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

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I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). In industry this is known as “yield management” and of course it needs to exist. Let me not bury the lede. So there you have it.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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What would it take in investments to acquire and retain traffic to support these businesses? If you look at the structure of the travel industry above – of course we know that the hotel industry is fragmented while the airline industry is reasonable consolidated. The top 5 players combined control less than 25% of the market.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly. However, Search Engine Management (SEM) is not a “set and forget” exercise. Affiliates invest the up-front marketing expenses required to attract customers. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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

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Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks! And now, of course, UberSocial, Bill’s latest project. His first “real&# business came in college where he designed audio speakers. Shopping.com.