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Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions? Then (Google) & Now (Apple)

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Obviously this moniker lives on in Google’s ad network, Adsense for Content, which serves as a base for a significant chunk of Google’s revenue today. With it, Google monetized via advertising not only on their own search pages, but beyond.

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Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions? Then (Google) & Now (Apple)

Genuine VC

Obviously this moniker lives on in Google’s ad network, Adsense for Content, which serves as a base for a significant chunk of Google’s revenue today. With it, Google monetized via advertising not only on their own search pages, but beyond.

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How to Find the Perfect Startup Job: Part II "Sifting Through a Sea of Companies"

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My advice: search for heat, but don’t follow - evaluate. For later-stage, it’s a high-priced financing round, tipping scales on widespread adoption, rapid hiring, or credible information on successive revenue-growth quarters. The right approach is to think broadly but network and search to ask specifically.

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Are We Entering 2013 in Crunch-Mode?

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The CB Insights report specifically which came out just before the holidays put a bright light on the supply-demand imbalance of the seed-stage companies searching for Series A capital. to become not just ramen-profitable, but sustainably profitable.

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How to Find the Perfect Startup Job: Part I "Start with 'When'"

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Yet the company hasn’t figured out product-market fit yet, hasn’t figured out its customer proposition, doesn’t have revenue… it doesn’t have traction. And that derisking is only for 12 +/- 6 months.

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Has the tide turned for YouTube/Google? (ComScore says so but doesn’t scream it) The next phase of online video

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Last week’s report by the Diffisuion Group , which suggested that while UCG accounts for 42% of streams but only 4% of revenue both now and for years to come, put a damper on how big a prize YouTube has triumphed in that space. Herein lies the problem – how do you find good video without going to YouTube?

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Has the tide turned for YouTube/Google? (ComScore says so but doesn’t scream it) The next phase of online video

Genuine VC

Last week’s report by the Diffisuion Group , which suggested that while UCG accounts for 42% of streams but only 4% of revenue both now and for years to come, put a damper on how big a prize YouTube has triumphed in that space. Herein lies the problem – how do you find good video without going to YouTube?

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