Ty Ahmad-Taylor is the founder and CEO of FanFeedr, a real-time personalized sports feed. Previously, he was SVP of Strategy and Product Development at Viacom (NYSE: VIA) and, before that, Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA). He tweets at @tyahma
If you are a consumer-facing startup pitching to VCs, the conversation is very short if your monetization strategy leads with advertising. It may, in fact, actually be a longer conversation if you simply say you don

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