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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill. My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog. And covered we did.

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Insights and Opinions: The 3 Ways to Get Traffic to Your Website

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That being said, I'm still amazed at how often I have this conversation with folks  both with semi-season internet players, VC's, and newbies. Organic Search  learn how to show up in Google's free, organic search results. Without further adieu, here are the 3 ways to generate website traffic: 1.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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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.