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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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it provides complete transparency in how much advertisers are paying, how much Burstly takes and what your revenue is. Optimization – If you’re a mobile application developer you may be monetizing your real estate perfectly now and you may not even think you need advertising. it has built in iPad support from Day 1.

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Why large companies acquire small companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Even if this costs more than 2 years of in-house assembly, it’s still worth it, due to accelerating revenue growth due to up-sales and market-differentiation. Yet mobile advertising revenues were paltry. This acquirer doesn’t care about the financials of the startup. This had to be remedied.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

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You start out with vision, you must adapt and have intellectual honesty once you stare at your data and know where your true sources of differentiation and value are. We weren’t in enough cities to do national advertising campaigns yet we weren’t centralized enough to benefit off of our central marketing traction.

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Who’s lying?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

There are analytics that tell you where traffic originates (imperfectly, especially with the latest in browsers and services intentionally obscuring or blocking data), data about your advertising click-throughs, your own raw web server logs, and broad industry data around traffic trends (e.g. Gerry used to say: “Who’s lying?”

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[Interview] Jim Ewel, Author Of ‘The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing: Proven Practices For More Effective Marketing And Better Business Results’

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One client said it helped them because they hadn’t made long-term commitments to advertising buys, and it was easy to cut back spending when their revenues declined. They used Agile to differentiate themselves and help their clients deal with the radical changes in the business environment.

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

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Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar. He wanted Quigo to be in the business of letting advertisers buy directly into the system.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x. So What is This Underbelly of Which You Speak?

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