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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. You own the IP you create. He is the majority owner.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

For the third consecutive year , VC Cafe puts the spotlight on the Israeli companies exhibiting in the MWC 2011 event. Interested to meet any of these companies face to face at the WMC 2011? Below are the 56 Israeli companies who will exhibit at the 2011 Mobile World Congress: 3G Vision. Allot Communications. Craze Productions.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue. This solution clearly differentiated for the sales team, and also ensured quality search results, whether paid or organic. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

For instance, Columbia has launched a variety of explicitly interdisciplinary centers in recent years, including the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute , Columbia Data Science Institute ; the Brown Institute for Media Innovation ; or cross-school courses such as Columbia Business and Engineering’s Research to Revenue course.

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Ubiquitous Computing and the Misguided Frenzy About “Mobile”

Agile VC

But a couple of data points for perspective… Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than all the Macs they sold in the combined 28 years previously. Gaming is still the largest category, where you see multiple mobile game companies with $100M+ revenue (e.g. Gameloft, Rovio) and a couple $1B+ revenue companies in Asia (GREE, DeNA).

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. Performance-based deals are healthy for all parties. link] Chris Puttick.

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