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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

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Often this situation is characterized as a “good problem to have” until you’re the technical person who needs to solve the problem—and quickly. Well, there are a number of technical reasons for applications suffering performance issues. Meanwhile, Amazon famously claimed 1% fewer sales for each additional 100ms of latency.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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Let’s set up a framework. Gross margin (GM) is the amount of profit you make per sale of your product or service taking into account your total costs of selling that product or service. In these kinds of businesses I’m on the record as advising “ Ring the Freakin Cash Register.” Gross Burn vs. Net Burn.

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How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

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I would argue that this mostly consists of consumer Internet companies (although not exclusively) and it is predominantly early-stage people who are product gurus and have a mildly technical bend to them. Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. But flip you must – just as in a sales meeting. It’s subtle.