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AirPush's Asher Delug: Bootstrapping Your Way To $100M

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Los Angeles-based mobile advertising company Airpush has quietly grown to around $100M in annual revenues, according to a recent ranking from Forbes--a big surprise, as the company was completely bootstrapped by founder Asher Delug , who eschewed the usual use of venture capital and private equity to build a company to those revenue levels.

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8 Key Rules for Starting a Business on a Shoestring

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A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising.

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Interview with Steve Pelletier, FatTail

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Most tools in the market are focused on the operations side, and post sales--what happens downstream, so publishers can provide proper revenue recognition and billing numbers. We've created a patent pending technology called Autobuild. How does your solution fit with the many automated tools and ad networks out there?

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Freelancers Are The New Entrepreneurs For Services

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Whether you are in manufacturing or software, you need experienced writers who can document your latest technology, write patents, and efficiently manage the multitude of data formats required by printing companies and advertisers. Information specialists. Then your apps need to run on the new iPhone platform.

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Interview with Allison Dollar, SnapCuts

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But, what she found was that not everyone has an editor's eye, and can use those video and video tools. Now, we're doing a push with a social agency, and are just starting to pull the trigger on advertising. She loves the notion of the creative process of video and editing. It took us seven or eight months to put this together.

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7 Rules For Innovations That Produce Dominant Players

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It’s amazing how many proposals I see that are “me too” with only slight or abstract differentiation from other social media sites, ride sharing, or collaboration tools. Users can be advertisers, consumers, sellers, or passengers. Being first is always important. Ride the network effect to more users than anyone.

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