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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. You can watch this week’s TWiVC episode by clicking on the link and my summary notes are below. {if It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it.

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

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All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. Summary notes, as always, provide below. He invented the category of sponsored search. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. It was a pleasure to write them myself.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

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But I’m working on a large team of people trying to figure out how to make micro improvements to a paid-search algorithm. ” Your VC friends have been egging you on. The don’t understand VC liquidation preferences or multiple return expectations. Aren’t they worth billions of dollars?”

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