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SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

It’s a hard topic to write about because it’s almost an accepted norm that total transparency is good. But I’m working on a large team of people trying to figure out how to make micro improvements to a paid-search algorithm. They told you, “Yeah, man, I’ll gladly write the first $250,000.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.” In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. Why aren’t there a half-dozen well-funded startups running up your tailpipe? How has your history with Jason Spievak , Colin Kelley and the rest of the former CallWave team shaped and benefited the company? You’re right.

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MARCH 11, 2011

It was a pleasure to write them myself. 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. And when I say this I don’t mean they funded billion dollar companies – they literally created them.

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