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But advertising slows growth. Both because of focus and not as good of an experience.



I'm not clearly understanding what you wrote:

What about "focus"? User's focus when the look at the screen; my focus when I have to work on all the issues in the startup and, then, in addition the ads and, thus, lose my focus; something else?

For user experience, with my Web pages, the ads are fairly easy to ignore. The pages are dirt simple with essentially no JavaScript -- so that pages don't jump around. And all the layout is just via tables so that I know to the last pixel where everything is.

The content the user wants is on the left, and some ads 300 x 250 pixels are on the right. Simple.

So, I'm guessing that the ads will not be very distracting, e.g., won't hurt the ability of the users to focus on the content, i.e., won't yield a poor user experience.




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