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Are Facebook Investors Playing Russian Roulette?

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They can’t – certainly not based on Facebook’s current revenue opportunities. First , there’s a huge disconnect between Facebook’s user growth and potential revenue per user. That’s very healthy revenue, but significantly below the revenue needed to justify a 100 billion dollar valuation.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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This was especially true as we found some of the best developers to be in Russia and India, therefore splitting the travel. Posted by: Matt | September 10, 2007 9:43 AM Hmm, our current startup (now doing more than 1M/year) was bootstrapped for its first year on just 1500$ (and with that we grew revenue to 25K/month).

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How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k

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Developers are in Argentina, Ukraine and Russia. The app obviously geolocalizes every info and integrates with Facebook and other social networks. Oh, my company has grown a bit too much i guess Reply – Quote Steph says: 21 June, 2010 at 19:56 Hi, I hate to ask, but where is the revenue model? Total cost: $5000.

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Twitter Link Roundup #85 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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Not surprising that more affluent consumers use social networks differently – [link]. Good article on ranking algorithms & inner workings of Yandex (Russia’s Google) – [link]. If accurate, remarkable projections of how much Kindle contributes to Amazon’s revenues/profits – [link].

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

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The two companies have collaborated for a long time, with Facebook using Face.com’s technology to help users tag the faces of friends in pictures they upload on the social network with Face.com’s Photo Tagger service. This is Facebook’s second acquisition in Israel, following the acquisition of Snaptu for $70m in March 2011.

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Stuck in the middle with you (an uncut rant)

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based in emerging markets: Russia, China, India. social networks (facebook.com, myspace.com – Twitter.com is at #34 and growing rapidly). These are mostly search engines, portals and ecommerce platforms (google.com, yahoo.com, bing.com, amazon.com, ebay.com, msn.com, aol.com etc). com, qq.com, sina.com.cn).

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005).

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