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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. billion to Yahoo! 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:

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To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards.