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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Make Money: Majority of Kayak’s revenue actually comes from advertising on their site (55%), not lead generation or referral fees to travel suppliers as you might think (more on this below). Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008).

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The Evolution Of The Podcast

Duct Tape Marketing

Todd is the CEO of Blubrry Podcasting – a podcast media company that represents 105,000 Audio and Video podcasters in which his company provides advertising opportunities, media distribution/hosting, podcast media statistics, and other services. He is a podcast advertising specialist, and he founded the Tech Podcast Network in 2004.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Does advertising work in the social networking world? In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

There’s a formula in advertising where cool companies have animals and colors, or some particularly majestic phrase that represents opportunity and creativity. Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. Geiger, Twelve31 Media, LLC ! #3- 3- My name and the work we do.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. And there’s this other thing called “gross margin,” which shows the quality of your revenue. How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make?

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #8: Bootstrap or VC?

Austin Startup

Although bootstrapping is still an approach in Austin, a lot has changed since I wrote my original challenge to the Bootstrap Austin group back in 2005. Groups list on March 15, 2005. I sold $5,000 of banner advertising within one week of launching the site. Below is a post I wrote on their Yahoo! The second was MBA ZoNe.

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Did Google Just Create the Click to Schedule Ad Unit :: Small.

Duct Tape Marketing

For many industries this could be a game changing kind of social action and another big revenue generator for Google. However, think about the implications of Google creating a “Click to Schedule&# function for AdWords units, Places Pages, and Review Pages like those in HotPot. Note: There have been some updates since I published th.