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Well duh, Fansnap has a 1 million dollar per year ad budget :). And now it's 15k vs 15 million!

In seriousness though, Fansnap has done a kick ass job on many many fronts. Luckily the market is a $4 billion industry so I think there's room for a few companies to play. I believe PG's point was that a bootstrapped company can now compete with a venture-backed company. That wasn't always the case.

Compete isn't very accurate anyway.

-Dan, Co-founder, TicketStumbler




Wait a second! Are you saying that marketing and advertisement actually work and that you need more than just a good product?!


Indeed.


Yes to the poster of this can you post your Google Analytics graph of this same period and where traffic is coming from?

Is it legit or bought traffic?

Also, don't believe high rankings on web mean those sites are actually being used or have active users; many sites buy traffic http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10303994-93.html?tag=mncol;... for obvious reasons.




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