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Digital Advertising Is Broken: Three Alternatives For Businesses Looking To Monetize Their Website

YoungUpstarts

Websites, they claim, need advertising revenue to survive. More than being vehicles of marketing and revenue, this means that resource-hogging advertisement networks are often vehicles for malware. Each time a visitor clicks on one of those links, the referring site earns a bit of revenue.”. by Max Emelianov, CEO of HostForWeb.

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Can Document Management Restore Consumers’ Trust In Enterprises?

YoungUpstarts

Andrew McGill , recently featured in The Atlantic , built a fake web toaster just to see how long it took to get hacked: Compromised within the very hour it came into existence, McGill’s findings lent further credibility to consumer sentiment: They don’t trust businesses with their information. Founded in 2001, eFileCabinet, Inc.

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. It was originally started as a college dorm project, where many of the best products on the web seem to hatch. Angel Investor Drupal founder PHP Revenue Growth SaaS Scalability startup startup CEO venture Cash Flow CEOing leadership scalability tom nora venture capital'

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

The 10 year bull market where every company’s revenue chart is up and to the right is over. Look at 2001 and 2008’s Lehman collapse and Sequoia RIP Good Times deck for lessons learned. When we asked how they find new technology, their answer was clear; research on the web, word of mouth, and their teams, i.e. what are devs using.

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The CEO’s CEO

Ben's Blog

When Alfred presented the acquisition to BEA’s board of directors, one prominent board member said: “if you think that this company is going to pay $150M for a company with $150K in revenue, you are out of your f&%!$n’ In recognition of his phenomenal vision and execution, BEA named Alfred its new Chief Executive Officer in October 2001.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry. and profits!

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. There was now a public market for companies with no revenue, no profit and big claims.