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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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I first met Ethan in 2005. For Ethan it came down to two companies – BuildOnline or Google. ” I proclaimed to Ethan, “Google is at $400 / share. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. So there you have it.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc. Let me be very direct.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA.