Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2011

If challenged, the founder usually cites the Facebook business model (free service to users, revenue from ads), but forgets that Facebook has had several hundred million in funding, and has been profitable only in the last two years. Don’t count on that to fund your startup.

Advertising 90

Advertising CPC Funding Startup 90

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

To make this work, you need heavy traffic on your site -- probably at least a million page views per month -- which most sites never achieve in their lifetimes. While you are doing all this work, of course, you need deep pockets to fund all your efforts, content and growing website hosting fees.

Advertising 99

Advertising PPC CPC Sites 99

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2012

If challenged, the founder usually cites the Facebook business model (free service to users, revenue from ads), but forgets that Facebook has had several hundred million in funding, and has been profitable only in the last couple of years. The most challenging time is your first years, when your site is unknown, and your page-views are low.

CPC 106

CPC PPC Startup Advertising 106

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. We're about to do some marketing, but the hard part really isn't going to be getting people to visit the site, it's to get them to stick. What's the business model behind the site--it looks like this is advertising driven?

PPC 113

PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). People got their knickers in a twist when they saw people like Michael Arrington and Robert Scoble having advertisers and endorsing brands on their sites.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286