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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. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). Consumer approach to software for business users. And covered we did.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). As we learned from our investment in Overture and the subsequent success of Google, “intent-based&# advertising is enormously powerful. But 70% of my investment decision in early-stage companies is the team.

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