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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Facebook popularized the short-form “status update&# and this initially is called the “feed&# but over time starts to become known as the “ stream.&# Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g. So we ended up with “real-time streams&# in Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blip.FM, etc.

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Interview: Clark Benson of Founder & CEO of Ranker.com - Dicusses Playing Nice With Google

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Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ranker is a social site/platform for ranking anything, powered by semantic technology that aggregates opinions into ‘wisdom of crowds’ rankings”. If someone is investing in me and my idea, I simply don’t want to let them down. The single largest source of growth is organic search.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. 1:20 and they turned up like clockwork. And covered we did.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. And if you have hundreds of millions of search queries and only 0.5% click on the search ads (versus the organic results) you still have a very large market. Thus, we click!