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JANUARY 22, 2014

Think of web vs. mobile. 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. You could look for a VC who has huge wins under his or her belt and therefore has a formula for success. Traditional software vs. SaaS. EQ and Team Leadership?

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JANUARY 16, 2010

Your measurements are automatically sent via wi-fi to the cloud and stored in a password protected portal viewed on the web or on your iPhone. 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.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

For start, there are many types of businesses that are large or complex “considered purchases” that have higher close rates over the phone than on a web form. Users type a search query into their search bar and Google knows the “purchase intent” of the customer. But here’s the big “aha.”

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JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.

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JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Real-time search engine. Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites.

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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. You need to make it an effort by researching on the web and going and doing 50 coffee meetings with people.

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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 started to launch new products that helped web site owners better load applications from third-party vendors and they started experimenting with totally new ad models that drove the daily revenue up by 7x in less than 30 days.

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APRIL 30, 2011

They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. I’m sure it probably resonants with how most of you read the web. The idea is that if I can serve you an ad for a function that you already need to perform on the web anyways – a captcha – with a brand message I can drive recall.

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JANUARY 27, 2013

” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) Build Your Search History. So skipping this story is skipping your chance and building a broader search profile and legitimacy. Kind of obvious. Which leads to my last point. Frankly, every VC’s, too.

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JULY 25, 2010

But what is at play with Reid is another principle called “authority.&# Again, even though VCs are populated by Stanford & Harvard MBAs who all seemed to graduate near the tops of their classes – we’re all in search of authorities we trust to help guide our decisions. I see all the deals come together.

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APRIL 4, 2011

If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? You can find out how to more cost effectively buy search terms (i.e. Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. Usually you have a catch-all bucket for “direct” or similar that often came through PR or word-of-mouth. So if you convert 12.5%

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MAY 23, 2012

hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web. It’s not just that we’re connected to the Internet at higher speeds and for longer; we’re actually always tethered to the web. And the future?

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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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APRIL 8, 2010

And SEO juice of sites with no value makes searching for real product feedback suck. Plus, maybe they’ve got some mega Facebook deal in the works? Gdgt (l ed by Spark, True Ventures ) – Love the idea. People spent a ton of time researching which gadgets to buy. sites still dominate. Burstly ( Led by … me! -

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MARCH 7, 2011

I’m too busy this week to find all the links for you but a quick Google or TechCrunch search should reveal many. But I don’t want it becoming the web. I want it to be a part of the web. TechCrunch switched from Disqus to Facebook. This had generated a ton of posts both for and against. So should I switch?

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. It seemed that the main discovery mechanism was the “blog roll&# that everybody kept. And covered we did. Folksonomy.

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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. There are three “megatrends” as he puts it – real time data, the social web and flash marketing. Read more: TechCrunch. Wildfire Interactive. Read more: TechCrunch.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Provides publishers innovative site-search tools that enhance user engagement ( icanhazcheeseburger.com and Fred Wilson’s blog avc.com use Lijit as does Feld.com [but he's an investor]). Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Scans the web for a kid’s activity in realtime and sends alerts. -Co-Founders

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APRIL 17, 2010

Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. DataPop launched its initial Search Marketing application across Google, Microsoft and Yahoo late last year and leading marketers and agencies are seeing breakthrough results. with the clips.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! As you traveled the web and found stuff you liked you could “bookmark&# it (sound familiar) so that you could find it again. It’s at the core of what Delicious was.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Do a web search to find companies that they didn’t give you. One small hack – go to LinkedIn and do a search for the company name. Make sure to call the companies in that VCs portfolio that didn’t succeed. Ask the CEO’s about the VC when the chips were down. Find those companies and find out the truth.

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JUNE 4, 2013

But the search for product / market fit has been around in various form for a long time. Shallow and superficial and racing from segment to segment in search of some take up has never been a strong strategic plan for me. In Steve’s case it is “going in search of a business model.” Spend it wisely.

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

Do a web search to find companies that they didn’t give you. There are online resources that can help – One small hack – go to LinkedIn and do a search for the company name. Make sure to call the companies in that VCs portfolio that didn’t succeed. Often ones that you didn’t know even existed.

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JULY 15, 2011

Most web publishers measure where their traffic is coming from using an analytics package such as Google Analytics, Omniture or Core Metrics. So you ramp down your TV or print campaigns and suddenly your search volume goes down. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch (this version is slightly different). They did not.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. Social Networking in Web 1.0: By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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JUNE 3, 2010

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. Provider of real-time data and predictive analytics for web site publishers.

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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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APRIL 17, 2012

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

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APRIL 27, 2014

Web Summit. If you say yes to every inbound meeting you don’t have the time to search out the harder-to-find, crazier ideas that are often lurking around university research projects or getting out to meet senior executives at tech companies to find out whom they’re partnering with. And there’s conferences.

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MARCH 11, 2011

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. He invented the category of sponsored search. He created GoTo.com (later renamed Overture) out of a frustration with search. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. The success of the iPhone – The success of the iPhone and more importantly the App Store has led to an increase in early-stage VC fundings that mirror the Web 2.0

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″ One idea I’ve been searching for is a platform that enables the creation of serialized programs with audience participation. Filmaka is the creation of Deepak Nayar who is the producer of films such as Buena Vista Social Club and Bend it Like Beckham.

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MAY 5, 2011

But he has helped put Boulder on the consciousness of so many young, aspiring entrepreneurs in search of somewhere other than the San Francisco Bay Area to work & live. I re-connected with Andy Liu the founder & CEO of BuddyTV – the largest destination for social TV enthusiasts on the web.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We showed the journalist exact examples across 5 or 6 of the most popular web properties on the Internet. But it wasn’t even on the home page of the online edition so you’d have to search for it or click into deep links to know it was there. So I go search for the article to see what all of the fuss is about.

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JUNE 13, 2011

in turn killed Google when it came to search. Skype is an amazing web company. And whenever you see closed systems all of the major players not invited inside the velvet rope will search for technology partners. Just like Microsoft stopped AOL from winning the early online wars. And AOL stopped Yahoo! billion messages between 8.2

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. In our regions? Fuggetaboutit – show me the money ! In Los Angeles you have large industries in garment industry, defense, games (both physical like Mattel and virtual like Activision) and music.

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OCTOBER 6, 2012

John laid into a well-honed thesis on why the social web needed a “Page Rank” equivalent for people. It is company 500px who has a beautiful product and a burgeoning community on the iPad and web. 1:08:00 Doing a sample search on Bottlenose. Nobody had any sound logic on why Klout would be successful.

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