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Shut Up and Invest? Investors Weighing in on Politics

This is going to be BIG.

They want an investor who works from a set of shared values and not purely on a set of economic algorithms—because this is a people business highly short on data to make anyone’s algorithm work that well anyway. Plus—the values of today’s innovators are getting more and more progressive everyday.

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Why AOL's "About.com 2.0" strategy will work. for a while

Genuine VC

About.com’s of earlier this decade: Content generation will be driven by market mechanisms, not by the whims of guides like Sarah in Arkansas. A metric-driven approach to content generation matches the algorithmic judgment of search engines. Disparate brands for consumers with a single brand for advertisers.

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Why AOL's "About.com 2.0" strategy will work. for a while

Genuine VC

About.com’s of earlier this decade: Content generation will be driven by market mechanisms, not by the whims of guides like Sarah in Arkansas. A metric-driven approach to content generation matches the algorithmic judgment of search engines. Disparate brands for consumers with a single brand for advertisers.

Arkansas 100