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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. My take was that this follows three trends: a) customer involvement in product design, b) mass customization [e.g.

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

Both Sides of the Table

So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet?