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

The Next Web

Taking into account the difference in storage costs in 2002, Schippers estimates that Zuckerberg was spending $3,000 per month on hosting for the first year and about $10 million per month by 2006 as the network grew exponentially in that time period. So 15 people at an average salary of $110,000 and you’re looking at about $1.65

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How to Find the Time to Accomplish Anything

Feld Thoughts

In 2002, I met Libba and Gifford Pinchot, cofounders of Bainbridge Graduate Institute , at a retreat. During this period, I helped Hewlett-Packard save on the order of ten million dollars a year on customer support costs, roughly a 100x return on my salary. OK, I drew a salary while at HP.) Enter the Craziness.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

Low salary. The truth is that in my experience very, very few people really enjoy the “pure&# startup environment: months with no salary, months with no live product and lots of trial, error & rejection. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. And a comfortable salary.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

Low salary. The truth is that in my experience very, very few people really enjoy the “pure&# startup environment: months with no salary, months with no live product and lots of trial, error & rejection. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. And a comfortable salary.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. I have talked in the past about other layers that are emerging particularly in social networking and mobile applications. No wonder people had to raise $5 million just to get started back then. We raised $16.5 million in our A round. Other Layers.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. But I admit, I started programming assembly at 11 and then did a lot of C++ before moving on to.NET in 2002. We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002.

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