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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. Markets develop for a complex set of factors that are often beyond all of our control.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

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While Google and Facebook will buy “acquihires” (at least as of Dec 2011), many acquirers hate the idea of buying companies that aren’t profitable. Fast early growth in a market is often eroded when competition gets fierce and prices are forced down due to competition. million contract over two years.

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Schlep & Fetch: Delivering Anything and Everything, On Demand

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My wife is an illustrator and graphic designer, and she built the brand. In May of 2011, we finally got a delivery, after two months of doing that. At the time, we developed a collective buying scenario for restaurants, where everyone paid to have delivery service. Bryson Strauss: We actually started this four years ago.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." Sometimes fear is a good motivator.