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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. So the Yellow Page business was always “pay for placement.&#. Overture was sold to Yahoo!

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How Honey Offers A Shortcut To Savings, with Ryan Hudson

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That's exactly what the software from Honey (www.joinhoney.com) does, by automatically helping users of Google's Chrome Browser to find and try out e-commerce coupon codes. When you get to checkout and there's that coupon code and promo code box, everyone knows to go to Google and look for those codes. Ryan Hudson: Apparently not.

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Be Careful not to be Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

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Using Balsamiq instead of SnagIt, Website Optimizer over just Google Analytics and FTP). I know from experience – it helps fuel the wrong culture and it is very hard to rebuild your culture once it is set. Another area where founders sometimes spend too much time is accounting. Penny wise, pound foolish. I Love Scrappy.

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When Should Technical Founders Become CEO?

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Case in point is the return of Larry Page to the role as CEO of Google. I don’t think that Google would have become the success story we all know without the leadership of Eric Schmidt through the years he led the company. So why did Larry need to return? and Microsoft had become.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 Social Networking in Web 2.0.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. How has your history with Jason Spievak , Colin Kelley and the rest of the former CallWave team shaped and benefited the company?

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

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Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. In terms of topics we spoke about: - Do VC’s send your presentations around to other people if they don’t fund you? short answer: very, very rarely. This is unintentional and inevitable. YOu should check it out.