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AUGUST 14, 2012

All of the Asana feedback was “we love Asana” (try searching “@msuster asana” in Twitter and you’ll see … at least for the next day or so) and similar for Trello (“@msuster trello”). For fans of Trello they seemed to be like me – visual thinkers in search of simplicity.

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JANUARY 25, 2015

” I have seen many companies move rapidly up-and-to-the-right by Google search rankings only to crash when they rewrite the algorithm or start competing by offering the same service directly on the SERP. Will we win the battle for share-of-mind every time they pick up their phone or log into their computers?”

Product 150

Product B2B Warrant Technical Review 150

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JULY 9, 2013

If they don’t want to share that information with you then they’re not your champion and you must continue in search of one in order to be worth investing resources in this account. Suspects & prospects are often in search of success stories from their peers to hear how they’re improving internal operations.

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Customer PR Marketing Technical Review 324

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Internet EC2 297

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APRIL 6, 2014

Another strategy I have used is to go to LinkedIn and search through people who used to work for the company as a way of surfacing up old names of people either to be references or to suggest references. Finally, if the person has some degree of seniority you should definitely make off-list references from general people in the community.

Technical Review 302

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Like many of you, though, I’m always struggling with productivity drains and in search of improvements. I love Gmail for two reasons 1) threaded conversation (I know – it takes getting used to) and 2) search. So the obvious key to this is search. At scale this is a very important time saving.

Product 280

Product Technical Review Email Search 280

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

Users type a search query into their search bar and Google knows the “purchase intent” of the customer. When you think about what makes Google so valuable?—?it’s

IP 223

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

They’re not in search of price fixing or collusion, they’re in search of diligence information about the company. To be crystal clear – I think AngelList is awesome and I have NEVER heard Nivi or Naval ever reveal or discuss pricing information. My assertion was that information flows outside of their process.

Entrepreneur 292

Entrepreneur Technical Review Stealth Valuation 292

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JANUARY 16, 2010

I got responses back for DailyBurn, The Daily Plate and LoseIt (quick aside: on Twitter Bryce Roberts had send me the link to LoseIt but I couldn’t remember the name so I searched Twitter. Couldn’t find it through search and was getting frustrated. So I signed into CoTweet where they store old Tweets.

Technical Review 278

Technical Review Software Review Alabama Silicon Valley 278

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JUNE 21, 2014

In fact, just a short Google search reveals that I’ve referred to him frequently through the years. Nearly any funny startup story I’ve ever told about the “early days” of startup land (and many stories I’ve saved for my book) somehow involve Stuart. The stories still to be told?:

CTO Hire 320

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DECEMBER 6, 2013

I typed in my brothers zip code and ton of houses popped up in his area and I was able to search out on a map view. When I realized 6 members of our vacation crew might be SOL and my own kids devastated that they wouldn’t see their cousins this year I sprang into action. I don’t own dogs so I wasn’t already a user.

San Diego 344

San Diego Technical Review Seed Capital Sacramento 344

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

Every startup (every company, really) was beholden to the traffic god that was Google search. One change in Google’s algorithm and whole businesses could be wiped out as chronicled in this excellent book by John Battelle called The Search. The one big concern many people had was how to constrain the total dominance of Google.

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JANUARY 11, 2014

Traders call this “arb” (arbitrage) and anyone who knows anything about arb knows that it only lasts for short periods of time until others discover the game and you must go in search of your next cost-effective channel.

Technical Review 384

Technical Review Hockey Stick SEM Channel 384

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APRIL 23, 2011

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. Do you think the impact of social media is effecting Google’s search business? (42:00 The contextual ad market was attractive.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

should have come out early and say, “we lost the search war to Google but we still have a have a great media business and we’re going to focus on that.&# Netflix can stop having to answer questions about its DVD business. A note for industry. I argued ages ago that Yahoo! They dithered for years.

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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 22, 2014

Simply put – I’d be in search of a VC who had an intuitive sense of my product, my customers, my organizational issues, my competitors, etc. I would think it would be a big f **g nightmare to have a VC on my board who simply doesn’t get what I do and yet my perception is this happens often. EQ and Team Leadership?

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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. I’m surprised at the number of people who aren’t good at tracking down relationships in social networks.

Silicon Valley 291

Silicon Valley Ireland Technical Review Valuation 291

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JANUARY 28, 2012

But I would never want to do my recruiting search campaign on mobile. I’m digging LinkedIn’s new mobile product. 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.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

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. He simply is inspirational as an entrepreneur, an inventor and as somebody who wants to make a difference in the world.

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Technical Review America Partner United States 362

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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. How do your friends, colleagues or admirers find you on Twitter?

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Social Network Social Media Search Naming 216

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JUNE 13, 2013

Steve Blank calls this “ customer development ” in which you built an initial product that is in search of “product / market fit.” If you make headway don’t be so naïve as to think your prospect – however friendly they are to you – won’t go out and search for alternate solutions. They now know they have a problem!

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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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Advertising Las Vegas Affiliate RSS 284

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FEBRUARY 14, 2010

hours are spent every day by workers searching for documents. It becomes folklore. 13% of GDP is construction – the largest industry. 40% of costs are labor, 40% are materials and 20% are overheads. 23% of all costs are inefficient. 18% of all errors come from people using the wrong documents. I encourage it.

Investment Bankers 415

Investment Bankers Mobile Software Review Japan 415

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JANUARY 5, 2010

So we as VCs search for entrepreneurs/founders who have the whole package or as much of it as possible. Having street smarts with no inspirational ability to build teams can yield a great small business but will be difficult to scale into a large VC-backed business. Few people have it.

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OCTOBER 31, 2010

Suspects & prospects are often in search of success stories from their peers to hear how they’re improving internal operations. Customer Events – It is far easier to get potential customers interested in your products when they hear actual customers talking about your products and how they are using them.

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Sales PR Forecast Technical Review 286

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The talent benefits as well by being clustered as newer acts can be discovered by fans who are searching for more familiar content. Think of the Internet, short-formate equivalent of Discovery, NatGeo, E! A laudable goal over time should be to get O&O to 20%.

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Video Technical Review Distribution Aggregator 339

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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. The first mistake that mostly only rookies make is to measure the CAC by looking at the attributable marketing costs of acquiring a user.

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JUNE 30, 2013

Big deals that involve multiple people deciding seldom go your way without a champion so you need to be in search of yours to win the account and you need to constantly test whether somebody is your champion or not. If a person is holding back on you need to go in search of a champion in order to win the campaign.

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JANUARY 27, 2013

Build Your Search History. So skipping this story is skipping your chance and building a broader search profile and legitimacy. And that means the first thing they’ll do when you, your PR firm or your VC tries to introduce you is to Google you. Kind of obvious. Which leads to my last point. Frankly, every VC’s, too.

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JANUARY 12, 2014

You nail one promotional method in one place and ride the growth but are in constant testing mode for how your feature set needs to get better at driving continued use of your product and viral adoption across multiple channels while searching for your next pocket of growth. So What is This Underbelly of Which You Speak?

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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. Who knows?

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Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

If you started every project assuming you really didn’t know the answers and if you were in search of experts who probably had more experience than you, the chances are you would expand your consideration set when you chose how to tackle each problem. That’s part of the value we provide.

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Entrepreneur Non-Compete Operations Search 337

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MARCH 15, 2014

It was hardly Secret that I love my wife but on Valentine’s Day I posted pictures of flowers I bought her and said that I didn’t miss the days of being out at nightclubs in search of love. I have a very happy marriage and family life – not exactly juicy Secret material.

Technical Review 329

Technical Review Reputation Naming Internet 329

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MARCH 14, 2013

It’s why every major mobile app developer gears up for the holiday season by trying to be as high as possible on the charts because when the newbies come searching for popular apps in the app stores you get a huge additional bump if you’re already high in the charts.

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Campaign Marketing Widget Analytics 389

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two two founders in a garage?—?(HP HP Style) are dead.

Pre-Money Valuation 471

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Venture Capital Early Stage 471

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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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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225