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De-risk Your Startup By Doing It Again: The Joy Of Getting The Band Back Together

InfoChachkie

The team has applied its deep understanding of telephony and online marketing to create an infrastructure which allows advertisers to track phone calls like clicks. The team is applying its ad network and ad serving insights to the emerging world of mobile advertising. Alma mater, Overture: sold to Yahoo.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Fast early growth in a market is often eroded when competition gets fierce and prices are forced down due to competition. Let’s consider the following two software companies, both of which have 66% gross margins.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

Those crappy bots not only cost you money because they keep your server busy and increase your bandwidth bill, they actively decrease your advertising revenue because your visitors hit the back button when your page isn’t responsive due to the heavy bot traffic. It can get worse when a URI gets retweeted often. googlebot.com&#.