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I've included links to a few relevant Quora threads here: http://www.quora.com/What-is-Posterous-business-model http://www.quora.com/What-is-Posterous-business

I've included links to a few relevant Quora threads here: http://www.quora.com/What-is-Posterous-business-model http://www.quora.com/What-is-Posterous-business-model http://www.quora.com/Posterous/How-does-Posterous-make-money http://www.quora.com/Posterous/How-does-Posterous-make-money http://www.quora.com/Tumblr/How-does-Tumblr-make-money http://www.quora.com/Tumblr/How-does-Tumblr-make-money http://www.quora.com/How-exactly-will-Tumblr-monetize-Other-than-premium-themes http://www.quora.com/How-exactly-will-Tumblr-monetize-Other-... http://www.quora.com/Tumblr/How-does-Tumblr-generate-revenue http://www.quora.com/Tumblr/How-does-Tumblr-generate-revenue http://www.quora.com/How-do-free-blog-publishing-platforms-e-g-Blogger-Tumblr-WordPress-make-money http://www.quora.com/How-do-free-blog-publishing-platforms-e... http://www.quora.com/How-do-you-monetize-blogging-as-the-blogging-platform-provider-(e.g.-Tumblr-Posterous-etc.) http://www.quora.com/How-do-you-monetize-blogging-as-the-blo... There is surprisingly little detail here, though, possibly suggesting that the companies haven't quite figured it out yet!

dropshopsa 15y ago
This is a nice comment from one of your links: Luis Felipe Lanz, Intrapreneur, software architect, tec... In my humble opinion, Posterous seems to be following the same strategy than Foursquare, Twitter or even Quora, start for free until get a consolided installed base users, then start side business around publicity.
- cageface 15y ago
  That sounds uncomfortably familiar to us veterans of the '99 crash.
  - mattslight 15y ago
    until adwords, what was the Google business model?
    - william42 15y ago
      Wasn't it «being part of Stanford» originally?
      - ianl 15y ago
        Larry and Sergey started Google, at which time it was no longer a stanford research project, many years before AdWords. In fact, they were very resistant to the idea of have any advertisements and were adamant in maintaining clean search results.
    - cageface 15y ago
      Three or four strong companies emerging from the carnage of thousands and thousands of others doesn't sound like any more now fun than it was the first time.

dropshopsa 15y ago

This is a nice comment from one of your links: Luis Felipe Lanz, Intrapreneur, software architect, tec... In my humble opinion, Posterous seems to be following the same strategy than Foursquare, Twitter or even Quora, start for free until get a consolided installed base users, then start side business around publicity.

cageface 15y ago
That sounds uncomfortably familiar to us veterans of the '99 crash.
- mattslight 15y ago
  until adwords, what was the Google business model?
  - william42 15y ago
    Wasn't it «being part of Stanford» originally?
    - ianl 15y ago
      Larry and Sergey started Google, at which time it was no longer a stanford research project, many years before AdWords. In fact, they were very resistant to the idea of have any advertisements and were adamant in maintaining clean search results.
  - cageface 15y ago
    Three or four strong companies emerging from the carnage of thousands and thousands of others doesn't sound like any more now fun than it was the first time.