17. Responses
Raise the price
Widen the area
(or become non-geographic)
Capitalize and flip
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18. Site Startup Tech at Phase 2 Phase 2 Exit/
Capital launch tech financing Uniques
Blogher >$10k Movable Drupal NBCi, Acquisition
Type Venrock 8M
$5M
Television >$10k BBforum, MT, Bootstrap, Acquired
Without Plone Prospero Advertisers by Bravo
Pity 1M
TechCrunch >10k Wordpress WPMU Bootstrap, ?
ads, 1.8
conferences
Huffington ~300k Custom MT, $5M VC Acquisition
Post SixApart Rails investment 2.5
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19. Most news organizations are
about taking something free and
making it worth money.
Most internet companies are
about taking something that
costs money and making it free.
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20. The web rewards narrow
comprehensiveness
“everything about something”
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21. “Good tests kill flawed theories;
we remain alive to guess
again.”
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22. Thanks!
Lisa Williams
lisa@placeblogger.com
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