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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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Gross Burn vs. Net Burn. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it Net burn is the amount of money you are losing per month. I often see companies burning $100,000 per month (net) looking to raise $6-8 million.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. Felipe grew up in Brazil. More red tape.

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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

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Server-side software infrastructure – virtually all modern web applications rely on virtualization, scaling, load-balancing, and database technologies, among many others. Once Larry and Sergey developed search’s secret sauce, PageRank, they backwards-integrated into server-side software technologies to power and scale search.

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5 Reasons Why Businesses Still Love Microsoft

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All we have to do is look at the data, though: Since its launch in 2005, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has sold 66 million copies worldwide. Microsoft donated over $504 million worth of software to 43,650 organizations worldwide in 2010. That makes it the first in console sales. And that’s why businesses continue to depend on Microsoft.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

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AGN was sold to Net-TV pioneer Pseudo Programs and Rubin served as VP of Games and Sports programming. From 1997 through 2005, Robin was a marketing executive and general manager at PepsiCo. Before G4, Scot founded All Games Network (AGN). Sponsored giveaways and contests. Custom ad deals and partnerships.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. My own background, is I built and sold two software-as-a-service companies. That as unhealthy.