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Is the bar lower for a tech IPO?

BeyondVC

During the years ended March 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, we achieved positive operating cash flows of $0.3 million for 2004, $1.9 By the way, one other interesting point about Salary.com is that is an on-demand application play with some web-based advertising thrown into the mix. million, $0.9 million and $1.8 million for 2005, $3.0

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

Both Sides of the Table

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. He wanted Quigo to be in the business of letting advertisers buy directly into the system.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Fortunately, on the side, the company had built up TripAdvisor.com as a demo site to show the prospective clients what a vertical search engine could do. When he saw TripAdvisor.com start to pick up traffic, he decided to pursue an online advertising based business model with banner ads.

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The future of television advertising

BeyondVC

Fred Wilson and John Battelle have some interesting posts on the future of television and advertising. Fred and John both seem to believe that the concept of paid search will eventually work its way into television advertising. I encourage you to try the demo to customize a few ads on your own. Recently, Businss 2.0

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

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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Bitesize Friday: Compass EOS, Soho OS, Supersonicads, Legolas Media and More

VC Cafe

The company is currently engaging with buyers and sellers in the marketplace, focused on revolutionizing the usage of data for performance based advertising. See the Soho OS video demo below. Legolas Media – Currently in stealth mode, The Legolas Media team is focused on innovating digital display media. Miscellaneous.

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After Facebook's IPO flub, value of tech startups falls back to earth

www.theverge.com

The hard part right now is keeping these CEOs in their seats," said Roger Ehrenberg, head of IA Ventures, chatting after the TechStars Demo Day at Webster Hall on the afternoon before the big F.ounders dinner. Check out this article from CNN back in August 2004 and the GOOG IPO troubles. Notice the handwringing, the failure.

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