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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. Because GoTo.com was his idea. It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. But bill is a BIG idea guy. In my mind, not a typical VC investment.

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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. He invented the category of sponsored search. He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. Overture (Goto.com).