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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

Both Sides of the Table

Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar. Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer. We can do better.

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Even Branding Should Be Agile: An Interview With Base Creative’s Matthew Kinsman

Up and Running

In 2003, Matthew Kinsman was traveling around the world and found himself in Hong Kong. But there are some other steps you can take toward a viral marketing campaign: Prepare to grow: Make sure your web hosting account is ready for increased traffic and your merchant account is ready for an increase in sales. Don’t hold out.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation. The core idea had support from Larry Page, but the idea immediately encountered some pretty strong resistance from both the ad sales team, and the engineering team. Some were just plain uncomfortable with advertising.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction. What’s your differential business strategy? Your differential growth strategy? Your differential product?

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The Most Challenging Part of Becoming a Freelance Developer.

Software By Rob

A better approach is to focus on your strengths and from there determine the method(s) that will work best to differentiate yourself from every other the freelance developers around the world.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter: July 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

The program is geared to medium to large companies with sales of between 20 and 200 million shekels and annual exports of at least 10% of sales that are interested in establishing themselves in the Indian or Chinese market for the long run. The company has plants in Israel and the US, and sales offices in the US, Japan, and Europe.

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