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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. So when he saw the browser it instantly dawned on him that this would be the greatest customer development tool ever. Yes, long before Yelp or any similar service. They are very hands on.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Many other people over paid for Chemdex, VerticalNet, Pets.com, etc. Because GoTo.com was his idea. billion to Yahoo!