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Tell HN: Monetization Meetup (May 18, 2009) at Googleplex (Bldg #43)
- redsymbol 17y agoCan someone help clarify this meetup's topic for me? To me, "monetization" means "extracting more revenue/sales/profit from each user"... a kind of general business issue. But it looks like this is more about virtual currency systems in game and game-like worlds. Is that right?
- code_devil 17y agoMy understanding is that it's around Virtual Currency trying to monetize your applications (facebook, myspace, etc). And you still monetize a 'user' as you make him buy Virtual Currency via either i) Real Dollars. (you get the money) ii) Doing Offers. (The Offering company pays you) Many VC's think it's a proven model for at least Social Networking Applications. (See Offerpal Media, Peanut Labs) I will be heading there tomorrow, so I will update you guys how it went.
- redsymbol 17y agoThanks!
- code_devil 17y agoyou can use the #mnw2 to get tweets on the topic OR I'll blog the main points when I get some time.
- trekker7 17y agoI'd love to see more posts like this directly on HN.
- code_devil 17y agoBTW there is also a NewTech meetup every 1st Tuesday of the month at Palo Alto on the DLA Piper Buildings(near 101). Typically it consists of 3 or 4 demos of products(pretty much Web based applications). I saw Evernote, FluidApp, Retrevo to name a few in these meetups. It's then followed by Networking where you can look for fellow founders or even hire developers etc etc ...