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Video Time: 41 minutes 49 seconds
Today’s video features Drew Curtis, founder of the hilarious website fark.com, which is a popular site made up of links to humorous and sometimes strange news articles. In this video, Curtis explains how he built up fark.com to what it is today. Through trial and error, efficiency, and experience, Curtis made fark.com into a million dollar business.
Curtis explains that you don’t need venture capital to be a successful internet entrepreneur. He compares the failure of his well funded ISP in the late 90’s to the success of fark.com, which he started with no investors. To keep overhead low, fark.com has only three employees, no office, and only five servers that handle an enormous amount of traffic. Fark.com gets over 2,000 link submissions a day, and more than 60 million page-views a month. Drew also shares his insight on social networking and internet advertising.
For more on Drew Curtis, check out his book, It’s Not News, It’s Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass off Crap as News.
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