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Not All Traffic Is Created Equal

www.pakman.com

At that scale, you can reach billions of dollars in revenue. But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. General news carries the lowest CPCs whereas specific verticals like healthcare and finance command higher CPCs.

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. Having a digital strategy is flawed by definition. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. Pointless.

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. Having a digital strategy is flawed by definition. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. Pointless.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

In fact, we can expect constant re-definitions of what we thought was right as a new maxim in the coming years. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. Cities are now becoming vertical again. Let’s take on line retailing as an example.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

So let’s turn our attention from what may happen in the future to what is definitely happening in the present. What is the right revenue model? But make no mistake, disruptive innovation has happened, and the established supply chains are going to change accordingly. In other words, what is the minimum viable product ?

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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. Post-Mortem Title : Why Wesabe Lost to Mint.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Respondents deemed between 12%-16% of companies generating revenues to be essentially “worthless” and deemed 20%-26% of their pre-revenue investments to be “worthless.” link] Kameko Oliver I definitely feel the decline in enthusiastic investing as of late. And investors aren’t necessarily keen on their prospects. Translation?