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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Gross Profit (also called Gross Margin or sometimes “Net Revenue”). Simplifying: Revenue -. Operating Costs.

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10 Realities Today Cause Startups To Bypass An IPO

Startup Professionals Musings

Smart entrepreneurs are just now starting to look at this option again, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company. Too many startups have experienced early financial losses and technical glitches, like Uber and the Zynga IPO a while back, which antagonized individual investors and startup executives as well.

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10 Negatives That Still Make Going Public A High Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

Smart entrepreneurs are just now starting to look at this option again, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company. Yet they still see warning lights in many geographies around the world, due to political uncertainties. Public companies are always at risk for takeovers.

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Taking Your Startup Public Is Fraught With Negatives

Startup Professionals Musings

Smart entrepreneurs now avoid this option like the plague, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company. There is no accommodation for smaller public companies, who can’t be competitive in their space with the new accounting, documenting, and reporting processes required.

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

InfoChachkie

Yet, despite his exceptional courtroom theatrics, you would be foolhardy to hire good old Johnnie to review your software cross-licensing agreement. Once you draft the straightforward text, sans the legal mumbo-jumbo, ask your lawyer to review the text to ensure your layman descriptions do not result in an unintended interpretation.