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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

There was no money train. There were startups and a software industry but barely. In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. Starting in 2009 I began writing checks consistently, year-in and year-out. It was 1991. We still loved every moment.

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5 Startup Cost Realities Most Founders Underestimate

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Flickr by Phil Gyford Starting a new venture still costs real money, even though the entry price has come down dramatically in last few decades. For example, I come from a software background, and back in the early PC days, it could easily cost half a million dollars for a team of professionals to produce a commercial product.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch LA

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. The vast majority of those are nowhere up to modern codes. ” Climate resiliency .

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

socalTECH

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. I had worked as a tutor for Princeton Review, and Jake for Kaplan. We thought, we could put out a better product than Kaplan or Princeton Review, which would be more compelling, and also would tie in a strong social mission.

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What Can You Learn From Ring’s Astounding Success?

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Many people will write the history on why Ring became an enormously successful company and why it became a real-world unicorn in a world when many startups are anointed that merely on paper. Jamie’s ethos led him to price at just $3 / user / camera / month at a time when traditional home security companies’ monthly fees were so unaffordable.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

Write things down. They had a team trained up in Documentum and we certainly had enemies from the inside. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. Be gracious. Don’t ignore your losses.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

Write things down. They had a team trained up in Documentum and we certainly had enemies from the inside. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. Be gracious. Don’t ignore your losses.