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APRIL 25, 2011

It would not be a big stretch to image a well run service business like this making 15-25% net profit margins. You own the IP you create. I could go on-and-on with all of the sales-blocking messages you will hear when you try to charge for a product. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years. It’s pure irony.

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. “COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

some fun, big tech issues like privacy, net neutrality, location-based services and real-time data. Net neutrality (1:09:00). We discuss Googles plan to pay more to Verizon in order to be on a higher speed connection and get its mobile content to users faster. lessons learned from his days as an entrepreneur.

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APRIL 27, 2010

I didn’t mean to be so insulting and I didn’t mean for the net to be cast so wide that many people wondered whether I was talking about them when I was speaking of “job hoppers.&# I learned a lot from reading the comments. I never built Google. I should have kept it in third person. million, then $5.9m, $7.7m

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