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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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I hear it right after people have decided to come by for a few days to “check out what all the fuss is about.” So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. Structural.

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Interview with Robert Blatt, MomentFeed

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Once you get past Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, and maybe Yelp and Bing, you've counted for 90 percent of all interaction. If you ask Siri for where to get skinny legs jeans, or ask Google Maps for where to get a vegan burrito, they try to give you the best recommendation.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

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Of course not. It’s a hard topic to write about because it’s almost an accepted norm that total transparency is good. Your parents want to know why on Earth you’d leave a job at Google. Of course you need to be open. His entire team knew about the process and that we didn’t sell.

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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. As long as you have a well architected site that allows Google to properly spider your content, spend the rest of your time and money focusing on maximizing the remaining marketing tools listed below.

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

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So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. Google was clear that they WOULD NOT go into this business. They were a juggernaut and Google was a small company. But obviously Google won the war. That gave Google a huge cost advantage.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

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Chris Dixon , September 12, 2010 My most useful career experience was about eight years ago when I was trying to break into the world of VC-backed startups. Four Minutes In The Morning - Feld Thoughts , September 1, 2010 Amy and I created a tradition about a decade ago we call “four minutes in the morning.&# Hybrid monetization.

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