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Every Online User Platform Needs Revenue To Survive

Startup Professionals Musings

A question that I still hear debated often is whether a new online platform startup growth strategy should focus on user count or profits. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. In the long run, everyone wants both profitability and user growth, but the question is which comes first.

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VIZIO Adds Hulu Plus, BLOCKBUSTER On Demand

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Irvine-based VIZIO , which makes HDTV products, said today that it has added Hulu Plus , the premium subscription service of Los Angeles-based Hulu, as well as BLOCKBUSTER On Demand, to its connected television line. a month; BLOCKBUSTER On Demand offers up rentals from $2.99 Business details between the firm were not announced.

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The First Day of the Etsy Boycott: Sellers Are Striking All Week

Tech.Co

In February, ecommerce platform Etsy revealed that a record fourth quarter had earned them $717.1 Starting today, they're going on strike for a week in protest of the price change, which they say is just the latest in a series of decisions that have squeezed the small-business sellers who depend on the Etsy platform to survive.

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Interview with Jason Lehmbeck, Datapop

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The company's founders are previously from Overture and Yahoo! We are ex-Overture and Yahoo! What our technology platform does, is determines what about a marketer's offers that will matter to the consumer. We were at Overture Services here in Pasadena, and ultimately worked at Yahoo. Search Marketing.

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Burn This Number After Calling: Greg Cohn on Burner

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Greg Cohn: I spent the last five years at Yahoo, where I was leading strategy and business development on innovation efforts, mostly related to social and developer problems. I was also very involved in the strategy on Yahoo's Brickhouse incubation effort. Were you here in LA with Yahoo? What's next big thing for you?

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Interview: Jason Lehmbeck, Co-Founder and CEO of DataPop

InfoChachkie

Messenger : Jason Lehmbeck , Co-Founder and CEO of DataPop , former VP of Emerging Ad Products at Overture Services and Yahoo! The Core team had worked together at Yahoo! We tried to solve their problems while we were at Yahoo!, We lived together for seven years while at Yahoo! It was a typical storyline. ows are lower.

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Interview with Wes Nichols, MarketShare

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Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments.