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Interview: Clark Benson of Founder & CEO of Ranker.com - Dicusses Playing Nice With Google

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How would you describe your relationship with your investors and what can young entrepreneurs learn from your philosophy? “I Your traffic growth is tracking over 40% month-over-month – on a fairly big base – despite spending zero dollars on marketing. The single largest source of growth is organic search.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Early evidence is good.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. They looked nervous at having to speak with me impromptu and without the benefit of financial figures to scoff at, product pitches that they’ve seen 100 times and a market sizing to unpick. Page 1: Market Size.