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Maintain Your Startup Motivation While Working Harder

Startup Professionals Musings

New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry.

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Balance Your Focus Between Passion And Perspiration

Startup Professionals Musings

New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 5. Outsourcing

Frank Addante

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. I am still a big fan of outsourcing.

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How A Pivot Turned Vantage Media Into A $100M Plus Business

socalTECH

More specifically, we are a real time bidding platform which enables marketplaces to be set up, where an advertiser can bid on consumers who are in the process of buying a particular product. Real time bidding allows advertisers to bid on users in a particular market, who are likely to be purchasing that company''s product.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

“I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.” In the “good old days”, pre- 1999, advertising dollars were largely gambled away. Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. Thus, include these unattributed customers in your overall calculation of customer acquisition costs.

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Interview with Elizabeth Cholawsky, HG Data

socalTECH

That was in the support space, where we were doing outsourced technical services. That took quite a bit of investment in organic growth and acquisitions. I was most recently at a public company, at Support.com, where I was the CEO. I did that, and ramped things up in the three years that I was at Support.com.

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How To Enjoy Your Business Dream As Well As The Work

Startup Professionals Musings

New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry.