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Re:Slide raises $50M at $500M Valuation by eVizitei on Friday January 18, 2008 @05:41PM (#100557)
I'm not sure. You don't buy facebook apps, you just use them if someone else invite you to. Is it possible that the advertising revenue is deep enough to support a 50+ employee company?
Re:Slide raises $50M at $500M Valuation by sethjohn on Friday January 18, 2008 @05:57PM (#100573)
Yes, in fact web advertising has proved to be deep enough to support all of Google!

Of course there is a limit to the total amount of advertising dollars available and many half-good companies may not be good enough to support themselves with advertising, but there is no question that a good company can do very well on advertising alone.