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Pot of Gold

Originally uploaded by tao_zhyn

“I’ve got lots of users, I’m going to start making lots of money soon!”
I hear a lot of new businesses talk about how much money they will make when they get big through advertising but I’m not sure they realise [...]

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Credits as business modelOriginally uploaded by bigmick
I remember lots of startups in web 1.0 that tried making web credits a business. I saw today that it’s Jib Jab’s way. They give you 50 credits, charge 30 credits per send, so the next one you want to send, you have to fork out [...]

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So I’m exactly double what Google promised me early on with Gmail. 1,000 MB offer and I’ve shot past. But they haven’t even bugged me for money. In fact, they have said that I can triple from now and still be ok. And by then it might be 10 gig.
Nuts?
I’m sure the business guys out [...]

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Fake Social AdsOriginally uploaded by bigmick
Direct-Advertising, where a web page is built just so it gets search click throughs and then has more ads on it, was a highly profitable abomination. It dilutes the value of the Internet and that’s where I work and play so I don’t like it.
Fake social ads are [...]

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