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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. Plus, a TweetUp already means a meet up in a city organized through Twitter. In fact, it is Overture 2.0.

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

Both Sides of the Table

So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. Mostly, Google just had way better organic results (“the loss leader&# ) so it was always preferred by consumers. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet? Overture was sold to Yahoo!