There has been a lot of discussion lately on HackerNews around email newsletters by Jason Baptiste here and here as well as our own case study about StartupDigest as a newsletter company here Buy Clomid Online Without Prescription, . Email newsletters are a huge business and I believe that we are going through an email renaissance right now (Thrillist founder Ben Lerer thinks so too).
Right now is the best time (especially for a non-technical founder) to start or work for an email newsletter company.
Let’s assume you already have an email newsletter that's still small but has traction, where can i buy cheapest Clomid online, who do you start reaching out to for advice. Buy generic Clomid, Just like in the Web 2.0 world has the PayPal Mafia, the email world has the Email Mafia.
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The Email God, Bob Pittman, Founder of Pilot Group
Referred to as the Man with the Midas touch, he has invested in almost every single successful email newsletter company, Buy Clomid Online Without Prescription. Bob is the creator of the MTV - the Music Television cable network – which revitalized the music business and spawned the music video industry. Where can i buy Clomid online, Now he leads Pilot Group, a NYC based PE Firm that has invested in Thrillist, DailyCandy, Clomid over the counter, SailThru, Online buying Clomid, Zynga, Rapleaf, GeekChicDaily, australia, uk, us, usa, canada, mexico, india, craiglist, ebay, Ideal Bite, Online buy Clomid without a prescription, and more.
The Great Success, Pete Sheinbaum, order Clomid online c.o.d, former CEO of DailyCandy
When email newsletters are referred to as “a serious business”, Order Clomid, the acquisition of Daily Candy is what everyone references. Jason Batispste (also part of the Email Mafia) put it best:
In 2008, [Daily Candy was] sold to Comcast for $125, Clomid pharmacy,000, Buy cheap Clomid no rx, 000. That’s right- 9 f**king digits. Buy Clomid Online Without Prescription, I remember hearing about these rumors when they first started to surface in 2006, and I took a look at DailyCandy. I thought I was missing something since the site was just for an email newsletter. I thought there had to be some social network or great hot new product I was missing, buy Clomid in canada. Nope, Buy Clomid no prescription, it was just that an email newsletter.
Pete was the CEO of DailyCandy during the acquisition and lead the company through the transition before leaving to start his next company, The Mandelbrot Project, funded by the Foundry, purchase Clomid online no prescription. He has also sat on the advisory board of IdealBite, Buy Clomid from mexico, TravelPost, TotalBeauty, and more, purchase Clomid online.
The Golden Boy, Ben Lerer, CEO of Thrillist
Ben, co-founder of Thrillist, has arguably the fastest growing and most profitable private email company today, reportedly doing $10,000,000+ in revenue this year, Buy Clomid Online Without Prescription. They’ve already completed their first acquisition of JackThreads and have been on a hiring tear since. Clomid from canadian pharmacy, In addition Ben has started his own venture capital fund with his father Ken Lerer named Lerer Media Ventures, which has been in on some of the most prolific deals this year: Betaworks, Gdgt, buy no prescription Clomid online, ZeFrank Games, Buy Clomid online no prescription, Sailthru, Hot Potato, Canvas Networks, Clomid for sale, and more. Buy cheapest Clomid, 
The Pilot, Andy Russell, Founder of Pilot Group
Not much is said publically about Andy but he is a partner at the Pilot Group which he founded with Bob Pittman, order Clomid from mexican pharmacy. He sits on the board of VitalJuice, Clomid price, IdealBite, Thrillist, and DailyCandy, order Clomid no prescription. Buy Clomid Online Without Prescription, If you can't find a lot of public information on a guy like this, you know he is truly a badass mafia man.
The Skydiver, Buy Clomid online cod, Peter Shankman, Founder of HARO
Peter is best known for starting Help a Reporter Out or HARO for short. In less than a year the HARO newsletter went from nothing to the standard for how journalists and reporters source news stories, rx free Clomid. HARO reportedly was doing ~$1m in sales per year and recently sold to Vocus for around $20, Clomid samples, 000,000. Not bad for a bootstrapped email list, where can i order Clomid without prescription.
The Green Queen, Jen Boulden, Co-Founder of IdealBite
Jen Boulden is the founder of IdealBite an email newsletter of one green living tip you can act upon, once a day, Buy Clomid Online Without Prescription. Started in 2005, Where can i find Clomid online, Ideal Bite grew to 100,000+ subscribers and sold to Disney for $20,000,000 all in less than 4 years. You can check out Andrew Warner's interview with Jen about how she built her email newsletter business here.
The Reporter, Jason Baptiste
Jason Baptiste is the reason I found out about the business of email newsletters and he has been the person covering the email renaissance since the beginning. It was his two posts here and here that sparked the email business discussions and rumor has it he is working on an email based company of his own :)
The Up and Comer, Neil Capel, CEO of SailThru
SailThru is a relatively new company which just received funding from Bob Pittman, Ben Lerer, AOL Ventures, etc. Buy Clomid Online Without Prescription, It has received the email Midas touch and has a very intriguing product which is still in alpha. Although their product is new, you will definitely be hearing much more about Neil and his company in the near future. He’s the up and comer, so keep him on your radar.
The Health Nuts, Amanda Freeman and Lisa Blau, Co-Founders of Vital Juice
On both Hacker News and the comments below our readers said, what about Vital Juice. I'm not exactly their demographic (which is why I hadn't heard of them before) but they deserve to be in the Email Mafia. They were funded by Pilot Group, have been killing in on Compete, last reported to have 100k subscribers growing at 10% a month.
And on a personal note I am extremely proud of all that our email newsletter company StartupDigest has accomplished so far. Our email newsletter StartupDigest has grown from a 22-subscriber side project to a 60,000+ subscriber international media company in less than 7 months. StartupDigest is still very young but we are already seeing the massive potential of what we have created.
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The founder of Daily Candy is Dany Levy =)
She is super cool -> http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/01/bachelors-kitchen-party-at-dany-levy.html
She deserve a mention!
Levy is indeed the founder, but Sheinbaum took it to new levels. Both were instrumental in the company’s success. DailyCandy is still a juggernaut with its high CPMs, but is struggling.
Interesting list of companies, another company I have seen is VitalJuice (healthy lifestyle newsletter)
yep, pretty sure Vital Juice is larger (readership-wise) than Ideal Byte ever was, too
Does anyone know if Vital Juice was bought? Saw they took the initial investment but couldn’t find any recent news on them.
FierceMarkets has been doing free, business-to-businessw email newsletters very successfully since 2002. http://www.fiercemarkets.com/about_us
Incidentally, we’re hiring.
This list is not complete without www.Lifescript.com and CEO Ron Caporale. They are easily the least known major emailer, they excel in the women’s health and lifestyle segment.
thanks for including, never would have heard of them! We need to do a post on a directory of all the email newsletter companies we know about….
You forgot one of Pilot’s biggest new email products, http://TastingTable.com
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/04/tasting-table-is-the-daily-candy-for-foodies/
thanks
Geoff & Team TastingTable
So how do newsletters monetize usually?
Through paid advertising that accompany the newsletter?
I get the no/low cost of distribution, the opt-in methods, and privacy – but still trying to figure out the business model.
Any insights. (Coincidentally, I came upon this thread from StartupDigest).
czbond
A post is coming on this topic soon..
But the short answer is direct advertising, ecommerce, or paid subscription.
Great post.
These are all great people that helped the email industry become what it is today which is recognized, respected and a major player in the marketing industry.
Congrad to StartupDigest on growing their email subscriber list so quickly. I am certain more wonderful things are on the way.