2003 Advertising Networking Search 
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
A lot of people ask me what it was like raising the Series A round for LinkedIn back in 2003. I thought I’d revisit it and share the story… First, you have to rewind mentally to early 2003. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today.
Both Sides of the Table
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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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 31, 2011
Marketing, advertising, positioning — they’re all forms of persuasive writing, just like an op-ed in the New York Times. You don’t know what keywords they’re searching for. But this was 2003 when AdWords was new. click and competed with no other advertisers. What’s the answer?
reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
This gave me an idea: I could help many more entrepreneurs by making the deck available not just to the Greylock network of entrepreneurs, but to everyone. Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. the evolution of LinkedIn as a company.
Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 21, 2011
Of late, however, it looks like they just might be getting their local strategy together and marshaling a suite new features combined with existing assets to put themselves in position to take a giant leap in the local reviews, local offers, and local social games to go with their strong local search position. and CityPages.
Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 14, 2011
Today Google added an interesting twist to Google Maps searches called Descriptive Terms that injects another dynamic – search optimized reviews. Google has started indexing local search results with phrases that accompany things like reviews. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. All rights reserved.
mashable.com
JULY 18, 2012
The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. But there’s also the satellite-mapping company Keyhole, which in 2003 became the seed that sprouted Google Maps. Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share.
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