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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, Do you really want to spent $100k building a product to discover through Customer Development that the market is too small? The COGS (costs of goods sold) tells me about how big your customer acquisition costs will be. portfolios. You get the point.

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Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

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MARCH 11, 2011

I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. Overture was sold to Yahoo! billion – not a bad result, hey?

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

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APRIL 15, 2010

billion to Yahoo! Rumored: Digital Sky Technologies. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. The question will be “at what price?&# And for investors, “at what valuation did they get in?&#. $10 Because GoTo.com was his idea.

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