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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. I had intended to talk about how bad the process could become, not to name-and-shame anybody (and The Funded was not yet around). Page 3: Competition. And covered we did. Tempus Fugit. Page 5: Financials.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly And if even 1% of users click on the ads because they’re relevant rather than on the organic search it’s a HUGE business (as you know). If we continue our success we will have strong competition. Necessity is the mother of all invention.

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