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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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He then pointed out that for service-based businesses every slot that went unfilled the provider had very high fixed costs and very low marginal costs and people ought to be willing to sell low-demand or last-minute expiring times at a discount while selling premium times at full price or even a surge price.

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

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He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. So he founded … wait … CitySearch. Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch? If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet? So he launched a company with exclusively paid search.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. I instantly hit it off with Greg because we was a fountain of knowledge. On each subsequent meeting I’d learn a little bit more.

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How Luxury Link Is Growing Its Travel Marketplace, With Scott Morrow

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Scott Morrow is an Internet and startup veteran, having run such companies as Oversee.net and ThisNext, and headed up product marketing for IAC/Citysearch. You get access to luxury at a discount price. Our is unique inventory, packaged with the best web pricing. That lets us be super aggressive in pricing.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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I’d bet if one is disciplined about investing here you’d see significantly better pricing than chasing deals in the overly competitive Bay Area corridors. We have all of the 2nd-time entrepreneurs from Overture, CitySearch, MySpace, etc. It’s not an either / or but both / and.

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Interview with Sam Rogoway, Near Networks

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What we want to do is bring very good videos to businesses, at a very affordable price. Yelp and CitySearch have been around for awhile, but Foursquare is really built on local businesses, Groupon, LivingSocial, and other deal sites are built on the backs of local businesses.

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Interview: Ian Siegel of ZipRecruiter

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Messenger : Ian Siegel , Co-Founder |CEO ZipRecruiter , Former Executive Product and Technology roles at: MyLife, CitySearch, Stamps.com, Rent.com and Pictage. I think the biggest problem Monster, HotJobs, and CareerBuilder face right now is that they are charging premium prices for what is an increasingly commoditized product.

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