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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. 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. PLUS RELATED FUNDING ….

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

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All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. 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. Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch?