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Every Online User Platform Needs Revenue To Survive

Startup Professionals Musings

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” Design a product or service that you can sell. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits. So let’s take a look.

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11 Small Business Grants and Loans to Apply For in 2024

Tech.Co

While free money may sound too good to be true, there are hundreds of grants available to small businesses in 2024 designed to make financing more accessible to business owners. Want to browse the web privately? ? Since 2006, NASE has handed out almost $1,000,000 through the program. Or appear as if you're in another country?

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

Tech Zulu Event

Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are striving to be the super-mega technology company that owns every layer of the value chain. To understand that assertion, let’s observe how and when Google encroached on each layer of the technology value chain required to access any web service. Search is just another web application.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Current round: $3mm in Series B by betaworks (lead)(largest investor in company), Ron Conway, Danny Rimer, Accelerator Group, Roger Ehrenberg, Howard Lindzon. Company still in beta. MetaMarkets.

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Interview with Sean Broihier, Fine Art America

socalTECH

more--or you can go online and use Fine Art America (www.fineartamerica.com), a Santa Monica company which is doing. The company's founder and CEO is Sean Broihier , who told us all about the site--and also how. he's taken an built a company, literally single handedly, to multiple millions in revenue, by enabling artists and.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. That little online book company.

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How To Set A Balance Of User Growth Vs Profitability

Startup Professionals Musings

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” Design a product or service that you can sell. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits. So let’s take a look.