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how does a website like youtube make money
Other than small ads that came a couple years later after youtube's first launch and paid videos to be displayed as featured videos how can a site like youtube that has so many expenses profit? Where ...
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Defer Taxes on Profits in an S-Corporation
Are there any ways to defer taxation on S-Corp profits in a year?
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Can one have a lower net margin than gross margin?
If gross margin is 100%, is it possible for net margin to be lower:
If you keep 100% of the revenue you make, how can you receive less percent of every dollar. Shouldn't gross and net both be 100%
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When calculating Gross Profit Margin, do you include funds raised
When calculating Gross Profit Margin, do you include the startup funds you raised in your net sales or just the sales you've made
For example, should it look like:
Net Sales..
...Plus startup funds
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How does dotSub make money? Can I find out if it is profitable?
DotSUB allows anyone to upload videos and provides an interface for subtitling them - to anyone. Looking at the subtitles and their timing of appearance, Khan Academy seems to have crowdsourced ...
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Software consultants VS Software houses profitability
Let me preface by providing a specific definition of the two types of companies I am interested in.
Consultants: Software companies that generally provide their services on an hourly basis to create ...
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Profiting from a community-based website WITHOUT advertisments
What are some ways of profiting from a user-driven community-based website? The client base is for programmers, and it promotes getting individuals to come together, work, and showcase their final ...
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What should be our commission/expectation if we can help a big company to stop losing money?
Short background: we are 3 developers who formed a small startup for a very niche market. We do mostly programing but recently we started to provide consultancy as well. We've been working with a very ...
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How is it possible to make a profit off of iPhone apps?
Question: How is it possible to make a profit off of iPhone apps? I ran the math and I don't see how it's possible. What am I missing? What is a successful strategy?
Background: Yesterday I started ...
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Evaluating a startup
My question is, what is the best way to evaluate a software startup as a perspective employee from the point of view of viability i.e. economic viability.
I am more interested in hints related to ...
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Inputs on partnership startup
I am planning to work as a partner in a startup along with my friend. Since he is a critical resource so he is taking a major chunk of the equity and holds the decision making power. I being a part ...
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Price, cost, profit, on-demand software by enterprise to “us”
we are 2 developers that have been working for a consultancy doing a mobile app for about a year, now we are ending our contracts. The enterprise that has contracted our actual/anterior ...
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Monetizing sites similar to deviantART
How does a website like deviantART make money? They allow users to create free accounts and upload data for free. I heard some venture capitalists invest in such websites but how can one capitalize ...
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How to know that a startup is profitable?
How to say that a startup software company is getting profit? for example some said that if you have in bank account salaries and expenses for 3 months and running projects, this means you are getting ...
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How to calculate if I can make profit?
I am working a website where some people pay money for things that we sell and some people get money for services that they provide to us. Basically, from what others pay us, we pay others.
My ...
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How do you determine which projects will be the most profitable?
I'm currently a CS grad student and am wanting to test out how successful I can be at a entrepreneur this summer since I'll have all my time to myself. I've thought about mobile app development, in ...
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What size of companies are the most profitable?
I often read about large companies that are in major trouble. According to the theories of economies of scale/scope large companies should, almost by definition, be profitable. t also seems like the ...
