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MAY 19, 2010

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Time will tell. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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APRIL 15, 2010

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. It offers Internet radio targeted advertising and is growing really well. High Profile Deal of the Week: 1. This is “Adsense for Twitter.”

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AUGUST 23, 2010

Here’s my experience, my “ah ha&# moment and why I think, although still nascent, it’s one of the most powerful websites on the web right now. I pick my topics to answer and they’re ones that I know better than most having worked at Fox through all of our growth years and building out this large advertising network.

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AUGUST 21, 2011

While the media industry is driven by a combination of subscriptions and advertising – it’s clear that the latter plays a unique role in media. Of the $300 billion spent annually on advertising, 90% of it ($270bn) is still offline and not measurable. (1). The Impact of Mobile Phones on Advertising.

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JUNE 20, 2014

My point was that Amazon continues to dominate the web services business because AWS continues to cut prices & margin in the same way a hypermarket does to control market share. Many people (including inside of YouTube) mistook this to mean that I was negative on YouTube itself. I wasn’t. Indeed we are already seeing that online.

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MAY 23, 2012

hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web. It’s not just that we’re connected to the Internet at higher speeds and for longer; we’re actually always tethered to the web. And the future?

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DECEMBER 15, 2012

I remember when I first saw one advertised in a magazine when I was on a flight from England to the US. I was jealous watching all my friends surf the web on their iPhones. I used it to browse the web. It is stunning to think about the blind spots that market leaders can develop. Maybe Android devices are great by now.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Operates a ‘Voice and Visual Mobile Advertising Network’ called MobileAd Xchange that delivers in-call voice advertisements and follow-up visual engagements (SMS, MMS). Scans the web for a kid’s activity in realtime and sends alerts. -Co-Founders Total raised: $18.3mm.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The video was so high level and was explaining how advertising was all becoming measurable (duh) but we had no sense what his company’s role in this process was. We all know that many companies have tried to deliver targeted advertising on the web. We all know that television broadcast commercials are not targeted.

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JANUARY 19, 2015

If you’re just a content company your advantages are too small to win on the web. Your tech needs to add value to content producers, the audience and advertisers. You have to have some of your own content formats and not just be an aggregator of talent. You must invest in technology. Take for example, an eCommerce company.

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JUNE 3, 2010

But we had a great chance to talk about the recent moves that Twitter has made to “plug holes” and changing its “TOS” on advertising. Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. They sponsor TWiVC. MetaMarkets.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Social Networking in Web 1.0: By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television.

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APRIL 11, 2011

It is absolutely MVP of advertising. If you want something to be shared virally on the web it has to be short.&#. In working with brands, Jon says: “ Vary creative, try lots of things, the costs are so low, why would we put up one piece of branded content? Can we do 10 variants? I guess this video won’t go viral, then!

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OCTOBER 4, 2009

In products designed to sell directly on the web the process is no different. If you spent time at a site you might not be aware but they’ve possibly dropped a cookie on your computer and use pixel tracking to follow you around the web. With this email address you can continue to market to me even if I don’t buy today.

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JULY 1, 2010

Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. Offers virality optimization tools and A/B testing inside Facebook. a fbFund winner. Current round: $4.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I had a really fun 20-minute interview with Howard Lindzon of Stock Twits as part of a 5-part series on whether the web is dead. The topic of whether the web is dead was kicked off by Chris Andersen of Wired Magazine in this article. The Internet existed long before the World Wide Web and web browsers were created.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

This was the first in her string of web properties. Second, she sells advertising, which given her tight demographic and the big spending that comes when one is planning a wedding she can monetize really well. She learned at the kitchen table as so many spouses do.

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MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Klout measures influence on topics across the social web to find the people the world listens to; assigns a Klout score to Twitter members. Segment Two: “Deal of the Week”.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP. The power of the web increased dramatically and “Cloud Computing&# began to take a huge leap forward.

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APRIL 10, 2010

First, I believe that Seesmic has an excellent product – especially the web version of their product and that having another senior and experienced exec like Loic Le Meur would be great for Twitter. This also would give the client the upper hand in discussions with advertisers, image providers, URL shorteners, etc.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

This is especially problematic in the Web 2.0 / Freemium world where too many company build their business models around trying to build massive scale of free customers and then convert a small share to low monthly payments. Companies post the $5 / month product designed for self-service clients. Want to be the SharePoint killer?

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MARCH 1, 2011

Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. So, what Quigo would do is analyze a web page for Overture and tell them what they thought it was about.

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MARCH 11, 2011

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. His impact has even helped a small country gain admission to the United Nations.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I am on record as saying that my opinion is that Web 2.0 “And importantly Web 2.0 “And importantly Web 2.0 But less considered is the fact that the success of the Web 2.0

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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Tige and I discuss an excellent blog post written by the CEO of Hulu (Jason Kilar) on the future of advertising. Others have more time than money, and use services like SVnetwork to subject themselves to specific advertising to get access to the content they want. Monetizing content is going to be a moving target.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. And of course you have Hollywood.

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JUNE 12, 2010

Free experience is web and mobile app-based, has ads, limited skipping, and limited listening time (40 hours/month). Users: More than 280mm monthly users worldwide use its apps or see its advertising. Online DSP (demand-side platform) and ad exchange for display advertisers. Total: $41.0mm plus undisclosed Series A.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

And then they decided they wanted to be the Internet retailer of computing services so they created Amazon Web Services. Google – They have led the deflationary pressure on advertising, bringing whole industries into chaos. They are bringing deflationary economics to local advertising. This generation’s Sears Catalog.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right. These companies advertise. So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. Yesterday was a Monday. And not a pleasant one. When I first got into the industry it was 2007. was still a term being bandied about.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I originally came from the entreprise software world (for 10 years) and before that I was in mobile & telecoms (8 years) so the last three years of immersing myself in consumer Internet, digital media & advertisings has been very eye opening. I know the more experienced consumer web people will be laughing about now.

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JULY 10, 2011

Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly Referral Network – Twitter started as a way to integrate web messaging with text messaging. as an example of why I shouldn’t be investing in the Twitter ecosystem any longer. So they went after controlling the user clients.

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MAY 7, 2011

He is responsible for bringing in revenue from advertising and their careers offering. They didn’t focus on building for the web and they lost a great opportunity to win the transition to browser based applications. Jeff Atwood is the person responsible for product and user experience across all of their sites.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

So many people are stuck in the mindset that YouTube is UGC (as defined as people uploading silly videos or watching Coke & Mentos explode) and that brands don’t want to advertise on UGC. Much of web video search is bad at finding “the good stuff&# including YouTube itself. Trying searching for something on Hulu.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2017

I would see this many times of the next decade where I learned that nearly every part of the web that involved monetization was immediately gamed and arms races emerged between platforms to combat abuse and people looking for a quick buck. In fact, the platforms weren’t always so quick to crack down as many of them benefitted financially.

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