Noah Kagan lost $25K acquiring a Chrome extension he failed to monetize
Noah Kagan · Brainstorming The Best Business Ideas To Start In 2022 with Noah Kagan · Jan 18, 2022 · at 18:29
Noah Kagan shares a failed browser extension acquisition attempting to monetize via ads and paid features.
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“I think I bought it for 25,000 for 40,000 installs active installs on Chrome. But with that one, we could not monetize it at all. We tried like paid features. We tried ads to it. We tried to grow it. And we were not as successful. So I pretty much lost almost all the money on that one.”
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