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Every Online User Platform Needs Revenue To Survive

Startup Professionals Musings

I think you will find that most investors will relate to the following strategy for keeping the right perspective and getting the profit versus growth balance right: Pick an idea that has the potential to make money. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads.

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Interview with Tim Cadogan, OpenX

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Among one of the fastest growing industries--despite what has been a stagnant economy--is Internet advertising, which has continued to grow strongly over the past two years. For today's interview, we spoke with Tim Cadogan , CEO of OpenX, to hear more about the firm's growth on the strength of Internet advertising, and what the firm is up to.

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How To Set A Balance Of User Growth Vs Profitability

Startup Professionals Musings

I think you will find that most investors will relate to the following strategy for keeping the right perspective and getting the profit versus growth balance right: Pick an idea that has the potential to make money. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

Both Sides of the Table

So while it started more about finding solutions to get him driving cars more or logging airline miles he also focuses on big, industry-changing ideas. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. They say that the best entrepreneurs are those who fundamentally want to solve problems or change industries.

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Growth Without Profits Isn’t A Sustainable Business

Startup Professionals Musings

I think you will find that most investors will relate to the following formula for keeping the right perspective and getting the profit versus growth balance right: Pick an idea that has the potential to make money. When their deep pockets went empty, Google stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads.

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4 Ways To Make Profits Part Of Your Growth Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

I think you will find that most investors will relate to the following strategy for keeping the right perspective and getting the profit versus growth balance right: Pick an idea that has the potential to make money. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads.

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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. However, we’ve seen some tremendous traction in terms of demand and growth in the last couple of weeks since we went live. We have 4-5 ideas on how to monetize this but that will come later. How any users so far?