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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. 1:20 and they turned up like clockwork. And covered we did.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. And if you have hundreds of millions of search queries and only 0.5% click on the search ads (versus the organic results) you still have a very large market. Early evidence is good.