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billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 For example, I was looking for web hosting, and kept on running into affiliate shills--which is a disease on the internet--where there are people who purport to talk about the best products, but are really pushing whoever is paying them the most money.
In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I Is that when it became big? was starting.
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It's analytics around users and visitation on web sites, and it's knowledge of the consumption of photos--for example, GumGum--or video images on the web. In about 2005, I started looking at the local market, and realized that there are not lots of enterprise IT companies here, which is Palomar's focus.
That was five or six years ago, 2005 or so. This last month was really building out the detail of the product, and launching our web site. TechStars and YCombinator really have pioneered the model. If you talk about Paul Graham and David Cohen, they've pivoted to the model there are at now.
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