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JUNE 27, 2011

Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). While all your competitors are trying to copy your model, you’re already on to the next thing on your engineering team.

Early Stage 380

Early Stage Stealth Marketing Startup 380

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JANUARY 3, 2016

Other firms like Google bring massive resources to design or engineering and as as corporate VC can offer things normal VC firms can’t offer. Nearly every startup I have spoken to over the years – including some where I’m a co-investor – talks positively about the support they’ve gotten from A16Z.

Portfolio 150

Portfolio PR Partner Early Stage 150

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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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JANUARY 5, 2016

When we were acquired by Disney we had a product & engineering team of 55 people. It requires too many creative skills including writers, actors, special effects, set designers, sound engineers, editors, make-up artists, costume designers, graphic artists and on and on, which is why LA has become such a hub for online video.

Aggregator 150

Aggregator Silicon Valley Distribution Video 150

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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