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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. A gentleman had stopped by our booth multiple times and then wrote me immediately after the conference and said that I “HAD to come and meet with his partners the very next week.” And covered we did.