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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

Company 2 might represent an “ad mediation company” where the company gets paid by ad networks for running ads on publisher websites and the company in turn must pay the publisher 85% of the revenue it collects. They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 An ad network (the middleman) might sell $500,000 in ads.

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Should Startups Care About Profitability?

Both Sides of the Table

Company 2 might represent an “ad mediation company” where the company gets paid by ad networks for running ads on publisher websites and the company in turn must pay the publisher 85% of the revenue it collects. They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 million to fund operations in their first year of operations.