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A heartbreaking story about time and money.

Berkonomics

Although young companies rarely measure profitability this repeatedly, more mature companies usually can bring from five to ten percent of revenues to the bottom line in the form of net profit. The financial pain of unplanned delays. We often accept that development schedules for young companies are almost always too optimistic.

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Wasted time is money lost.

Berkonomics

Although young companies rarely measure profitability this repeatedly, more mature companies usually can bring from five to ten percent of revenues to the bottom line in the form of net profit. We often accept that development schedules for young companies are almost always too optimistic.

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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. 500K might be a low estimate.

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Wasted time is money lost. (And another story of lost opportunity.)

Berkonomics

Although young companies rarely measure profitability this repeatedly, more mature companies usually can bring from five to ten percent of revenues to the bottom line in the form of net profit. Email readers continue here.] We often accept that development schedules for young companies are almost always too optimistic.

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10 Ways to Size Your Company’s Value for Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. 500K might be a low estimate.

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

socalTECH

Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company. Running on a Dell pizza box, we can run 20 times as many calls as other software, giving us the lowest cost basis in the industry. Asterisk was not build with scalability in mind, and it was built by software engineers who don't know telecom.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

Tech Zulu Event

. “While our competitors have been chasing telecom rates to zero, we have kept our focus on delivering value in both our software and our services, which supports superior margins while providing customizable solutions via our software and API suite,” he said.