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

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The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad. So the Yellow Page business was always “pay for placement.&#. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet?

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

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If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group.

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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

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Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. We look at stage, geography and of course sector. Far from it. Lots of it.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate. Of course we all had the Utopian view as technologists often do but the laws of unintended consequences takes over. Others are skeptical, “Ha!

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MakeSpace Raises an Additional $17.5 million and Unveils Strategy to Make Public Storage the Next Blockbuster Video

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They are the classic case of the Innovator’s Dilemma because they fundamentally can’t innovate on their product and can’t lower costs or their business craters. And it’s easy to run circles around them as our product differentiation shows. Growing our Product Lines. It worked perfectly. This was painful.

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The Loneliness of Success that Nobody Talks About

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They suffered in trying to live up to public perceptions and the demands to continue their successes. Of course that’s true. In both cases the biopics portray suffering souls who find extreme and sudden success that casts them into the public eye in a way that they weren’t prepared for. Mark Suster (@msuster) July 19, 2015.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

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Maybe small amounts of money for what founders reading these pages dream of but life-changing for many. Of course you know Gangnam Style , which is now the most viewed video in history at 1.3 think Amazon) and therefore hits with high production costs were more suited to the medium. Gangnam Style Meets Torso TV. billion views.

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