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JANUARY 28, 2012

But I would never want to do my recruiting search campaign on mobile. We only have 5 engineers, how can we do all that? I use it more than the web version (although it certainly could use some performance improvements). I need more real estate for that. I recognize there is an issue with resource scarcity. Come on, Mark.

Mobile 334

Mobile Web Software Review San Francisco 334

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APRIL 26, 2016

So if you paid $100 for a customer who converted via a Facebook ad or Google search ad (SEM) that is not your CAC. In general I find that raising large amounts of money when you haven’t figured it out ends up papering over problems more then helping solve fundamental issues in the business.

Metrics 150

Metrics Cost Acquisition Startup 150

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MARCH 3, 2018

As a Jewish person I know something about this scapegoating because it is the history of my people for 2,000+ years including the Pogroms in Eastern Europe that cause my family to escape using fake passports and wind up in South America (Colombia) in search of a better life. Each of their parents came to the United States in search of a life.

Los Angeles 174

Los Angeles Mexico United States South America 174

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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. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset.

Advertising 284

Advertising Las Vegas Affiliate RSS 284

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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).

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

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APRIL 28, 2010

It’s true that the carrier then gets their huge slice for being the billing and payment engine but the idea is that you as a website more than make up for this in terms of customer conversion. It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. Read more: TechCrunch.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

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JUNE 3, 2010

It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist). They sponsor TWiVC.

Founder 214

Founder San Diego SMS Los Angeles 214

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APRIL 17, 2012

A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. An innovator in technology, especially monetization.

Community 304

Community Los Angeles Startup Silicon Valley 304

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MARCH 17, 2010

The whole category of “sponsored search&# came from a successful LA company, Overture. (my You don’t have a pool of thousands of Google engineers to hire when they’re ready to leave the mother ship. But it’s more atypical for investors located in this market. my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor).

Silicon Valley 290

Silicon Valley Technology Los Angeles Southern California 290

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Very few investment decisions are unanimous “no brainers” – just imagine having been pitched Google in a world where you had previous search engines like Alta Vista or given the success of Yahoo!

Partner 308

Partner Term Sheet Sales Portfolio 308

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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.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles West Virginia Venture Capital Silicon Valley 150

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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.

Semantic 302

Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

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APRIL 22, 2010

But even in a focused search through recruiters I’m always looking to eliminate the job hopper. Now is the time that you need “all hands on deck.&# That awesome gal you hired in engineering has job options and she knows it. This quickly gets me to a stack of 200 resumes. Their not committing quickly to that bridge.

Hiring 392

Hiring Employee Vesting Silicon Valley 392

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MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

Stealth 285

Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. It controlled two-thirds of all Internet searches in the US and as we all knew – search was inevitably going to be the portal to finding information on the Internet. Or was it.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

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JUNE 16, 2016

I already use voice daily on Siri to send text messages while driving or search for directions and many friends are now raving about Amazon Echo (I think Father’s Day is coming up soon, Tania? The CTO, Tor Ivry , heads engineering out of Israel. Of course in recent years voice as I/O is becoming mainstream.

Jordan 150

Jordan CTO Hire Cofounder 150

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JUNE 13, 2011

in turn killed Google when it came to search. Sure, if Zuckerberg thought that check-ins were the single most important part of his future business and put 200 engineers on the problem and all of their market might, they’d squash FourSquare like a bug. And we’ll build the best discovery engine to find the best content.”.

SMS 325

SMS Non-Compete Differentiation Social Network 325

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I talked to one startup CEO who told me, “you have young engineers who want to make $200,000 or more to work for me. You don’t have a pool of thousands of Google engineers to hire when they’re ready to leave the mother ship. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check.

Silicon Valley 313

Silicon Valley Southern California Los Angeles Semantic 313

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JUNE 29, 2011

The Venture Capitalists can help these young founding teams scale their engineering departments, develop business development relationships, deal with onslaught of PR, handle executive management challenges, etc. .&# If they don’t the industry titans around them will eat their lunch. Not to mention providing the capital for growth.

Venture Capital 296

Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

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FEBRUARY 14, 2016

In the case of venture funding that shift was massive amounts of non-VC capital in search of higher returns and emulating the successes of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter plus the expectation of huge returns at Uber, Airbnb, Dropbox, etc. Usually only an “ exogenous event ” that causes a shift in the amount of supply or demand.

Valuation 150

Valuation Down Round Startup Later Stage 150

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MAY 7, 2011

Mark: Google had trouble dealing with customers and contracts because they historically were so engineering driven. While that happens sometimes, it was a challenge for Google because it frequently had trouble adapting from an engineering driven culture. What is the best reporting structure for an engineering team.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software St. Louis API 285

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JULY 10, 2011

Twitter = amazing business & marketing engine for companies. They change their search algorithm on a regular basis and as highlighted in John Battelle’s excellent (must read) book ‘ The Search ’ companies are literally put out of business with each change. How about if they knew how often I came to Vegas?

Viral 307

Viral Las Vegas Tunisia Syndicate 307

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I first learned the ropes around SEO (search engine optimization) and how for years this has been a cat-and-mouse game where people game the system (Google) through link exchanges, offshore SEO “agencies,&# widgets, algorithmically optimized content and the like that degrades the quality of search results.

Offshore 284

Offshore Widget SEO Distribution 284

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

We were able to use an open source database (Postgres), open source search (Lucene) and a host of other free components including Apache Tomcat, JBoss. It’s the input screens where we enter data or search requests. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently.

Cloud 343

Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343