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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

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. Because GoTo.com was his idea. Overture sold for $1.6 billion to Yahoo! But bill is a BIG idea guy.

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

Both Sides of the Table

So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. So he founded IdeaLab with his wife Marcia Goodstein (he talks in the video about working with a spouse and also working with siblings). If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet?