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How to Make Sure Professional Services Don’t Take Over Your Software Company

Both Sides of the Table

I think it’s important for enterprise startups to layer in professional services into your revenue stream. deliver profitable revenue that while on gross margins of 50% vs. software at 85-95% it is still profits to help you cover fixed costs. That is the software business. rollout support. configuration.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Extended Requests for Startups 2025 list

VC Cafe

AI Agents & Software Personalised AI Agent Development: Create AI agents that can understand user intent, plan actions, and improve through continuous learning, with a focus on specific verticals like travel, healthcare, or finance. This request calls for a rethinking of how documents are created and distributed for e-signature using AI.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

Some specific defense related AI applications are listed later in this document. You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. These rules are explicitly coded into a program using a software language (Python, JavaScript, C#, Rust, …).

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7 Ethical Fictions Lead Many New Entrepreneurs Astray

Startup Professionals Musings

One 11-year study of over 200 companies over a decade ago, detailed in the book “ Corporate Culture and Performance ,” found that those working on their culture improved revenue by 516%, and increased net income by 755%. Unethical behavior in business is just due to a few ‘bad apples.’ Ethics can’t be managed.

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7 Myths About Ethics Which Will Hurt Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

One 11-year study of over 200 companies, detailed in “ Corporate Culture and Performance ,” found that those working on their culture improved revenue by 516%, and increased net income by 755%. While codes of behavior do not guarantee an ethical culture, they do clarify desired behavior and articulate for employees what is expected of them.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

The assets you can protect may include your “core technology&# like source code, hardware designs, architectures, processes, formulas. software, songs, movies, web site content. _. If your product is software, copyright is also used to prevent someone from stealing your software and reselling it as machine and/or source code.)