[butler14]

all this work seems to span 7 years, and your only significant success was $250k (split ~7 ways) - ouch.

definitely some interesting stories and some ballsy attempts - albeit that there was probably too much focus on opportunistic copy / pasta ideas and capitalising on Latvia's lack of search competition, rather than meaningful value creation.

[kristapsmors]

I guess this is a matter of perspective, couple of years ago $250k looked like success to me if you take into account that salary for a developer in Latvia was about 1,5k usd per month, and the profit was split 3 ways. And actually I see getgamers.eu (ad network for gaming sites, profitable since Jan 2013) and maxtraffic.com (1.2 years old, will be profitable next month) as my success, both are still active and growing, but did not mention these in the blog post because they have not failed.