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Entries from July 2008

Kontera

July 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Kontera offers in-text advertizing
http://www.kontera.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-text_advertising

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Tags: advertising · in-text advertising

Vibrant Media

July 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Vibrant media claim to be “the in-text advertising leaders”
http://www.vibrantmedia.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-text_advertising

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Tags: advertising · in-text advertising

MacRumors

July 20th, 2008 · No Comments

According to the New York Times, MacRumors is the second most valuable blog in the world “behind Gawker Media and ahead of The Huffington Post, PerezHilton.com, and TechCrunch”
Monthly visitors (as of July 2008): 4.4 million
Monthly hits (as of July 2008): 40 million
Here’s a great post from his personal blog, NormalKid.com:
“The secret to success on the [...]

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Tags: ultra light success stories

Implode-O-Meter

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments


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Digg

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments


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Truemors

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Truemors is a high-profile startup by Guy Kawasaki (former Apple fellow and prominent silicon valley tech personality)
http://truemors.com/
Launched for $12,107.09
Approximately 150,000 unique viewers monthly
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/truemors
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/06/by_the_numbers_.html
VentureBeat says Truemors was sold to NowPublic in July 2008 for an undisclosed sum.

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TechCrunch Pitch!

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments

TechCrunch held a startup pitch competition in London last week.  They feel that entrepreneurs in Europe are not as familiar with the process of the ‘elevator pitch’ as their colleagues in the US and decided to sponsor this event to raise awareness.  They have plenty of good advice for entrepreneurs everywhere about the art of [...]

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Tags: the elevator pitch