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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

But it’s a very challenging question to answer because what it would cost to build is a small number while operational costs are enormous.”. Suddenly, those multi-million dollar financing rounds that startups raise don’t seem so outrageous! Others would say one million or a much bigger number. 4) WhatsApp. 8) Angry Birds.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth. Katrina has also proven herself in the recruiting field, having recruited Eric Colson from Netflix to run analytics and algorithms, Mike Smith from WalMart.com to run operations, and Jeff Barrett from Opower to build engineering.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

Guest author Bernard Lunn is a serial entrepreneur and business adviser to start-ups and is ReadWriteWeb's former Chief Operating Officer. But the enterprise software bootstrapping past was based on upfront license fees where the customer took the financing risk. So VCs will need to invest. The case study to watch is Yammer.

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Netflix vs. Blockbuster and bad profits (reflections from my Bazaarvoice days)

Austin Startup

And, as a result, they lost almost 90% of their market value in a little over three years, dropping from around $7 billion in value as of Q2–2002 (only one quarter prior to Netflix going public) to their current value of $0.73 Apple has been a huge catalyst for digital music downloads due to the viral success of the iPod.

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Cracking The Code: Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson?

Cracking the Code

Salesforce.com just has average to below-average profitability" Everyone would agree that the value of an operating asset is defined by the sum of its discounted future cash flows. 2002, the stock price went from $17.5 Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Yahoo Finance. per share to $8.0 Software 2.0: Justin Label.