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2011 Consumer Internet Predictions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The online video networks are doing terrific business, and even Yahoo is benefiting from increased brand spend, seeing revenue growth for the first time in a while. Real time web usage outpaces business models. We got everything from price comparison engines to aggregated user reviews to one-click checkout.

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BizMe2 is Looking to Disrupt Conferences with Turnkey Solution (Interview)

VC Cafe

PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. All the peripheral services are profitable, but there was no place that aggregated everything under one roof. what’s BizMe2′s business model?). we today aggregate 30,000 conferences on the site. It was hard.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list! Michael Kassing.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO. We had the wrong business model.

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Stuck in the middle with you (an uncut rant)

VC Cafe

Aggregated, that’s a lot of money. based in emerging markets: Russia, China, India. There’s a few proven business models on the net – don’t just rely on advertising because by definition, if you don’t have a massive audience to begin with, you’re revenues are bound to be LOW.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. Thus had to spend hard cash building a half way completed demo outsourced to India. link] SEO India Wonderful!! This is the blog post I needed to read.