A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

All you’ve proven is that you can make $200 a month in revenue off of some basic websites. It’s also the ability to create an API of properties. I think there’s no way any property manager has ever told you, “You know what I really want is an API.” I mean, that wasn’t necessarily the.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2019

For instance, a basic app (with no API functionality, back-end database, or social media integration) costs from $2,000-$10,000. Once the app is available on app stores and advertised online, more people than your regular customers will find out about your services or products, leading to increased sales. How often they use the app.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Israeli startup FootTraffic offers advertisers a performance marketing platform for location-based offers. In other words, a way to reach a bunch of location based apps at scale via API and paying only for those that convert. Today, advertisers need to target each app separately to promote their location-based deals.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

That's hundred grand annual revenue. And that became about, and now is about 40% of HubSpot's revenue. I always stayed there until that team was counter million in annualized revenue, which was around 2016. I was 15th employee, I remember the hundred person party, the hundred customer party. Social media. Yeah, CRM data.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Retargeting Facebook to increase revenue. Regardless of how these advertisements came in, you still have the data and can use it to effectively redirect audience profiles. You can enable the Facebook API with events such as viewing content, adding to cart, starting checkout, and completing registration to understand audience behavior.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 4, 2011

Advertising CTR rates are abysmal and may be even worse than the metrics show – [link]. Are the junior talent in advertising packaging themselves wrong? agency revenues – [link]. Interesting suggestion that Twitter license its API using freemium model – but thinking too small? – [link].

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers? And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” They’re putting money into web services/business – most without early revenue. End of theory.&#

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Austin Startup

JUNE 8, 2017

Previously, visitors might notice our airport advertising and download the app the airport — but quite often they’d take a cab to their hotel, and the front desk would educate them about RideAustin. Google API, insurance rates, Stripe processing fees, etc. Some things improve with scale in our favor — e.g.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

Love this post about how Meetup.com bet the company and changed its revenue model – [link]. Guerrilla to Genius: 300+ Creative Advertising Campaigns – [link]. Google’s Elemental API Periodic Table – [link]. Un-manage your employees – [link]. Wanna Know What it’s Like Being a VC? – [link].

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. Now your SD content can be turned into True HD. The proposed resolution upgrade is fully automatic, fast, and hassle-free.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 18, 2016

What if Dropbox is just an awesome file-sharing and backup service but not a universal key/value storage API? What if Facebook can make $20b/yr in advertising, but since the teens and social media elite have left, it will never make $200b/yr? Nevermind that Microsoft created more cash profit in 2015 than Facebook made in revenue.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

In January 2006, Google acquired advertising company dMarc Broadcasting for $102 million. The company helped Google improve its mobile advertising solutions. In January 2006, Google acquired advertising company dMarc Broadcasting for $102 million. The company helped Google improve its mobile advertising solutions.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

This might include things like: Website Social media banners and content Newsletters Digital and traditional media advertising Naming rights of a building Event sponsorship Speaking opportunities Exhibitor opportunities Access to influencers. If all the pages got sponsored I’d stand to make $60,000.”. This will demonstrate brand awareness.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2018

You can go with the base plan for starters and choose to upgrade in the later stages for additional features such as full API access and multiple monetization options. Open APIs for extension and further developments. Pay Per View model of Revenue generation. Open APIs architecture allows third-party integration effortlessly.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The site is run by Mercy Corps , which intends to help “small businesses grow faster, generate more revenue, and employ more people.&# Twitter is more about advertising these days instead of about connecting. 5 Innovative Uses of an API [Mashable. More than 1,000 matches have been made to date.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 13, 2022

You’d need a basic developer platform and some APIs that to the best of my knowledge don’t publicly exist yet. In return, Substack should take a percentage of the revenue produced by that app (from the app provider side, not the author’s cut, even though yes, I realize that it’s kinda semantics if you’re talking about one pool).

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Global smartphone revenue is about $420B.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

At the scale of Facebook, you could have your users share almost anything and still be able to build a large business, purely by loading the site up with lots of advertising that is (at very least) rudimentary targeted. At that scale, you can reach billions of dollars in revenue. But they do $50B in revenue. Chris McCoy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2010

Here’s what Costolo wrote in his post: As our primary concern is the long-term health and value of the network, we have and will continue to forgo near-term revenue opportunities in the service of carefully metering the impact of Promoted Tweets on the user experience. That’s it. I am worried about Twitter’s credibility.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. To that end, companies will offer enterprise-ready software that comes with additional features, services and support.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

TokyoYuki Question: What about giving an added incentive to potential developers, in exchange for part of up-front fees, a percentage of the revenue generated from the app/program? View More » Business The 12 Days of Holiday Revenue Maximi. That's my old keyboard (in the post image)! Saitek Executive.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

80-90% software products vs. 40-50% advertising products) and company maturity (e.g., If the customer is a recurring customer, then they are more valuable and a lower quota might be tolerated, although a separate group of account reps are often accountable and paid commissions for the renewal revenue. to, finally, $2M in annual quota.

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Mobile commerce revenues may still pale in comparison to their ecommerce brothers, but we’re already seeing signs of mobile commerce’s potential. While commercial software houses have the luxury of targeting a specific platform for a revenue-generating commercial app, business developers have to satisfy business requirements.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Like this: Used to be, Twitter let you post anything, even advertisements, even if you didn't identify those tweets as ads. popped up as liaisons between advertisers and popular Twitter-ers. Specifically, an advertiser might be willing to pay $3 to have someone with 10,000 followers tweet about how great their widget is, as in this Ad.ly

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. Advertising. How many have been active in the past 30 days? What is your viral coefficient? If you have a good video pitch, include that too. Don’t focus on press. Celebrities. FriendFeed. Friendster. Google Maps.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 19, 2020

Plugins and API Integrations. Utilizing an SMS plugin or API integration is the best way to scale up an established business process. Among 4,000 consumers surveyed in the USA, 65% reported that a positive experience with a brand is more effective than good advertising. CX and Customer Loyalty.

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Eric Friedman

MARCH 25, 2013

With the Feedburner API deprecated , continued feed troubles (twitter account abandoned!), Back in 2006 I created a Marketing and Advertising blog network (monetized through Feedburner). is just a monetization wave that takes perfectly good non revenue driving services behind the shed and shoots them…

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

You can place up to 20 video participants on a Web page, and open the site to thousands of &# watchers,&# bringing to life an entirely new set of possibilities for media, messaging/communications, social networking, gaming and advertising/marketing businesses, as well as for developers working on their own apps or apps for their companies.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2020

But there are so many ways a person can become aware about a product—they may see a paid advertisement; Google a question and land on a blog post; or come across somebody’s mention in social media. As a SaaS product, it’s crucial for us to monitor the monthly revenue streams (MRR). Pay for it. For a JSON query string, use this one.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2022

I mean, it allowed us to weed out stuff that just totally didn't work, but we really couldn't refine what was bringing us revenue necessarily. So what should you be thinking about in terms of budgeting for advertising and how that translates into communications coming into to your call center?

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

He goes on to add, “Having revenue is even better, though not applicable to every startup … Passion, skill, vision and maturity really matter.&# If you’re lucky enough to score a meeting with Gordon, make the most of it — and don’t forget to talk revenue potential. Just don’t call Feld on the phone.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

we have talked to advertising technology salespeople who hate technology, right? They don't want to talk about APIs and they don't wanna talk about integrations. (23:46): The other thing is setting up the infrastructure around your team to allow them to do that. So we talked about intentional ignorance before, you know mm-hmm. ,

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 3, 2019

I’d imagine you’re already doing this and it will only increase to the chagrin of social media forums which harvest attention for revenue. In 2019 I expect traffic declines in public social media and actual social conversations to be in back channels and in person.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

We need to have a close look at the worlds two biggest social media networks of Twitter and Facebook – they run open API’s for each other to assist their customers and suppliers switch and share between each other. The revolution is about access and the democratization of the factors of production.

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