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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

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.” You have an “Elvis Presley like moment” where you realize the next generation is already consuming different media than our tastes might appreciate. Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media. But you don’t need to spend money on SEM.

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How to Solve the Biggest Frustration Marketers Have With Social

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When polled 88% of marketing professionals said they couldn’t accurately measure the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns and the majority said lack of ROI measurement is their single greatest frustration with social media (Forbes). If you sent multiple Tweets you’d want to know which time of day was more effective.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. OTHER DEALS. Primarily targets SMBs.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM. No platform is naïve enough to allow an outsider to grow enormously large in their ecosystem without an appropriate tax or benefit to them. Let me be very direct.

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