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

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Summary notes, as always, provide below. He invented the category of sponsored search. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. But also when you’re developing so is your competitor. It was a pleasure to write them myself.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

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But I’m working on a large team of people trying to figure out how to make micro improvements to a paid-search algorithm. It is because when you share too much of this information with staff you develop an “options culture” the I find unhealthy. Aren’t they worth billions of dollars?”

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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You can watch this week’s TWiVC episode by clicking on the link and my summary notes are below. {if 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.