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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. Why Shouldn’t Most Services Businesses Raise VC? You own the IP you create.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

Do you imagine eventually raising VC and trying to build a faster growing company?” ” Because of the circles I run in I tend to meet many people who eventually do want to build large companies and therefore do want to eventually raise VC and “go big.” ” But they want to do it with leverage.

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Interview with Kelly Tompkins, AdventureLink

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Kelly Tompkins: Yes, in 1998, there was Away.com, iExplore, and there was significant venture capital thrown at that segment. Their idea was to catch enough consumers to scale, but they didn't understand the cost of acquisition, of finding customers, marketing, and advertising. Talk about your VoIP network?

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