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Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 16, 2022
MySpace, for example, boomed after launch for five years without a revenue model. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Build a business plan for profitability in your lifetime. Yet it took almost six years to become profitable, with revenue only from advertising.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 17, 2019
MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Build a business plan for profitability in your lifetime. Yet it took almost six years to become profitable, with revenue only from advertising.
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Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 13, 2013
Myspace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. When their deep pockets went empty, Google stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Build a business plan for profitability in your lifetime. Yet it took almost six years to become profitable, with revenue only from advertising.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 15, 2017
MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Build a business plan for profitability in your lifetime. Yet it took almost six years to become profitable, with revenue only from advertising.
ReadWriteStart
MAY 30, 2011
However, I do think there is one key lesson entrepreneurs should look at - we are moving into a new "default business model" for consumer software that many of the fastest growing startups are applying to their business. eBay certainly has enabled purchases and built a very large business doing this.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 18, 2011
Twitter, for example, doesn’t have a real revenue model today, and they are growing, but I’m not sure who can ever sell 140 character tweets. Don’t count on finding investors for that model on your new startup. Build a business plan for profitability in your lifetime. Twitter has no model.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 21, 2010
Twitter, for example, has no revenue model today, and they are growing, but I’m not sure who can ever sell 140 character tweets. It’s hard to find investors for that model today. Build a business plan for profitability in your lifetime. It actually is still only marginally profitable, with revenue only from advertising.
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