Website URL

http://www.emptyspaceads.com

Date of Launch:

June, 2007

Tell us about your startup business:

We super-charge your ad revenue by automatically detecting empty space on your website and gently placing more of existing ads in it. On average, we increase ad revenue between 4 to 7%, some customers see boosts of 15%.

I started emptyspaceads while working nights and weekends at Microsoft when I was 23.

How are you funding your startup?

Started out as self funded, then raised seed funding from investors in Seattle.

Looking for additional funding?

We'll be looking for additional funding within 6 months.

What are some of the future goals for your startup?

To create ads that think and act faster than users. To be the broker to the web's empty space.

Advice for other startups? Favourite Quotes?

"Run a business, not a startup" - Paul Rush @ substantial consulting in NY and Seattle
"A startup is a club for people who spend people's money or eat ramen noodles (spending your own)." - Paul Rush
"Happy, efficient, effective David" - David
"Change only takes place through action. Not through prayer or meditation, but through action." - Dalai Lama
"Celebrate your success" - Olympus Apartment Building Downtown
"Positive state is fuel for future tasks. Yelling 'Victory' re-fills one's fuel for doing tasks" - Amit B.
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." - Mark Twain (Sophie's great grandfather)
"The fierce urgency of now" - MLK
"The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes." - Tom Kelly (IDEO)
"Now is all you have" - bumper sticker on fountain outside olympics natoinal park
"Run a business, not a startup" - Paul Rush @ substantial consulting in NY and Seattle
"The world is like a book, those who never travel read only one page." - St. Augustine

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - Teddy Roosevelt