Funding PPC Sites Startup 
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. This is a tough business. Face reality.
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.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 10, 2015
One of the most popular and least successful models I see in new business plans for startups is the so-called Facebook model, providing free services to users while collecting revenue from ads to offset costs and grow the business. This model, called pay per click (PPC), is the one most commonly offered to entrepreneurs.
socalTECH
MARCH 20, 2009
Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. We talked with Dan to learn more about Scour, how it started, what he's hoping to do with it, plus learn more about the firm's hiring plans. Those points add up to a Visa gift card. What is Scour? People are so used to the Google mold.
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). So we ended up with “real-time streams&# in Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blip.FM, etc. Image courtesy of Bernhardt Haussner. Then came blogs.
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