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Unexpected challenges of making money on the internet

by Julia Enthoven kapwing.com published 2018-01-237 min read

Before I left Google to work on my own startup, I hadn’t thought much about monetization. I believed that, because so many websites do it everyday, charging people for online services would be straightforward. But as I started growing Kapwing, my video editing website, [https://www.kapwing.com/] with

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