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Is Winter coming for startups?

VC Cafe

If the product is something else and cannot produce software gross margins then it needs to be valued like other similar businesses with similar margins, but maybe at some premium to recognize the leverage it can get through software. Fred Wilson, AVC blog. What is Blitzscaling?

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

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

But for all this to happen, a really key point is to have a really good prospectus. A prospectus is what gets the initial interest from people. A prospectus is actually very easy to put together. Audience: I bought pre-existing software, some $97 software that I uploaded, and then just did all the connections directly to Amazon.

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How Andreessen Horowitz Evaluates CEOs

Ben's Blog

In my personal experience, the best decision that I made in my career—the decision to sell the Loudcloud business to EDS and become Opsware the software company—would have lost by landslide had I put it to vote with my employees, my investors, or my customers. The white box CEO evaluation criteria—&# does the CEO know what to do?&#