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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

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YouTube takes too high of a revenue split (45% vs. 30% that Apple and many other distribution companies take – FWIW, YouTube argues this is because their costs are much higher since they host and stream the video). If you’re just a content company your advantages are too small to win on the web. But think of this.

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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

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But many CEO’s and management teams fail to set clear guidelines on what the company objectives are and make sure that everybody is driving toward the same goal. It’s actually quite hard to lay out an annual company strategy that is articulate and underpinned by facts. So you generate a ton of traffic to your website.

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Interview with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez, Ulevate

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Constantine is CEO of Ulevate, and Dmitri is an advisor, and also is known as the co-founder of email management and filtering software developer SaneBox. This seems very different from your background on software, how did you get into this? What is Ulevate? Dmitri Leonov: It's the Russian connection. That makes this a no-brainer.

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The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever

Startup Professionals Musings

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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You Don’t Need to be Rich to be an Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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Interview with John Tomich, Onestop Internet

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The company was incorporated in January of 2004, and we provide outsource e-commerce services to organizations, such as brands and retailers. Third, is we provide customer care and phone support for orders; the fourth is the software technology, the platform that powers everything. John Tomich: We've been around for five years.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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