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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. It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. billion to Yahoo! plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” No less than Fred Wilson has credited Carlota’s work with having a major influence on his investment strategy at USV.

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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. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo!