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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

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. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category.

Advertising

Advertising Invest RSS CPC

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

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks!

Competition

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch

Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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

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