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Every Online User Platform Needs Revenue To Survive

Startup Professionals Musings

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Design a product or service that you can sell. But some of you will surely say “What about Facebook and Snapchat, who focused on growth first and are clearly successful?”

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How To Set A Balance Of User Growth Vs Profitability

Startup Professionals Musings

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Design a product or service that you can sell. But some of you will surely say “What about Facebook and Snapchat, who focused on growth first and are clearly successful?”

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Interview with Lidia Yan, NEXT Trucking

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Even though my family was reasonably more advanced, they were using a system which was still running on DOS, in black and blue, and was not even web-based. I was doing billing myself, I was doing product management, and that was the same with almost everything for the rest of my team. That's when we came up with NEXT Trucking.

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4 Ways To Make Profits Part Of Your Growth Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Design a product or service that you can sell. But some of you will surely say “What about Facebook and Snapchat, who focused on growth first and are clearly successful?”

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

Both Sides of the Table

Think of web vs. mobile. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. Simply put – I’d be in search of a VC who had an intuitive sense of my product, my customers, my organizational issues, my competitors, etc.

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The Coming Shift in Enterprise Software

Both Sides of the Table

(Part I, Team) Tact was founded by Chuck Ganapathi , who was formerly the SVP of Products at Salesforce.com having led initiatives like their chat product, CRM and mobile. For six years before that he was at Siebel who was the market leader in CRM before Salesforce, and he has both a masters in product design from Stanford and an MBA.

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What You Can Learn from a Scorpion

Both Sides of the Table

While all of this is going on you are trying to get customers to use your product, enterprises to sign contracts that don’t leave you with unlimited liabilities and landlords to take you in with limited deposits or guarantees. What are the chances that SnapChat or WhatsApp would emerge without getting crushed like a bug?

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