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5 Considerations For Driving Growth In A New Business

Startup Professionals Musings

The concept of free goods and services to get you hooked, financed by deep pockets, or advertising, seems marginally ethical to many. Most modern investors still look for a business model that embodies a gross margin over 50%, and a net margin in the 20% range. Long-term stability requires revenue growth and profit.

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5 Strategies For Balancing Revenue Versus User Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

The concept of free goods and services to get you hooked, financed by deep pockets, or advertising, seems marginally ethical to many. Most modern investors still look for a business model that embodies a gross margin over 50%, and a net margin in the 20% range. Long-term stability requires revenue growth and profit.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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This was the first in her string of web properties. In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000. Second, she sells advertising, which given her tight demographic and the big spending that comes when one is planning a wedding she can monetize really well. She learned at the kitchen table as so many spouses do.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising? was the “static&# web.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

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Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”. LivingSocial.

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Should Entrepreneurs Grow Revenue Or User Count?

Startup Professionals Musings

The concept of free goods and services to get you hooked, financed by deep pockets or advertising, seems marginally ethical to many. Most modern investors still look for a business model that embodies a gross margin over 50 percent and a net margin in the 20 percent range. Long-term stability requires revenue growth and profit.

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5 Reasons Startups Need Revenue As Well As Users

Startup Professionals Musings

The concept of free goods and services to get you hooked, financed by deep pockets, or advertising, seems marginally ethical to many. Most modern investors still look for a business model that embodies a gross margin over 50%, and a net margin in the 20% range. Long-term stability requires revenue growth and profit.

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