December 2010
2 posts
Continuations: Google Buying Groupon is a Flawed... →
continuations:
On one hand I can understand Google’s aggressive interest in Groupon. Groupon appears to be one of the few companies that has cracked the code on making money from local businesses. Groupon’s revenues are rumored to be around $50 million per month, which is impressive. But there are at least…
My response to this post is here:
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Google buying Groupon is not a flawed strategy.
Google buying Groupon is not a flawed strategy. This post is pretty much a response to this one by USV Albert Wenger’s “Google Buying Groupon is a Flawed Strategy.” tl;dr — Two problems Albert discusses: Low $/employee, No Barrier to Entry, I present counters to those arguments. However, I also state Albert ignores the tremendous strategic “social,” and...
AVC.com on Vevo.com's launch
I found this fascinating quote today:
It’s probably that Vevo is not completely rolled out yet but it would seem to me that for it to be successful, the Vevo videos will have to show up in YouTube and Google search results. And they don’t right now.avc.com.
It is absolutely true that for many, YouTube is their streaming music service. There is so much music on YouTube. You can get a...
Hello world
Hello world!
This is my first post on my new tumblr.com blog.
I hope to write my thoughts on the economics of consumer-oriented content, as well as broader views on business-oriented internet start-ups and biomedical ventures.
Jon Lenley Woodard