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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. And the obvious category, especially for a VC based out of LA, is video. I’ll save it for a future post.

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

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

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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