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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. You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. So let’s take a look.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!

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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. You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. So let’s take a look.

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Interview with Tim Cadogan, OpenX

socalTECH

Tim is the former head of Yahoo's Global Advertising Marketplaces unit, overseeing Display, Search and Video, and was VP of Search at Overture. We help web publishers make more money out of advertising. We manage that competition through an aucton process. How is the competitive landscape is nowadays?

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Interview with Dan Yomtobian, Scour

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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. We give users something they don't get anywhere else, for something they do every day--searching the web.

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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. You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. So let’s take a look.

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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. You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. So let’s take a look.