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I Buy Dead Magazines (the art of the intro …)

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The life of an entrepreneur is filled with 20 second opportunities. I buy dead magazines.” I buy dead magazines. We think that the magazine industry is going through incredible change but that the Internet website experience doesn’t yet fulfill our magazine needs. We buy dead magazines. Most are squandered.

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Have you heard? Eyeballs aren’t everything.

Berkonomics

Email users, continue here… ] That is the quandary which entrepreneurs face today in building models for new companies around a web presence. Once we had what we thought was the answer, in allowing for display advertising on these sites. Bringing us to today – Viewers or profit? Revenue experiments (and failures).

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Robb Report's Bill Curtis On Why Podcasting Is The Next Media Frontier

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We have published 74 different magazine titles over the last 30 years. For an advertiser, you have to look at whether or not the message is even available to the audience. That, of course, is what you're selling to your advertisers. That's absolutely crucial in magazines, and in the way we ran events.

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My Favorite Entrepreneur Story in a Long Time

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If you ever want to read the great American generational immigrant business story read American Pastoral by Philip Roth, which won the Pulitzer Prize and was voted by Time Magazine as one of the best 100 books of all time. How much could the new generation of entrepreneurs learn from that? He wasn’t driven by quick riches.

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Want to Know How to Better Partner With, Raise Money From or Be Acquired by a Big Media Company?

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They are best known for their magazine titles such as The New Yorker, Wired, Vanity Fair and Vogue. Key moments: 16 minutes in: Transitioning magazine readers to e-formats. 4:45 How do young entrepreneurs begin to work with a company like yours? 15:30 How do you view the transition of your magazines to the iPad, to e-readers?

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10 Tests of Your Modern Entrepreneur Lingo Savvy

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs I know don’t realize that the language they learned in the corporate world, or even their recent MBA class, won’t get them ahead in the startup world today. As a reality check, try this quick test of your entrepreneur savvy. As a reality check, try this quick test of your entrepreneur savvy. Ramen-profitable.

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Eyeballs aren’t everything.

Berkonomics

That is the quandary which entrepreneurs face today in building models for new companies around a web presence. Once we had what we thought was the answer, in allowing for display advertising on these sites. Email readers, continue here.] Great revenue projections from a small user base lead to worries over sustainability.

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