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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. One recession later and the US advertising market is about $245 billion – but still only 10-12% is online and measurable. I believe that many social networks confused this idea.

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DOMAINfest Global

SoCal Tech Calendar

DOMAINfest is a conference series that brings domain industry and Internet professionals together to learn, network, and do business.

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DOMAINfest Global

SoCal Tech Calendar

DOMAINfest is a conference series that brings domain industry and Internet professionals together to learn, network, and do business.

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DOMAINfest Global

SoCal Tech Calendar

DOMAINfest is a conference series that brings domain industry and Internet professionals together to learn, network, and do business.

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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

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Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. Your tech needs to add value to content producers, the audience and advertisers. You must invest in technology.

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5 Tips For Startups To Win With Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

Top social networks are Facebook (1.2 Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). SEM is the most common form of online marketing, which increases your website visibility on search engine results pages through optimization and advertising. billion users).

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. But my contact told me that many viral videos start through close networks on Reddit where a degree of formal and informal collaboration of individuals takes place.

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