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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Everybody has known that for awhile, even without perusing a prospectus. But ops & customer support is another 17-20% of revenue and arguably you couldn’t run the business if you took that away. For what it’s worth, I suspect that Airbnb will continue to grow fairly rapidly and continue to redefine the lodging category.

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Don’t Pitch A Venture Capitalist Without This Checklist

David Teten

The cover note should include: name, website, location, revenues (if any), detailed financing history (if any), and precise terms on which you are seeking to raise capital. Customer/user. Naming your file “Pitch.ppt” does not make you look thoughtful, considerate, or organized. Business Model. How do you make money?

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One Little Ice Cream Cart That’s About to Have Big Growth

Up and Running

People in Eugene loved it,” Red Wagon says in a funding prospectus (more on that in a bit). “In Red Wagon has been named “Best of Eugene Frozen Treats” by local newspaper “Eugene Weekly,” and their ice creams have been featured in food blogs and magazines such as “Sunset” and AAA’s “Via.”

Oregon 60
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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

All of you people who haven’t seen my blog, please remember my name or that website address. I have a few contractors to do the technical side of my work and a customer support person, but that’s it. I didn’t have that contractor doing customer support. I changed the name, by the way, to MTGParadise.com. He’s German.