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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

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Chris Tragos: Jetpack is an ad platform, which I would describe as the most beautiful, best engaging, and most performant ad product for desktop, mobile, and tablet. Our business is helping those guys make more money, through our better ad product. We are primarily focused on publishers. They wanted something custom, to close the deal.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. This team is talented.

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Interview with Sean Broihier, Fine Art America

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Fine Art America handles all of the details of fulfilling sales for images. Once you get that profile page, you can upload your beautiful images to our site. You hit submit, and your images are instantly available for sale as prints on our website. had their first sales, which made us profitable. things of that nature.

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How A Pivot Turned Vantage Media Into A $100M Plus Business

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We started looking to see if we could use technology disrupt the agency business, for companies serving the performance marketing area, the cost-per-sale area. Real time bidding allows advertisers to bid on users in a particular market, who are likely to be purchasing that company''s product. It was a question of build versus buy.

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The Master Checklist of EVERYTHING You Need to Start a Business

Jason Nazar

If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Check Google , Yellow Pages , and local directories to ensure your business name is not taken. Create a sales forecasts and financial projections regularly. Determine a pricing system for your product(s).

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions.

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How to Save MySpace

Jason Nazar

. • Management will have to be willing to forgo millions in revenue in the short term by giving up the coveted advertising on the login page, to rebuild a compelling user experience. Music – enable a dead simple player on band and profile pages that lets users upload their songs and have them purchased for any price they set.