Cost Revenue Seed Money Software Review 
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 27, 2011
If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. ” If you’re not profitable you’re purely a cost center to them. Simplifying: Revenue -. Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) =.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 25, 2016
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. And there’s this other thing called “gross margin,” which shows the quality of your revenue. How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make?
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www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. The contract work burn out is totally where I’m coming from… chip WAAIIITTT… wasn’t the coding of the first version of Digg outsourced to some guy on Elance? What did you do again? Who knows.
pandodaily.com
NOVEMBER 29, 2012
“I wouldn’t expect anyone except seed investors to complain about it,” Graham says. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.”
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