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APRIL 15, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. billion to Yahoo! plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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MARCH 11, 2011

So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet? But obviously Google won the war.

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