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Reflections on 2020: Nick Hedges, MomentFeed

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We successfully accelerated our product innovation schedule to deliver, in record time, solutions to meet these challenges. 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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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. The configuration of the team was: 1 CEO, 1 Product Lead and a tech team of 6 people.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. And if even 1% of users click on the ads because they’re relevant rather than on the organic search it’s a HUGE business (as you know). Check out TwtApps alone!

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. Free product. Don’t you guys want to see the product? I wasn’t feeling it.