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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: James Green, CEO of Magnetic (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What size are we talking in revenue terms? James Green: The sweet spot for us is total online sales of $5 million to $100 million. There are a couple of people who are a bit bigger but mostly, they’re in that range. Sramana Mitra: Switching gears, what are the emerging trends in e-commerce
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Joe Speiser, CEO of Little Things (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: You started this in 2000? Joe Speiser: We started the deal sites in early 1999. Sramana Mitra: This was bootstrapped at that point? Joe Speiser: Yes, there were no VCs. These businesses were profitable in the first few months. If we weren’t able to make money in the first few months, we’d move
Unicorn in the Making: Avi Steinlauf, CEO of Edmunds.com (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Does that mean that you can charge higher rates for the leads? Are you even able to take a transaction commission? What does that give you in terms of financial metrics? Avi Steinlauf: All of the above. It allows us to work much more closely with our partners, and depending on the individual
Unicorn in the Making: Avi Steinlauf, CEO of Edmunds.com (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: The Internet business model that you were settling on was CPA lead generation or was it just straight up advertising? Avi Steinlauf: CPA lead generation would be a fair description using Internet lingo. That was just the beginning because we were also being approached during the later part of the ’90s by a number
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Steve Wadsworth, CEO of Tapjoy (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What trends do you see in the industry’s treatment of the users that are not going to be high-monetizing users. I have one observation about the industry in general. I’m not talking about just mobile. The Internet is really saddled with an incredibly high number of free riders. Steve Wadsworth: I think that’s
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Steve Wadsworth, CEO of Tapjoy (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: With that overview, can you double-click down on some of the trends in each of those vectors? Let’s take acquisitions. What are the key trends in mobile app customer acquisition right now? Steve Wadsworth: In the early days, the focus of the publishers was to just acquire as many users as they could. They
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Steve Wadsworth, CEO of Tapjoy (Part 1)
Tapjoy is a mobile platform that helps monetize freemium apps. This discussion is an excellent overview of the dynamics of app monetization in the mobile world. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with some context. Tell us who you are. Give us a bit of background and introduce us to Tapjoy. Steve Wadsworth: I’m the President and
Trying to Turn Carriers and Retailers Into Google: Azzimov CEO Benoît l’Archevêque (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: What you have today is a product and a business model that is just starting to come into the market? This business model is not generating $5 million in revenue? Benoît l’Archevêque: If you only consider Azzimov, no. But if you consider the whole entity, yes. Sramana Mitra: You’re basically trying to turn
