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Billions in Local Ad Dollars Surge to Online — But Just a Trickle to News | Street Fight
Tom Grubisich wrote a great piece on the failure of local news sites to capture the boom in revenue happening in local online. He made a great point on the news market not capturing this local revenue. ”The issue that no one … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, FindnSave, Groupon, MerchantCircle, Newspapers, Silicon Valley
Tagged local, Newspaper, Online newspaper, Patch, Patch Media, venture capitalists
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Building a Shopping Solution
I have been involved in ShopCo Holdings just about two months now as the Chief Executive Officer. I figured it is about time I start sharing a bit about it. ShopCo Holdings is a company backed by 12 large US Media companies … Continue reading
Posted in Deals, FindnSave, GSD, Silicon Valley, Wanderful Media
Tagged A. H. Belo, Ben T Smith IV, business, Find n Save, GSD, investment, Lee Enterprises, local, McClatchy Company, MediaNews Group, Startups, Wanderful Media, web entreprenuer
Crash Dev: Top three reasons NOT to do a local + online startup (and what to do instead)
This piece by Devore is fascinating and correct. Having looked at buying the Judy’s Book asset twice, I think they really were a great team with a solid execution, and it still did not work. The fundamental issues of high cost to acquire customers, high customer churn, low monthly … Continue reading
