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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Are there other founders, business leaders, partners, or administrators? Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? Is it limited to login and Like buttons, or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Is your integration limited to login and “like” buttons or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Affiliate tracking? What have you done so far to validate the concept? Other types of users?

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Monetizing Social Networks: The Four Dominant Business Models and How You Should Implement Them in 2010

venturedig.com

The business models within the social media realm are much different than traditional businesses. In social networking, they’re ever-changing, backed by eye-opening revenue and have very little documentation. The middle man is called an ad network. Allocate about 20% of of your ad space to CPA-based Ad Networks.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Is your integration limited to login and “like” buttons or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Affiliate tracking? What have you done so far to validate the concept? Other types of users?

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

In fact, their affiliate partners dissuaded them from doing so. So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. They were able to “buy&# the affiliate business because they had the Google.com cash cow. This is a CDN (Content Delivery Network).

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[Review] The Social Customer

YoungUpstarts

Rather, the challenge is this – how can we transform fans and followers on social networks into actual money paying customers? While Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have found ways to monetise their platforms, many are still figuring out ways to connect the social web with the corporate wallet.

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Taking Other People’s Money Changes Your Life

Startup Professionals Musings

Remember “ The Social Network ” movie about Facebook? Moral: Before you decide that it’s absolutely necessary to take outside investment, explore all the possible ways you can partner, outsource, affiliate, collaborate, or…heaven forbid, get customers.