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How to Value the Advertising-Supported Internet @HarvardBiz

"Older Internet users may remember the battles over the commercialization of the web in the early 1990s, when the first Mosaic browser was introduced. Back then, pioneering adopters passionately condemned the first web advertisers and tried to bring down their sites with "flaming" attacks. The fight was lost as consumers voted for free information supported by advertising over subscription services. Ironically, online advertising and the commercialization of the web achieved important goals of the resisters: to preserve the web as a medium for free publishing and communications...."
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Source: HarvardBiz

Bootstrapping stories: What it takes to do an entire startup @seattle20

"This week we are running several guest posts by people who are boostrapping (or did bootstrap) their businesses. Today’s post is by Steve Murch. Read previous posts Vivek Bhaskaran and  Hillel Cooperman]  BigOven.com , the social network about food, started out as a hobby. I love to cook. I wanted a better way to organize and plan our own family meals, and thought there was a pretty big opportunity emerging at the intersection of social networking and the food/cooking/nutrition category.  After growing a startup (VacationSpot.com) and selling it to Expedia.com in 2000, by 2002 I wanted to take a little break from work.  But I quickly found that I was writing little programs for mobile devices here and there, and I wanted a larger project as a way to force myself to stay current on technology..."
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Source: Seattle 2.0 Blog