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Investors Measure Entrepreneurs By Cashflow Mileage

Startup Professionals Musings

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.

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Microsoft’s Purchase Of Minecraft Maker Mojang Shows Comitment To Building Cross-Platform Appeal

YoungUpstarts

billion acquisition of Sweden-based software company Mojang, the developer behind the popular building game ““Minecraft”, which has sold over 100 million copies since its release in 2009, illustrates the degree to which Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s long-term vision for Microsoft is taking root at that company. Microsoft’s $2.5

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Anodot (2014) – a real-time analytics and automated anomaly detection system that discovers outliers in vast amounts of data. Fraugster (2014) – Technically based in Berlin, the company uses AI to predict malicious attacks before they happen. Logz.io (2014) – Logz.io Raised $8M in series B in September 2016.

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23 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We started our business in 2014, after a successful Kickstarter campaign. My expertise in product development and project management came after working as a consultant in many industries. When I first started the company, we used to take up pretty much everything in the software development spectrum. 9- Find my passion.

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The Great Coding School Rollup of 2015

Feld Thoughts

As you are probably aware, 2014 saw the explosion of coding schools all over the US. I know several people who have gone through the with great success and gone on to have excellent software development jobs. Companies were being bought (and valued) at 10x forward revenue only to be valued at between 0.5x

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Twitter Link Roundup #238 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

5 Things I Learned Analyzing Buffer’s Revenue Dashboard | Ivan Kreimer – crowdspring.co/1xfTwMG. 30 Fantastic Free Fonts for Designers, September 2014 | Design You Trust – crowdspring.co/1xGhzaC. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

And >40% of that revenue is coming from in-game purchases. Meanwhile startups like Zebedee are creating software development kits (SDKs) for the long tail of indie game developers to integrate lightning payments into their games as well. . The app could then take a small % of all revenue from “paid” messages.