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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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StackOverflow – We both have a love fest for Joel Spolsky who also co-founded Fog Creek Software. He is the author of “ Joel on Software ” and I was a reader nearly 10 years ago when I had never heard of Fred Wilson, Brad Feld and VentureHacks didn’t exist. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA.