Business Model PR Revenue Seed Money 
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 25, 2016
It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. And there’s this other thing called “gross margin,” which shows the quality of your revenue. How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make?
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. Because so little money is involved, raising seedcapital is comparatively easy-- at least in the sense of getting aquick yes or no.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
For both companies, the initial traction enabled raising seed money to get them to a traditional VC investment.) You lost credibility with your statement: “The problem is that many programmers have loads of talent with no product sense and business students have great designs with no way to implement them.&#
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