Advertising Internet Operations Seed Money 
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 27, 2011
Internet scale. Operating Costs. The first company represents a normal software company that sells its products directly (either via sales staff or directly off of the internet). They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 million to fund operations in their first year of operations.
Up and Running
APRIL 18, 2014
And we did, until the internet came on the scene a couple of years later and left us holding our floppy disks in our hands. Voices.com , an online marketplace that matches voice actors with advertising agencies and TV and radio stations, began in 2004 as an idea scribbled down on a napkin by newlyweds David and Stephanie Ciccarelli.
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Seeing Both Sides
MARCH 2, 2011
Dennis wrote a great post at the time of the financing that showed just how product obsessed he was, even after taking the seed money. 2) What was the magic of the foursquare system that drove rapid adoption that so many other consumer Internet companies fail to achieve? Advertising isn't cool."). Monetization.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. As if to emphasize the point, Google never did any advertising.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I need money for the servers. Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product.
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