InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

We get referring site traffic. The single largest source of growth is organic search. We’ve got a very search-friendly site; we are starting to see what Google calls ‘authority’ for terms like ‘list’ and ‘top’ and ‘best’. We haven’t had a down week for organic search traffic all year.”.

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Google Organic Search Sites Startup 264

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

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. It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. Search will remain big but stream is an increasing method of discovering information and therefore driving web traffic. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category.

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Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

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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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286