Apple makes most of their (enormous piles of) money from hardware, yet the only options on here are Apple (apps) and Apple (iTunes). Bizarre.
Well, I suppose there's not much mystery about it so it wasn't really necessary to put it in the list.
How do they make money?
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Re: How do they make money?
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Groupon isn't going to give its (recent) investors a return on what they put in, but they've always been profitable ; their overheads are tiny, and they take 50% of the revenue from each deal for themselves. I have no idea how Grooveshark ever made or plans to make any money (heck, when I worked at last.fm we were celebrating our most successful year ever in which we'd only lost $1m. 5/6 of our income had come from a…
I didn't know Kickstarter was a non-profit organization, I didn't find it on their website, would you mind pointing it to me? For Groupon, for me a profit is making more money than you spend and as you said they keep 50% of each deal but then they have to spend money to pay everything and also need a lot of advertisement. Therefore afaik they have no actual profit, which would mean returning money to the investors.
I'd like to know too about Kickstarter, it doesn't seem to appear on their website. Wouldn't they want to publicize it more if it was the case?
Re: How do they make money?
#23Correct me if I'm wrong. Kickstarter gets 5% of each successfully funded project. So if we open a Kickstarter stat page (http://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats) what will we see there?
319M of successful dollars. 5% of this sum is about $16M.
Kickstarter was founded in 2009 and has got more than $16M in expenses for 3 years? Really?
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Yes, I too was blocked from further exploring by this bug. Why so much clicking? Wouldn't it be much better if the box with information simply appeared when mouse hovers over the circle?
I usually do not like mouse hover to popup but at least they should have made the background clickable to hide the popup.
Or at least have escape get back to the main screen.
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#25Some of the profitability data is factually wrong. I work at Prezi, and Prezi is profitable, always has been.
Re: How do they make money?
#26So, how does seerinteractive make money?
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#27The link to the Amazon Prime source is wrong. Now it goes to: http://googleadsenserevenue.org/google-adsense-revenue/how-d...
the problem with amazon is that even though it is not a profitable component, it costs more in shopping on average than what the program costs, but they have found that the prime users purchase more on the program
There are also secondary benefits of Prime, they are shifting packages from ground residential, which is traditionally a low-margin business to 2nd-day air. I'd expect the increased leverage over their shippers when renegotiating rates is significant.
Re: How do they make money?
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't know Kickstarter was a non-profit organization, I didn't find it on their website, would you mind pointing it to me? For Groupon, for me a profit is making more money than you spend and as you said they keep 50% of each deal but then they have to spend money to pay everything and also need a lot of advertisement. Therefore afaik they have no actual profit, which would mean returning money to the investors.
I'd like to know too about Kickstarter, it doesn't seem to appear on their website. Wouldn't they want to publicize it more if it was the case?
Unless it's a rumour someone spread. It would be a smart move. Makes you look better and gain more traction.
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#29So, how does seerinteractive make money?
SEO, SEM, & Analytics Insights according to their web-page.
This is a decent-looking demo for helping snag possible clients, clients like shiny.
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#30For github, I would add advertising as a source of revenue. From looking at the september data, github jobs seems to add around $1.2m per year to the bottom line.