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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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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?

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The beginner’s guide to valuing and selling your app

The Next Web

For example, if your app earns $100 a month and you can’t figure out how to increase the revenue, you could sell it for around $1,200 and collect the revenue for the rest of the year right away instead of waiting for it to come in. You can then use the $1,200 as seed money to work on a new idea. The right moment.