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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. He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. MyTime aims to be the first industry-wide platform to help create consistency across the SKUs in services businesses.

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

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Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA. WordStream – Provides software and services that help businesses manage SEM and SEO campaigns. On the show we also spoke about a company I really like called DataPop and how they help with keywords, AdSense text and landing pages.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Yet I can’t help thinking there are many predictable failures that come from a lack of basic planning. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. And influencers may help once or twice but ultimately nothing is free. You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc.

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