{"id":51,"date":"2010-01-30T15:44:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T20:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/entrepreneurship\/?p=51"},"modified":"2010-01-30T15:44:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T20:44:45","slug":"featured-startup-viglink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/entrepreneurship\/2010\/01\/featured-startup-viglink\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured startup: VigLink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.viglink.com\">VigLink<\/a> is a new company started by a classmate at HBS. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The viglink guys managed to line up some very famous investors, including Google Ventures and a founder of LinkedIn. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It enables website administrators to  automatically convert existing links into affiliate links.<\/span> One quick install and a website automatically participates in every relevant affiliate program.<br \/>\nIt saves webmasters endless hours of registering for affiliate programs and setting manually the right links.<\/p>\n<p><span>Great concept in my point of view, here some quotes from Oliver:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>&#8220;Every time a click leaves a publisher&#8217;s site,  value is being created, and publishers should be able to capitalize on  that value,&#8221; said Roup, co-founder and CEO, in a statement. &#8220;But our  analysis shows that the complexity and labor involved are prohibitive  more than half the time. VigLink has created a product that makes  solving that problem transparent and effortless, not just for new  content but for the back catalog as well.&#8221; <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VigLink is a new company started by a classmate at HBS. The viglink guys managed to line up some very famous investors, including Google Ventures and a founder of LinkedIn. It enables website administrators to automatically convert existing links into affiliate links. One quick install and a website automatically participates in every relevant affiliate program. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14606],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-startups"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/entrepreneurship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/entrepreneurship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/entrepreneurship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/entrepreneurship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/entrepreneurship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/entrepreneurship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/entrepreneurship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/entrepreneurship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/entrepreneurship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/entrepreneurship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}