Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. it provides complete transparency in how much advertisers are paying, how much Burstly takes and what your revenue is. Enter Burstly. I like that.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

If you start out building automobiles, you won’t likely pivot over to become an online advertising network. 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’

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The opportunity to transact at the point of purchase increases the sheer number of revenue opportunities. The desktop web introduced banner ads that offered “brand advertising” opportunities akin to television.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Fact is, most people advertising their services on Elance are not going to comment/markup their code enough to lend any sense of organization to the next developer who gets it. Therefore that developer will either learn the semantics of the last or simply institute her own. developers-crapping-on-freelance sites: 1.

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