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How To Staff A Startup With (Almost) No Money

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Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! At the beginning, before you have investors, it is not unusual for you (and possibly employees) to forego salary for extended periods of time. StartupDigest , for instance, champions the Curator Model.

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Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model

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After you get past hobby project you quickly get into the realms of a) serious revenue being directly dependent on the website, b) serious hard costs like fully-loaded developer salaries for doing suboptimal “cobble it together ourselves from monit scripts” solutions, and c) serious career/business reputational risks if things break.

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How to Build a Restaurant Sales Forecast

Up and Running

This article is part of our Restaurant Business Startup Guide —a curated list of articles to help you plan, start, and grow your restaurant business! She could figure on a few thousand in rent, a few thousand in salaries, and then decide that she should continue planning, from the quick view, like it could be a viable business.

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I Wish I'd Known That. [Digital Analytics Edition.]

Occam's Razor

These lessons might have made some goals easier to accomplish, some frustrations easier to avoid and some salary jumps easier to come by. Aggregation of marginal gains! This post is a collection of six things I wish I knew before I started my career in decision support systems (of which web analytics is just the latest incarnation).

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