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Users type a search query into their search bar and Google knows the “purchase intent” of the customer. Of course the media doesn’t do nuance well so this is an emotional topic. When you think about what makes Google so valuable?—?it’s

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

in fact we still look at many deals in the media sector whose main objective is to entertain people. We have another investment in the Ag Tech space but as I couldn’t find it in any Google Search I’m assuming neither party has announced the relationship. 6SensorLabs.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

Google had no clue that they were going to make so much money in sponsored search. They had signed up Gawker Media and the New York Post. They had signed up Glam Media and TMZ. That might even mean a totally different business or it might just be a totally different business model. We all know Flip Video cameras by Pure Digital.

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

Social media will be pervasive in the enterprise and is primarily driving by customer interactions. Every startup (every company, really) was beholden to the traffic god that was Google search. The one big concern many people had was how to constrain the total dominance of Google.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The headlines in the media are filled with that latest stats. hours are spent every day by workers searching for documents. How to Interpret Analyst Reports. Stats sell. The stats are often quoted from the latest reports. People then parrot them around like they’re fact when most of them are complete bullsh*t. I encourage it.

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APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Highland Capital did a systematic search for who could build a stand-alone contextual ad search company and met with six or seven companies including Mike. A lot of the traffic comes from search.

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APRIL 30, 2011

And as Jon Steinberg of Buzzfeed points out, the CTRs for social media banner ads are just 0.08%. We believe that the structural industry changes will continue to create big opportunities for technology firms that enable the changes in media consumption for television, radio, inbound calls, online & social media.

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JUNE 28, 2011

My bet is that they fold A9 (their search tool) into AWS and offer search-as-a-service, too. The biggest media attention in our industry went to the so-called “super angels&# during the 2009/10 timeframe and while I don’t believe there is such thing as a super angel I believe that much media attention was deserved.

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JANUARY 12, 2014

Thus you end up with Demand Media that booms until Google algorithm changes (Panda) changes send it off a cliff along with many other companies overly reliant upon one “place” and one “promotional” method. So What is This Underbelly of Which You Speak?

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AUGUST 10, 2009

One of the obvious ways is to click on “Find People&# on Twitter and search for your name. . But one of the oversights for many people is that they list their Twitter handle as their name making them very hard to find in Twitter Search. (e.g. Tags: Social Media social networking Twitter. Second is Jen Raymond.

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AUGUST 10, 2009

One of the obvious ways is to click on “Find People&# on Twitter and search for your name. Tags: Social Media social networking Twitter. How do your friends, colleagues or admirers find you on Twitter?

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MARCH 14, 2013

They are an investment bank that targets the technology & media sectors. We provide strategic advice to digital media companies in a manner that reflects how corporate development is actually done. .” They basically help companies get sold and help buyers determine which companies to buy.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh? Basic search engine research can give many clues and if people do keep a blog and you want to meet the person then many clues are obviously there. This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC. It creeps people out.

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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.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). Calls are changing but not dying.

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JULY 15, 2011

These were good packages in the pre social media world at helping figure out who was driving your traffic. to track all of my social media sharing behavior. So you ramp down your TV or print campaigns and suddenly your search volume goes down. In the social media world that tool is awe.sm. Today they’re wrong.

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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). You can listen to Om, Paul & I debate the topic in the video.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This is true whether it’s physical products or media products. Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. This is an age-old marketplace tension where leverage often determines the value captured.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It means the “ torso TV ” consumption patterns will be more important than the head or the long tail for the next era of media companies. You should only worry about this if you’re a large, traditional media company with fat margins. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. We are the media.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

We are a city unique in merging the world’s best content with digital media and technology expertise. There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum.

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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. In my mind “the stream&# changes that equation.

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DECEMBER 25, 2015

I’m a political junkie and an admirer of the news media world having studied it since college. So I went online to search for other subscription options. So I searched the app store and there is a different WaPo app for the international/national edition – the one I just paid for. I didn’t want to cheat.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Job Search – You’d mostly want to be yourself, thus we have LinkedIn. Social Capital / Earned Media – For many people keeping a blog is a way to build up “social capital” or as it’s sometimes referred to as “earned media.” Consider: 1. Image courtesy of PhotoXpress.com.

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APRIL 28, 2010

In late April 2010, VentureBeat published that Blippy credit card numbers were published on Google search: [link] followed by Blippy’s response. They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. Investors: August Capital (David Hornik) (lead) with existing investors Charles River Ventures.

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APRIL 26, 2015

I see many good video companies (media companies, mobile apps, distribution platforms, monetization platforms) but it’s often hard to distinguish good from great. And searching to see whether we’ve hit product / market fit and refining, refining, refining until we do. That is Ferris. And now for the hard work.

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JULY 10, 2010

If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). Acquired by Disney, who also invested in Playdom, and will become part of the Interactive Media Group. TechCrunch.

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APRIL 17, 2010

DataPop launched its initial Search Marketing application across Google, Microsoft and Yahoo late last year and leading marketers and agencies are seeing breakthrough results. In joining Launchpad he’s agreed to move here, which is a natural fit given their emerging set of media partners.

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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. Customer are primarily large media companies (publishers) and their media agencies. Total raised: $5.3mm Read more: TechCrunch. __. They sponsor TWiVC.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Most notably you need to understand Earned Media and how blogging, public speaking and social media play an important role in the new PR landscape. In another post I’ll talk about how PR has changed dramatically in the past 10 years or you can just read Brian Solis’s blog or buy his book on the subject.

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JULY 13, 2012

These tech companies also sell “intent” which means that when you search for “baby stroller” you’re going to get ads that are relevant to an expressed desire you’ve articulated. It’s why when search on many business types you now see phone numbers. Ads are effective. Just not to me.

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MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. The whole category of “sponsored search&# came from a successful LA company, Overture. (my Los Angeles. People either love it our hate it. my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor).

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MAY 23, 2012

There is no sector of the economy that isn’t being transformed by the online community that is now voraciously consuming media, applications, communications and buying global products. According to Google data 30% of all restaurant searches now come via mobile devices. Search for a restaurant, book a table, eat in 30 minutes.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. When I recently wrote about how excited I was about investing in “ The Digital Living Room ,&# Hulu was only mentioned in the context of how Clicker.com was a much better metaphor for content discovery and search.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

In the old publish & subscribe days of blogging people read your content when you wrote it and then it lay dormant until discovered by somebody performing a Google search. If they found it and read it things pretty much ended there. Twitter resurfaces things and can drive old content viral.

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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.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

So I guess Troy and Lady Gaga were touring in search of this product / market fit. So Troy and Lady Gaga were amongst the earliest artists that turned to social media and tech platforms to break out. They told Troy that it wasn’t a fit for the stations, it wasn’t pop music and they didn’t want to play it.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

I recently invested in a company in the media & entertainment sector (this will be announced in a couple of months) so I’ve been thinking a lot about how the industry works, why the structure has evolved the way it did, why the company I invested in has had so much success and what this all implies for the future. If so, why?

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