay a good salary and allow young people to develop a variety of skills. I’m one of those people that doesn’t play well with others when it comes to creative endeavors, and I view programming and software as a creative endeavor. 9 Rob on 09.30.10

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Their programs teach software programming and IT proficiency to people who have historically been excluded from those fields, and connects their graduates with tech companies around the country. They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom.

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