Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2024

And then what you mentioned is that Google's more of an advertising business than they are a search business. But they don't want to change if they don't have to because it could end up affecting their advertising revenue. So they're not going to change anything if they can't figure out how to put ads on it full stop.

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SEO Search Generative AI Engineer 70

Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

Why Twitter is A Media Company. CEO Dick Costolo famously said that Twitter is not a media company about six weeks ago at the AllThingsD conference. To be fair, Costolo said that Twitter isn’t a media company but is “in the media business” To some that may be a distinction without a difference.

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Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

In the wake of the undue frenzy leading up to and now ex post recriminations about Facebook’s IPO, the mainstream media and normal folks keep wondering if the non-existent “bubble” for internet companies has now popped. Turns out commerce and advertising are kinda different businesses actually. Silly stuff like this.

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Internet Silicon Valley IPO Seed Stage 182

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

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. The Advertising business is growing slower (69% YoY in 2011) than the whole company and if you dive in to the quarterly growth rates, you can see that it’s fairly lumpy.

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IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

The names of these once great, now defunct firms may not be terribly familiar today but here are just a few examples: American Research & Development [Boston] –> Founded by George Doriot and depending how you count it, either the first or second formal VC firm in the US. Read More ».

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Sign in All Social Media Tech & Gadgets Business & Marketing Video Mobile Dev & Design Media Social Good Startups Classifieds Mashable Infographics Prev Next How Are People Using Twitter? Not surprisingly, San Francisco was the top startup region, with New York City in second place and Boston in third.

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Agile VC

MARCH 30, 2012

Several years ago I wrote a post about the three business models of the consumer web : commerce, advertising, and user-paid premium services. At the end of the day, the actionable insights that come from various forms of data are capitalized through existing business models like commerce, advertising, and to a lesser extent premium services.

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