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MARCH 11, 2011

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! To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. Overture (Goto.com).

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Force… From a competitive perspective (e.g. Now, given our current economic crisis and VC ‘challenges’, the barriers to funding have gone up significantly as well. How’s that for duality.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Rejecting the paint-by-numbers approach to corporate communications deployed by most marketing executives, Brad has embraced unconventional guerilla marketing tactics to help establish his venture capital firm, Foundry Group, as a thought leader in early-stage tech investing. companies should… focus on building amazing products.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. And I certainly didn’t want him having to trapse up-and-down Sand Hill Road informing every VC of his next idea. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award. Nice sweep! But Ethan had left by the time of the acquisition.

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APRIL 4, 2011

How many through SEM? per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. But there are other reasons people churn – low product quality, inability to understand the value of the product, costs, competitive products, etc. How many adds came through organic SEO?

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MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. But this isn’t likely to be a VC-backable business (which to be clear is totally ok). Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. Competition. Market Size.

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