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The Industry Needs to do One Thing to Avoid Regulation: Provide Better Phone Support

Hunter Walker

And that’s why I’m challenging our government to regulate them. Software Margins It costs money to staff support team (duh) and if you’re not showing a high margin structure you risk being penalized from an enterprise value multiple. Whenever I have a question I just email the VP of the product and they respond really quickly.”

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5 Signs You Need to Create Your Startup Sponsorship Program

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Scaling will increase the cost it takes to do business and it often does it before you’re able to generate additional revenue in the traditional way your company acquires sales. VCs tend to gain most of their returns through carried interest- a percentage received as compensation from the profits of a hedge fund or private equity.

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Seed Investments in Insurrection

This is going to be BIG.

Similarly, I just got a pitch for a startup providing telehealth access that specialized in allergies—which I was pretty excited about until they told me that pharmaceutical companies were fronting the cost of their marketing. But second, it just makes the product better. I was both horrified and yet not surprised at all. Absolutely.