2003 Differentiation Revenue Search 
reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. we had no revenue. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction. Because unlike Google search or other means, it involves people you already trust.
Duct Tape Marketing
APRIL 28, 2011
Expect to pay a premium Implementing a marketing strategy that allows you to carve out a clear point of differentiation and perhaps a narrow market focus, allows you to charge a premium for your products and services. If the business has to depend on you to make it rain, well, how can run it without you? All rights reserved.
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Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 1, 2011
Mike believes the reason AltaVista didn’t become Google ( despite their market leadership position ) was because they didn’t focus on search. Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business.
SVPG
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue. And the engineers, which had been working so hard to provide highly relevant search results, were undersandably very worried that users would be confused and frustrated by ads getting in the way of their search results.
www.readwriteweb.com
OCTOBER 18, 2010
These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. This is her core market.
www.readwriteweb.com
OCTOBER 18, 2010
These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. This is her core market.
abovethecrowd.com
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0
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