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17y ago
In addition to taking economics, accounting, and law classes, I really learned a lot from reading public corporation's proxy statements. I would literally spend hours reading through Disney's annual proxy statements. You can find them on th
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Yeah, they're mostly in the westside (Santa Monica area), but it's actually not that bad to get there. Takes me 30 minutes from Pasadena. Choose wisely between 101/405 or Sunset depending on the time of day.
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What do you mean by a "business that makes money"? A lot of startups operate at a loss for their first year or two. I think more often than not, instead of a young startup having positive net income, they either have (a) some kind of fund
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It looks like you asked the same question twice... but here is what I said in your other posting: I think a "startup" is an innovative company that has existed for a short period of time. If it's software, it's probably still in beta. A s
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I think a "startup" is an innovative company that has existed for a short period of time. If it's software, it's probably still in beta. A startup is probably in early research and development stages. A startup is probably looking for som
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Startups paid that much because they didn't buy lots of air time and they went directly to networks (paid "retail") instead of going through a media planning and buying agency. Most startups couldn't afford to go to major media planning and