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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens. SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

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Think of web vs. mobile. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. I’ve sat on ad tech boards with board members who clearly knew little about impressions, fill rates, CTRs, RTB, eCPMs or the difficulties & opportunities of embedded mobile SDKs vs. HTML5. Traditional software vs. SaaS. FourSquare. Everywhere.

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There’s No Such Thing as an MCN. It’s a Figment of Your Imagination

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From the day after we sold the company until today I felt it was important that I not comment too much publicly about online video even though I continued to work actively in the sector and made five more investments. We had a studio and invested in content creation. And of course SnapChat is relevant for younger video consumers.

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