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Reflections on 2020: Nick Hedges, MomentFeed

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As brick-and-mortar businesses closed and re-opened at limited capacity, our team of digital marketing strategists updated hours on more than 1.3 Nick helped orchestrate the successful sale of the company to Velocify partner and leading cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry, Ellie Mae.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Early evidence is good.

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Concerns Keeping You From Social Media

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Even every platform has a help resource – LinkedIn , Facebook , Twitter , MySpace … blogging platforms… all showing you and explaining what it is about and how you can get started… Visit YouTube and type about any topic and you can simply watch unlimited number of videos about Social media.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). And I believe that Twitter has an interest in seeing some third-parties make tons of money out of their platform.

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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. They looked nervous at having to speak with me impromptu and without the benefit of financial figures to scoff at, product pitches that they’ve seen 100 times and a market sizing to unpick. Page 1: Market Size.

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

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Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ranker is a social site/platform for ranking anything, powered by semantic technology that aggregates opinions into ‘wisdom of crowds’ rankings”. Your traffic growth is tracking over 40% month-over-month – on a fairly big base – despite spending zero dollars on marketing. We get traffic from three sources.

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