Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

You struggle to get advertisers to pay your CPM rates and get your page clicks up in a business where you become a near commodity to ever other website out there. You end up needing to add staff and take on more risk without knowing what your future demand will be. Even tech blogs know this.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

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 started dabbling with a few ideas around online advertising, search engines and other random projects. Zondigo, Inc. Startup 3.0:

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This is a long post, so I put an executive summary here if you want to get the point without reading all the detail. If you plan to read the post you can skip the summary if you want. Summary / Putting it Into Action: Allocate enough time in your weekly routine for “being creative&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Summary notes, as always, provide below. I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand. It was a pleasure to write them myself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2012

Here is a summary of seven maxims that I excerpted from their e-book, which you can use in your startup and every entrepreneurial initiative: Work as a trusted customer advisor. Leaders focus first on identifying market problems that exist and can be solved with technology, not just promotion and advertising. Measure only what matters.

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Customer Custom Organization Summary 89

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Here is a summary of seven maxims that I excerpted from their e-book, which you can use in your startup and every entrepreneurial initiative: Work as a trusted customer advisor. Leaders focus first on identifying market problems that exist and can be solved with technology, not just promotion and advertising. Measure only what matters.

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Startup Organization Customer Custom 93

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Here is a summary of seven maxims that I excerpted from their e-book, which you can use in your startup and every entrepreneurial initiative: Work as a trusted customer advisor. Leaders focus first on identifying market problems that exist and can be solved with technology, not just promotion and advertising. Measure only what matters.

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Organization Customer Custom Summary 89

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

The 30-minute interview of Jonah Peretti is here but my summary in the notes below. He thinks the history of media businesses show that they have three fundamental pillars: news, entertainment and advertising and you need to be great at all three of these things. I asked Jonah about this. “I

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