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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!

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APRIL 15, 2010

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. billion to Yahoo! My take was that this follows three trends: a) customer involvement in product design, b) mass customization [e.g. Because GoTo.com was his idea. Overture sold for $1.6

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MARCH 11, 2011

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards.

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