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Beware of Ballers on a Budget

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I was sitting with the financing guy who was trying to upsell me everything from pre-paying service to prepaying dent repair coverage, etc. I still drive the same car I bought for cash in 2005. Your 2am coding session is more important than their 2am cocktails on the redeye back from Japan where they have no customers.

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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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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. I’m not covering the actual layers of the Internet (under the OSI model) but rather the Cloud Services layer. That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. But software companies often take longer to scale top-line revenue than retailers so it takes a while to cover your nut.

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

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TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. 1 st Street Partners provides strategic management services to technology, entertainment and consumer goods companies. From 1997 through 2005, Robin was a marketing executive and general manager at PepsiCo. Make sure to tune in! Sponsored giveaways and contests.

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Interview with Brett Crosby and Brew Johnson, PeerStreet

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We sat down with Brett Crosby (who founded Urchin Software, the company which became Google Analytics) and Brew Johnson , the co-founders of the company, to learn more about the company and what it's working on. I came up with this idea due to a deep obsession with the mortgage industry. Where are you now with the service?

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

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