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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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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. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Thus, we click!

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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As we learned from our investment in Overture and the subsequent success of Google, “intent-based&# advertising is enormously powerful. And if even 1% of users click on the ads because they’re relevant rather than on the organic search it’s a HUGE business (as you know). Listen, it’s the first inning.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. I later learned that they were a spin out from an investment bank.