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Lessons Learned from imeem

Sachin Rekhi

It's that time again as this past Wednesday was my last day at imeem. As some of you know, imeem acquired Anywhere.FM Since then I've helped to migrate Anywhere.FM, develop the imeem Media Platform , and contribute to a variety of monetization projects. at the end of 2007. But now I'm eager to move on to the next adventure :).

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Designing and Testing an Ad Product: 5 Lessons Learned From imeem's Audio Ads

Sachin Rekhi

Andrew Chen asked me to write a guest post on his blog about some of my experiences monetizing music at imeem. In its search to find the most effective way to monetize user’s time spent listening to music, imeem has become one of the early innovators in the nascent online audio advertising space. I wanted to share it here as well.

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The Value of the Y Combinator Experience

Sachin Rekhi

We built Anywhere.FM , a web music player that brought an iTunes-like experience to the web, and eventually sold it to imeem. The advice comes from a variety of speakers that Y Combinator bring ins. But the real value of YC comes from the funding combined with all the other more important benefits. So what is Y Combinator?

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What today’s social apps can learn from Web 2.0, the social network revolution from 15 years ago

Andrew Chen

For today, I’m cross-posting and combining two tweetstorms I recently did on the future generation of social apps, and what we can learn from the Web 2.0 I’m toying with the idea of doing a series on all of these “forgotten lessons” with the idea that they will be relevant for people coming up.

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Optimizing Offer Providers with Sometrics Virtual Currency Manager

Sachin Rekhi

At imeem , I was responsible for evaluating, signing up, testing, and optimizing the various offer and direct payment providers that were leveraged as part of the imeem points virtual economy. Then from within the Sometrics dashboard, you can easily add providers. I've seen the split be anywhere from 50 - 90% net to publisher.