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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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And I certainly didn’t want him having to trapse up-and-down Sand Hill Road informing every VC of his next idea. They decided early to only book very high quality vendors so they build a system that could pull in Yelp & CitySearch reviews and they set the standard that it had to be highly rated.

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

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All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks! So he founded … wait … CitySearch. Summary notes, as always, provide below.