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6 Signs That Your Startup Could Be The Next Exception

Startup Professionals Musings

Sergey, a mathematical wizard, is the arbiter of Google’s technological approach. Technology alone does not make a great company. Google developed the most profitable form of advertising anyone had ever seen, ads selected real-time based on search terms. They focused on small advertisers looking for bargains.

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6 Signals That Your Startup Could Be The Next Google

Startup Professionals Musings

Sergey, a mathematical wizard, is the arbiter of Google’s technological approach. Technology alone does not make a great company. Google developed the most profitable form of advertising anyone had ever seen, ads selected real-time based on search terms. They focused on small advertisers looking for bargains.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

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The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. “COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you.

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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Confident Technologies / Curtis Staker / San Diego - Staker is the former President of Websense, and has pulled together an experienced team with a depth of experience from the firm.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. It would not be a big stretch to image a well run service business like this making 15-25% net profit margins. This team is talented. They wanted advice.

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Savings.com: The California Internet Tax Law and Unintended Consequences

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One, is the issue of whether Amazon should have to collect sales tax for California. That nexus says that you have to collect sales tax from California residents when they sell items to them. If technology business relocate, the industry will end up suffering. I think there are two things going on. So what actually happened?

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6 Reasons Why The Google Leaders Were An Exception

Startup Professionals Musings

Sergey, a mathematical wizard, is the arbiter of Google’s technological approach. Technology alone does not make a great company. Google developed the most profitable form of advertising anyone had ever seen, ads selected real-time based on search terms. They focused on small advertisers looking for bargains.

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