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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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billion to Yahoo! plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Plus, a TweetUp already means a meet up in a city organized through Twitter. My take was that this follows three trends: a) customer involvement in product design, b) mass customization [e.g. Overture sold for $1.6

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

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GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! Mostly, Google just had way better organic results (“the loss leader&# ) so it was always preferred by consumers. We talked about patents. – the biggest Internet portals of the day.