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Revenue = Product Market Fit

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This is especially true for those with a media / ad based business model (e.g. The early goal isn’t to maximize near term revenue… it’ll take time to fully understand your market and establish P-M fit, let alone optimizing the sales & marketing engine.

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The Future of Internet & Cars

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With chips running large parts of cars came basic diagnostic tools like the “check engine” light to OBD ports. Cars as a Media Platform – Again I think infotainment is only the tip of the spear but cars have been a media platform for many decades, since the advent of AM radios.

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The End of ?Internet? Companies ? AGILEVC

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In the wake of the undue frenzy leading up to and now ex post recriminations about Facebook’s IPO, the mainstream media and normal folks keep wondering if the non-existent “bubble” for internet companies has now popped. The internet has already had meaningful impact on industries ranging from commerce to media to software.

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Alibaba S-1: How Well Do They Monetize?

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4) It’s Unclear if Alibaba Looks Like an Media Company or a Marketplace – To be clear, Alibaba’s sites are obviously marketplaces. So there’s reasonable prospects Alibaba’s retail commerce engine will continue to grow at a fairly rapid clip for awhile. So Alibaba captured only 2.6

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