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JULY 25, 2010

But what is at play with Reid is another principle called “authority.&# Again, even though VCs are populated by Stanford & Harvard MBAs who all seemed to graduate near the tops of their classes – we’re all in search of authorities we trust to help guide our decisions.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The huge importance of this is that when you have a high-level of loyal customers you get repeat purchases that are significantly more profitable because you’re not spending new acquisition dollars acquiring them. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition). Compare this to 5,000 products at Restoration Hardware.

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APRIL 8, 2010

We covered the following and much more: - FourSquare ( rumors of both an $80m pre money or a $100 million acquisition ). And SEO juice of sites with no value makes searching for real product feedback suck. I was asked if I would pay $80 million. People spent a ton of time researching which gadgets to buy. sites still dominate.

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JUNE 18, 2010

Real-time search engine. Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). You can listen to Om, Paul & I debate the topic in the video.

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JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. This is often in the 5-7% range.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. This no doubt led to the acquisition of AdMob by Google and Quattro by Apple.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Press coverage helps you to recruit team members, it helps add legitimacy to your customers who often do Google searches on you before buying and it helps influence biz dev (partners), corp dev (acquirers) and investors. We plan to continue to use PR as an ongoing part of our customer acquisition strategy.&#. Leave them wanting more.

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MARCH 1, 2011

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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MAY 23, 2012

The numbers of potential buyers had decreased dramatically both because large companies were shedding jobs and because many past buyers simply lacked resources to make acquisitions. According to Google data 30% of all restaurant searches now come via mobile devices. Search for a restaurant, book a table, eat in 30 minutes.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Even an extraordinary engineer or product lead who have built a breakthrough product aren’t guaranteed success unless they can get access to capital, get much needed press to drive low-cost customer acquisition and persuade fickle business leaders to join their company and help them shape their businesses beyond tech innovation.

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MARCH 11, 2011

He invented the category of sponsored search. He created GoTo.com (later renamed Overture) out of a frustration with search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. Overture (Goto.com).

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. rose to prominence by offering a free, ad-supported alternative to all of the crap your mom got on AOL for a fee.

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APRIL 12, 2018

And the advantages in hardware are precisely why Google had to build the Pixel phone and Google Home because if it cedes hardware dominance to others it would have eventually found its core search business eroding. When Jamie wanted to sign on Shaq as the company spokesperson it also cost money.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on. So I thought I would.

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JULY 10, 2011

I wrote extensively about this at the time of their first acquisitions , including this passage: “I saw a lot of this first hand in Salesforce’s acquisition of my company, Koral, which was a content management (CMS) company. We didn’t have the resources to do it all. Or how about Google?

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