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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

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With Fiber, Google has 2 primary objectives: 1) Billionaire celebrity investor Warren Buffet explains the first reason most eloquently: “In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats” Fiber is a moat-widening endeavor. 2) Fiber is a means to Google’s vision of the future of computing.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot

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Google had no clue that they were going to make so much money in sponsored search. They came to me 2 years ago with their company, GumGum , and were trying to raise an A round of capital. They had also raised money from Howard Morgan at First Round Capital who if you check out his bio you will see is legendary.

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

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Early on GumGum began to experiment with overlaying rich media ads through Flash with photos until technology progressed and they moved over to Javascript. million dollars from some of the biggest funds (First Round Capital, NEA and GRP), is precisely because they solved such a huge problem. Much bigger.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. Type “personal financial management&# into Google. They achieved all of this before they raised even a penny of venture capital.

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How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess

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U; en)" (among others) while the Google search engine bot goes by"Googlebot/2.1 (+[link] (among others). Note that the word "SpammerRobot"can be in any mixture of capital (uppercase) or small (lowercase) letters. The "User Agent string" is just the name thatthe program accessing your site goes by. For example, version 9.51

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