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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). Sales cycles matter though. This is obvious. Marketing first. Product second.

Founder 48
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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). Sales cycles matter though. This is obvious. Marketing first. Product second.

Founder 48