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Re:When good ideas make bad business by utopian3 on Friday January 03, 2020 @01:19PM (#21948692)
Ya, I'm surprised it's not just a static landing page for consumers with ads. At .50 cents per user, that's only 80k users required to break even (ignoring the time variable there)
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Re:When good ideas make bad business by MFLoon on Friday January 03, 2020 @01:46PM (#21948973)
I'm no adtech expert, but I'm pretty sure he would not be getting .50 cents per user per year - that's what WebMD, one of the top 1000 most trafficked web sites in the world makes, so I assume it can sell it's ad space at a much higher price than a greenfield site with no traffic would.
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Re:When good ideas make bad business by utopian3 on Friday January 03, 2020 @03:49PM (#21950189)
Fair point. I just searched for a bit, but can't seem to find a good "average revenue per user" for ad-based SaaS products. Anyone know?
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Re:When good ideas make bad business by moneywoes on Saturday January 04, 2020 @12:57PM (#21956271)
Any luck? I'm very curious
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Re:When good ideas make bad business by utopian3 on Saturday January 04, 2020 @07:12PM (#21958646)
Nope, I must not be searching for the right keyword or acronym.
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