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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

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Internet scale. Gross Profit (also called Gross Margin or sometimes “Net Revenue”). And assuming they both had the same net profit margins (profit / revenue) then the former company would be much better off at the end of the year. In many Internet startups 80% of the operating costs will be people.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

Deep Learning /Neural Nets – a subfield of machine learning. Neural nets are effective at a variety of tasks ( e.g., image classification, speech recognition). A deep learning neural net algorithm is given massive volumes of data, and a task to perform – such as classification. Dedicated chips for neutral nets (e.g.

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6 New Venture Realities To Target Your Funding Effort

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”).

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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Recently — in the name of censoring pornography — China blocked access to Google and demanded that computers sold in China come supplied with an Internet nanny filter called Green Dam Youth Escort, starting July 1. That means the established firms created no new net jobs during that period. That is about 40 million jobs.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

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The future of the Internet is video. My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). 10 signs Internet TV is Ready to Disrupt the Industry. You can’t change media consumption patterns easily. Production costs have fallen more than 90%.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. Banner or AdSense style ads placed either at the top of the page or down the right hand side (often called a skyscraper) would only net Twitter money for users that log into Twitter.com. Users were outraged. “The Internet is free, you can’t make money off it!

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words.