Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers. He invented the category of sponsored search. 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.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2013

Our current categories are electronics, photo equipment, cameras, lenses, appliances, music equipment, and baby products. We''re now in five categories, and we''re looking into computers and video games next. You have all the bidding, going back and forth, and competition which drives the price up. Where did that come from?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. It will be tough for there to be many huge winners in this category.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We have been smart about how to make investments in our business, and when we jump into a new category or vertical. That''s when we started looking at credit repair, online education, and others. generation lead marketing online startup interview consumertrack rossman brett' READ MORE>>.

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