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I know about Google Ad words , what other sources of revenues exist ? Given that this is not going to be a blockbuster mega site and it is being bootstrapped on a show string budget, how do I maximize the revenue potential ?

I have read the techcrunch teardown (http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/10/teardown-13-ways-10-million-revenues/) and I understand ad-supported sites are very tough to execute. However, if one were contemplating running a content site, what sources of revenues exist ? How do you go about it ? Any ad network and affiliate network you would recommend ?

I had posted a Review My Start-up type of post about 2 hours ago. It never made it; it has sunk and gone. I was looking forward for peer review of my idea.

Hi Everyone,

I am a solo founder . I have bootstrapped my start-up NewsPVR.TV and now I am launching. I will appreciate any feedback you may have.

This is the problem I am solving :

(My target customers are Web-admins & Marketing folks at Television Stations with Local News and Programming. )

Local TV stations promote their content by Tweets, Email alerts and Facebook posts . These posts/links are driven by their content as opposed to viewers’ interest. A One Hour news show might cover more 15 than topics -- but if a viewer is interested in 4 things --e.g. Price of Gas,Military , Football , schools -- she or he is unlikely to sit through the whole video to get to the bits she or he is interested in.

This is how I solve it:

My product, NewsPVR.TV, will figure out which exact segments of the news video corresponds to the topics each member of audience is interested in ; it creates a play-list with only these items extracted from the news video and posts it to the viewer’s wall as a video clip or emails to it the viewer. This way each viewer gets his or her own personalized new videos. We let the viewer define exactly what they want to watch and we deliver just that along with targeted video advertising. By delivering personalized video news to subscribers, we can improve open rate and click through rates -- thereby increasing revenues.

Sales: I am currently using LinkedIN InMail to reach out to sales prospects. No luck yet ;-(

I would appreciate any help I could get with sales and business development.

I believe in this product so much that I have decided not to charge any money from my clients until my product starts generating marginal revenues for them.

I can be reached at founder@newspvr.tv.

So I am a happy MongoDB user -- with a web app that is about to go public (which means I can't predict the actual load yet and my application would have to change fast and soon). I have been doing my back up etc. Although reading all these scary MongoDB related articles have not had much impact on my architecture , I do wonder what could I be doing to prevent things from going wrong. (I can't afford paid support just yet)

Is there a set of MongoDB best practices for EC2+ EBS ? For the setup configuration and deployment architecture ? Best patterns for usage of API ? Are there any MongoDB recommended AMIs I should be using ?

I want to reiterate that I have faith in MongoDB and my application architecture.I find MongoDB to be well documented and well supported. I am merely seeking all this information in one place.