Software By Rob

JULY 13, 2010

Background The idea for ChangeThis came from Seth Godin, and the site was built by a group of talented developers in 2004. If you want to read the manifesto and don’t want to bother with the rest of this post, simply go here and click “Yes, please write this manifesto.&# You don’t even need to register.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. Foursquare. -A Competitors: Gowalla.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2015

Google continues to evolve and refine its search algorithms over time, leading more businesses to turn to paid advertising models to get the exposure they seek in the multi-channel, multi-device world. You have to consider mobile advertising, social media, content marketing, pay-per-click, and let’s not forget organic SEO. The result?

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. How They Make Money : Facebook’s primary revenue stream is of course selling advertising on Facebook.com, which in total accounts for 85% of revenue. Facebook, Inc. Filing Date : February 1, 2012. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA. That’s the capex (e.g.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 3, 2011

Lead generation in this content driven social model is still a metered blend of advertising, public relations and referrals, but social is the mechanism driving the discovery and the conversation surrounding this powerful form of lead acquisition. The key to the effectiveness of this approach resides in building the organic side first.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Back in the days of straight advertising, it was important to have a name that explained what your company specialised in so the audience would be drawn to it. When the decision was made to rebrand during the acquisition, I called on my team to determine what our new identity was going to be going forward. Photo Credit: Dave Davies.

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Since its launch in 2004, Facebook was the clear winner of social networking with 3.6 97% of FB / Meta’s revenue comes from advertising. Their success in advertising is in no small part due to the information they have gathered on their users. Both in terms of revenue and profit. Zuckerberg really needs this to work.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His latest book, “ Flip the Funnel: How to use existing customers to gain new ones ,” presents a powerful hypothesis that retention can become the new acquisition through the strategic incorporation and elevation of customer service, customer experience and customer initiated word-of-mouth, content creation and incentive-based referrals.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

It’s almost like the clock is moving backwards to 2004/2005 when blogs when there was much less noise in the blogosphere, but a smaller audience of commited, early adopters. I’ve been posting more and more recently, and my audience has grown faster than at any point in this blog’s history.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His latest book, “ Flip the Funnel: How to use existing customers to gain new ones ,” presents a powerful hypothesis that retention can become the new acquisition through the strategic incorporation and elevation of customer service, customer experience and customer initiated word-of-mouth, content creation and incentive-based referrals.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer. Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. They had mail, IM, groups, answers, etc.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Buffett, when thinking of low-cost production moats, uses GEICO (another Berkshire Hathaway acquisition) as an example. Until 2004, when the U.S. The primary goal is user acquisition. When geography is the determining factor, efficient scale relies on mergers and acquisitions. Image source ). Customer data.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

When he saw TripAdvisor.com start to pick up traffic, he decided to pursue an online advertising based business model with banner ads. The company agreed to be acquired by Expedia/IAC in 2004 for $210 million in cash, a huge win for all, particularly given their amazing capital efficiency: they had only raised $4 million in venture capital.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In 2004 I began blogging. I began placing advertisements on the website. Would you be interested in advertising on my website?” and I got a handful of advertisers who said yes. If you decide to follow a blog acquisition strategy, you’re not going to write the blog yourself, not very likely.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

I have shared many of these thoughts in earlier posts like " The web-based platform " last October and " Web-based businesses circa 2004." Customer acquisition. Spend $$$, advertising. " Web 1999/2000. Critical Mass. GoToMarket Philosophy. If you build it, they will come. Release early and release often.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Advertising. His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Plenty of advertising systems work well on 0.8%. #4 So if you can’t immediately profit from freeloaders (think gmail and advertising) don’t invite them in at all. #8 While plenty of advertising systems work on 0.8%, this simply requires more traffic than most non-funded products are able to achieve by offering a free plan.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

ClickFacts itself is now based in San Francisco, and continues to work hard to help advertisers and ad-networks manage their risk and security, exactly as it set out to do seven years ago. Chris had been working on creating a better desktop search since early 2004, knowing that no existing solutions were any good. The Next Web.

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www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

Things have really picked up in terms of mergers and acquisitions. Microsoft, Google, and Apple are all hoarding mountains of cash, and Mark Zuckerberg has shown that he isn’t afraid to put his newfound riches to work, with numerous acquisition in the past few months (Instagram, Glancee, and Face.com to name a few).

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allthingsd.com

AUGUST 24, 2012

Still, it is the highest amount increase since Fenwick began compiling the numbers in 2004. ATDacquisitions (Acquisitions). Two big-ticket financings upped the Q2 number, which would have been 70 percent if they were removed. Internet/digital media and software was the biggest beneficiary of the rise. allthingsd (All Things Digital).

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