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Most Startups Should be Deer Hunters

Both Sides of the Table

Initially as a systems designer and programmer and post MBA as a strategy consultant. I could easily go into the board rooms of major European companies (I was based in London) and land $500k – $1 million contracts so my order book grew rapidly. Some companies / products are designed for large organizations from day 1.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

socalTECH

Nils Forsblom: TenFarms is a mobile app developer. PhotoPoll is our first app to push live, and now we're working on our second app, AdTile, which is a mobile advertising solution for applications and mobile software. It was the guy we'd outsourced as CEO. What are TenFarms and PhotoPoll? So you're making multiple applications?

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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

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The firm notably has Atari founder Nolan Bushnell as an advisor and serving as its chief game designer. So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. So Nolan is behind the design of the games? My other, non-marketable skill included philosophy.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

Gross margins at 66% is fine (they’re selling through a reseller who takes a 33% margin) but their sales aren’t yet large enough to cover the costs of their IT development team + management + marketing + office costs, etc. The advertiser who bought the ads might pay the ad network in 60 days. ” Quick examples: 1.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 5. Outsourcing

Frank Addante

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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Interview with Dan Yomtobian, Scour

socalTECH

Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. What's the business model behind the site--it looks like this is advertising driven? Dan Yomtobian: 100 percent of our revenues come from advertisers, and from people clicking on sponsored listings. It's pretty much been all organic.

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Why recurring revenues increase your company’s value

Berkonomics

Application developers once considered their products as licensed in what would closely be allied to a single sale. Content providers found the same thing when many found that they could charge a subscription fee instead of relying just upon advertising. The massive shift in revenue models in recent years. Call it the Netflix effect.