Software By Rob
JANUARY 25, 2012
This acquisition is a long story, but if you have a few minutes let me tell you the best parts. If you’re interested you can read about one of my acquisitions from a few years back in a post titled The Inside Story of a Small Software Acquisition. Aaaah yes…the search. My Background.
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
A lot of people ask me what it was like raising the Series A round for LinkedIn back in 2003. I thought I’d revisit it and share the story… First, you have to rewind mentally to early 2003. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003. He provided our initial seed funding to launch the website publicly on May 5, 2003.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 4, 2011
I ran my first marathon in London this way in 2003 raising $3,000 for Parkinson’s disease (and finishing in under 4 hours – my publicly stated goal). Customer Acquisition. You can find out how to more cost effectively buy search terms (i.e. Those two things together would lower your acquisition costs nearly in half to $6.11.
Genuine VC
JANUARY 7, 2010
Back in 2003 Google acquired Applied Semantics for just over $100M. In a decade in which we saw the web become increasingly distributed with a proliferation websites and content, this acquisition served as a foundation to empower Google to move beyond their core search Adwords product. Sound familiar?
Genuine VC
JANUARY 7, 2010
Back in 2003 Google acquired Applied Semantics for just over $100M. In a decade in which we saw the web become increasingly distributed with a proliferation websites and content, this acquisition served as a foundation to empower Google to move beyond their core search Adwords product. Sound familiar?
Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 21, 2011
Of late, however, it looks like they just might be getting their local strategy together and marshaling a suite new features combined with existing assets to put themselves in position to take a giant leap in the local reviews, local offers, and local social games to go with their strong local search position. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :
Agile VC
MARCH 13, 2012
While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). property over the years, but certainly frequented not just search but also News, Yahoo! I remember when Yahoo!
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