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Yeah that part was very interesting. We all know adsense revenue is a sort of lower end mark of what is achievable, but it's not always obvious what other ad promoters to try. Any good ad networks people recommend?
The best ad network is no ad network, if you have enough aggregate demand to warrant it.
When can we kill the meme that twitter and facebook are not making money or are not profitable?
We know that Twitter makes money off the search deals with Google and Bing, and it's a lot more than $5 million.
It's about $25 Million a year.
On the other hand: I personally feel Twitter's real value to an acquirer like MSFT or GOOG is the data. The rest of it is kind of gravy and it's only there to provide the data (ie- you need people posting things in order to have the search data). In short, GOOG basically got the value they needed out of Twitter for a measly 25 million dollars. Why would they ever acquire them at what's sure to be a number at least 40x that amount?... Except to make sure someone else doesn't hence cutting off their access to the data.
Does this mean that Noah Everett's total investment as of now is $5000, or that at one point in time (possibly before he"rebuilt the site from the ground up to run on a scalable platform") his total investment was $5000?
The past tense on "was" makes it hard to tell which it is; it would be even more interesting of a story if the answer is the former.
All of the financial data is neat, but am I the only one surprised by the line: - Moved to South Carolina because of The Patriot, the warm weather, and the beach The Patriot?! I liked "Braveheart goes to America" as much as the next guy, but I'm not sure I'd up and move to SC because of it. An answer that bizarre deserves a followup.
The guy turned down a minimum of $10,000,000. Is he stupid? (I should add, I would take that deal, because if twitter add in any kind of image service or some other service gets popular...)
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Ok, but SF and NY are world capitals, tech/biz hubs. Skateboarding was part of the cultural zeitgeist for decades. The Patriot was a big budget "B" movie that featured the carnage of a bunch of innocents. I actually like the movie as a guilty pleasure. To put it another way, I wouldn't move to Minnesota because of Wayne's World.
Wayne's World was somewhere in Illinois. I would totally move to Minnesota if it was really like Purple Rain. (It's not - it's more like Mall Rats)
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The best ad network is no ad network, if you have enough aggregate demand to warrant it.
eg Employing your own ad sales staff to manage campaigns, and thus cut out the 30% or so that ad networks take?