1997 Business Model Distribution HTML 
K9 Ventures
AUGUST 13, 2010
This was when the state of the art was click-to-refresh HTML form-based chats. The hosted offering worked by having users place an “HTML-snippet” on their own website, which would retrieve the Java Applet from our servers and connect back to our servers. Very often what a startup’s business model is going to be is unclear.
aweissman.com
APRIL 14, 2010
All of it made me think back to my youth, the days of AOL, around 1995-1997. Indeed you can still see today he uses the same modified AOL logo he used back then: As a platform, this worked precisely because AOL provided the two key components every platform must deliver to create value: distribution , and monetization. Until it didnt.
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