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Scaling from $5 to $50 million is not the toughest part of a new venture - it's getting your users to pay you anything at all. The biggest gap in any venture is that between a service that is free and one that costs a penny.

Strategies to overcome obstacles to building a successful marketplace business: one which connects buyers and sellers in some niche.

An excellent and intriguing backgrounder on how Demand Media makes money from algorithmic determination of demand and low-cost content production.

The ability to deliver a persuasive elevator pitch and follow it up with a substantive presentation is the difference between a funded entrepreneur and those having coffee complaining that they’re out of cash. It’s a litmus test of how you will behave in front of customers, employees and investors.

Just because the thing you eventually want to sell isn’t ready, it doesn’t mean what you do have, right now, isn’t marketable.

Apple has every right to push around its customers and media “partners” in pursuit of its business goals. What should bother us is the media companies’ willingness to cede so much of their authority to a company that has demonstrated its willingness to abuse it.

An inspiring and believable account of how hyper-local news became profitable for one Texas company.

The iPad is Steve Jobs' final victory over the company's co-founder Steve Wozniak. Centralized power and control in the pursuit of perfection completely won out over distributed tinkering and decentralized power.

CPU of choice for mobile devices. Low licensing fee. Fungibility of processors between manufacturers. Closing performance gap with x86.

Normals make up far more than 99% of Internet users. They also stick around a lot longer and are far more loyal than early adopters.