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Every Online User Platform Needs Revenue To Survive

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Design a product or service that you can sell. Yet it took almost six years to become profitable, with revenue only from advertising. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

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Interview with Dan Yomtobian, Scour

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Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us.

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How To Set A Balance Of User Growth Vs Profitability

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Design a product or service that you can sell. Yet it took almost six years to become profitable, with revenue only from advertising. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

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Close5: eBay's San Diego Move Into The Mobile, Local Market

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That''s a major differentiator in the way we''ve designed this. That''s the part of eBay and our infrastructure that give us a competitive edge. That gives us a competitive edge, and takes away from something that is very anonymous to something more friendly and neighborly. That''s a big difference from many websites.

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Growth Without Profits Isn’t A Sustainable Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Design a product or service that you can sell. Yet it took almost six years to become profitable, with revenue only from advertising. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

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4 Ways To Make Profits Part Of Your Growth Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Design a product or service that you can sell. Yet it took almost six years to become profitable, with revenue only from advertising. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

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Hike Messaging App Launches Globally To Change The Game With Videos, Photos & Emoticons

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Hike is a person to person messaging app and mobile portal which Yahoo Japan is interested in working with. We believe they just deteriorate the user experience and hardly provide any real ROI to advertisers too. Competition? How unique are you from the competition? Several, most close are WhatsApp, Line, Kik. Challenges?