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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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billion to Yahoo! He’s behind IdeaLab and has created many interesting companies including innovating in solar energy ( eSolar ) and electric cars ( Aptera ). I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. It offers Internet radio targeted advertising and is growing really well.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! Immediately thereafter Amazon became a large business.