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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Overture sold for $1.6

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. Yes, long before Yelp or any similar service. We talked about patents. Summary notes, as always, provide below.