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Archive for April, 2010

Online Education & The DegreeAmerica Network

Posted in Uncategorized on April 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »

For those who don’t know, we’re in the lead generation business with our company, Ampush Media.  Our focus area has been on Career and Online Education.  We run a number of specific domain products built around different focuses to generate leads for our clients.  Here is a list of those domains: DegreeAmerica.com (Our main domain.) [...]

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Was the Groupon Price Tag Cheap?

Posted in Business, Investing, Startups on April 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »

TechCrunch reports that Groupon just raised $135 Million at a $1.35 Billion valuation.  They also provide the full press release as to the details (used for some operational capital but also allowing investors/insiders to take some money off the table.)  When people throw around crazy numbers that start with a “B”, especially for an internet [...]

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The “Rob a Bank Test” of Startups

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship on April 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »

I was a bad kid. Not like a ‘terrible,’ beat people up, deal drugs, got to juvenile hall kind of kid… but a naughty kid.  I may have egged a few cars, thrown parties when my parents were out of town, vandalized things here and there and snuck out/joy rided in cars before I had [...]

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What Does Disruption Look Like?

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship on April 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Above is a chart of the stock performance of two companies, since 2003, which compete in the same space.  For now, we’ll call one “blue” and the other “red” (hint: this will be ironic later.)  They are both consumer facing companies and brands which VIRTUALLY anyone would recognize.  They are large, well known, serving in [...]

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