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Disrupting Google

Start Up Blog

The market is likely to bifurcate into two segments: Search (Traditional web links) and Creation (Generative AI). Think about it – if we shift our search habits to ask questions and getting an actual answer, rather than a page of links and options – the pay per click model could die alongside it.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Is it pay-to-play? Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed? Discount support? Free-trials? Often this ties to marketing support. In other words, you want to offer a discount to a given group to provide incentive. Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? Do you have a payment gateway?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Is it pay-to-play? Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed? Discount support? Free-trials? Often this ties to marketing support. In other words, you want to offer a discount to a given group to provide incentive. Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? Do you have a payment gateway?

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Why Foxtel is Doomed

Start Up Blog

The world is moving quickly from a pay to play – subscription model, to a ‘free and on demand’ model. The real competition of Foxtel isn’t Free to Air TV, it’s the alternative web enabled screens in the home; laptops, desk tops, ipads, kindles and connected TV’s.

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How to monetize

Start Up Blog

I’ve never been a fan of the so called ‘Free’ business mode l, and often a bigger fan of the so called ‘pay to play’ business model. While catching up with Mick Liubinskas of Pollenizer fame I heard a much better way to describe what all business models on the web should do. First: Create Value.

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Founder Interview: Felix Shipkevich and the Disruption in LegalTech

The Startup Magazine

Consumers rely on search engines and pay-to-play rating sites to find legal counsel. This means our challenge has been building out mobile and web platforms, which have to work in sync. (Share with us what problem you’re solving). A high-quality user experience is our number-one priority.

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Thoughts on Facebook Slingshot

Eric Friedman

Slingshot makes you “pay-to-play” by requiring you to “sling” (slingshot?) As startups are constantly measured by either sales or engagement, this is a metric that will make Slingshot look to upend the rules of engagement of web audiences. Forced participation. something I have not seen successfully done before.