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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. Gross Burn vs. Net Burn. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it Net burn is the amount of money you are losing per month.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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It would not be a big stretch to image a well run service business like this making 15-25% net profit margins. You own the IP you create. Even tech blogs know this. Tech blogs can theoretically scale, tech conferences are pure service businesses. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years.

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Why The Media Has Been Wrong About YouTube Networks

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I will talk about these strategies in my next blog post. Selling at smaller retailers will net you fewer customers and higher margins. Give access to music that is legal, avoiding lawsuits and ensuring revenue isn’t captured by other IP owners. Developing O&O (owned & operated) businesses (outside of YouTube).

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

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Most corporate attorneys can give you general guidance with respect to securing your Intellectual Property (IP) rights, especially with respect to trademarks, copyrights and other non-patent-related items. You do not want your IP lawyer to learn the prior art associated with your technology on your dime. Your Lawyer is not a Doberman….

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Why Lawsuits Are On the Rise at Startups and What To Do About It

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Even when I’m not the one being sued I find myself being dragged into deposition after deposition and my blog (along with all my emails) are being served as evidence. Nobody talks about this publicly because the fights are too personal so people don’t blog about them. Lawsuits are becoming so prevalent these days.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1. It really only needs a few community leaders to kick things off and land a community on a map.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

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I didn’t mean to be so insulting and I didn’t mean for the net to be cast so wide that many people wondered whether I was talking about them when I was speaking of “job hoppers.&# I learned a lot from reading the comments. No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog.

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