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Items tagged business in 2016

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Help with next steps for a startup

Have you thought about applying to Y Combinator? The reason I ask is that “I have lots of expertise in language learning and basically zero expertise in startups, market research, business, fundraising, app pricing, etc” is pretty much YC’s sweet spot: they know that it’s much easier teaching those things to engineers and makers than it is to teach engineering to business people (I’m assuming you have product and engineering skills based on your description of your progress so far).

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9:54 am / 4th September 2016 / askmetafilter, business, fundraising, research, small, vc, market

What’s the first thing you would check if the company is losing money even though there’s a big increase in its revenue?

The company’s expenses.

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2:12 pm / 15th August 2016 / business, entrepreneurship, startups, quora, careers

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