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Sponsored Poolfunding: A New Way To Think About Maximizing Advertising Dollars

YoungUpstarts

Google continues to evolve and refine its search algorithms over time, leading more businesses to turn to paid advertising models to get the exposure they seek in the multi-channel, multi-device world. You have to consider mobile advertising, social media, content marketing, pay-per-click, and let’s not forget organic SEO.

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

reidhoffman.org

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. That is, build a massive database of travel information that provided a white label search engine for travel sites like Expedia and Travelocity. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

Up and Running

You come there, there’s nothing but a search bar. The search engines have done a wonderful job of really serving that up. Any eCommerce site owner will tell you that anyone that comes to their site, they’re much more likely to convert if they use the search box. John: No, get them into your site.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

era emerged circa 2004, it really did feel like we’d discovered some kind of utopia. Advertisers bid for our attention in online auction systems. Today with algorithms we have a secret black box. So let’s put that argument to bed once and for all: Anyone who sells advertising around content = media company.

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28 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

After taking another year to build a second email marketing startup (with Anvil running in the background), I finally decided it was time for me to commit to building my own team and Anvil grew in earnest in 2004. Firstly I had been traveling the world and running blogs online, earning money by selling advertising.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Mike believes the reason AltaVista didn’t become Google ( despite their market leadership position ) was because they didn’t focus on search. Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business.

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