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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

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.” Valuation.

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Better Business Bureau? For who?

Eric Greenspan

Anyhow, I replied and asked who pays who here and found that First Data pays Chad a commission for his sales. He told me this was a service the BBB provided to its customers since they saved so much money on the same service. I was saddened to read them as we really are all about EXTREME Customer Service at Make It Work.

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Some Career Advice for Aspiring Tech CEOs

Both Sides of the Table

” It was meant both as a call to those writing angel checks into other people’s companies that they ought to think about putting that capital toward themselves either by becoming a startup founder or (and this was my real point) by taking an under-market salary in a company where they can learn the right skills to do it in the future.

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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

TechEmpower

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. Overall, performance is in the service of user expectations. So, why does this happen?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. I decided that I was going to consult/advise a few companies and relax for a bit. So, I put him in charge of our data centers and technical operations.

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