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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Facebook popularized the short-form “status update&# and this initially is called the “feed&# but over time starts to become known as the “ stream.&# Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g. not all the other applications that were competing for user attention in Facebook). So did the media.

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Interview: Clark Benson of Founder & CEO of Ranker.com - Dicusses Playing Nice With Google

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If someone is investing in me and my idea, I simply don’t want to let them down. It is always great to quickly raise money with your idea, but far more often than not, it’s a long haul (of) relationship building with investors. The single largest source of growth is organic search. I do everything I do all in or nothing.

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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. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Thus, we click!

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. It helps one refine your business focus and share ideas with some of the brightest minds in the industry and be challenged by people who have seen every eventuality in the type of business you want to build.