Genuine VC

OCTOBER 3, 2007

There has been a lot of coverage this past week about the recent upgrading of search engines' user experiences to include other content-type results. universal & blended vertical search was a hot topic at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose last month), but I have heard a lot less buzz about it in startup circles. (As

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Search San Jose SEO Engineer 100

Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Your developed skillset won’t be much different from your immediate classmates’, but it certainly will be from someone in engineering or computer science. Business schools are very insular islands, but they’re surrounded by an ocean of students in all disciplines. Recruit” your co-founders there; it’s more difficult, but that’s the point.

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Cofounder Portfolio Venture Capital Reputation 256

Genuine VC

MAY 1, 2014

And what Nick and Josh plus the team (including many with strong backgrounds from major publishing houses and traditional agencies coupled with rockstar web marketing and engineering talent) have built without a dime of outside capital has been astounding – the service is rapidly approaching 3 million members (tripling since the beginning of last year), (..)

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Cofounder Syndicate Syndication Social Network 118

Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

From the initial humble beginnings of simply selling books online, to shopping/pricing comparison engines for electronic and other feature-laden items, to this current wave of “ social commerce ” which includes local merchants’ deals propagated by friends’ recommendation-driven purchases.

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Web Portfolio Security Engineer 134

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

These are people who are probably never going to be founders, but make great VP Engineering, VP Marketing, etc for late-stage companies… and they do it successfully again and again. Learn and work with people or in a special situation. Go extremely early or very late is the right approach 90% of the time.

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Genuine VC

DECEMBER 23, 2009

The property finally came into its own earlier this decade when Google rewarded its deep linked pages when people were searching for niche subject areas on its engine. 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

Arkansas Algorithm Advertising Audience 100

Genuine VC

DECEMBER 23, 2009

The property finally came into its own earlier this decade when Google rewarded its deep linked pages when people were searching for niche subject areas on its engine. 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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Arkansas Algorithm Advertising Audience 100