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Sponsored Poolfunding: A New Way To Think About Maximizing Advertising Dollars

YoungUpstarts

Google continues to evolve and refine its search algorithms over time, leading more businesses to turn to paid advertising models to get the exposure they seek in the multi-channel, multi-device world. You have to consider mobile advertising, social media, content marketing, pay-per-click, and let’s not forget organic SEO.

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

Both Sides of the Table

Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar. He wanted Quigo to be in the business of letting advertisers buy directly into the system.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

When he saw TripAdvisor.com start to pick up traffic, he decided to pursue an online advertising based business model with banner ads. The company agreed to be acquired by Expedia/IAC in 2004 for $210 million in cash, a huge win for all, particularly given their amazing capital efficiency: they had only raised $4 million in venture capital.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

era emerged circa 2004, it really did feel like we’d discovered some kind of utopia. Advertisers bid for our attention in online auction systems. Today with algorithms we have a secret black box. So let’s put that argument to bed once and for all: Anyone who sells advertising around content = media company.

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28 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

After taking another year to build a second email marketing startup (with Anvil running in the background), I finally decided it was time for me to commit to building my own team and Anvil grew in earnest in 2004. Firstly I had been traveling the world and running blogs online, earning money by selling advertising.

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Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

Up and Running

Next week actually Google is rolling out a new algorithm that if your website is not mobile friendly and people are searching on mobile devices, they’re actually going to deprecate your results. Peter: I feel like the industrial design guys were so happy about this kind of thing in 2002, 2004. Jonathan: Interesting. Here we are.”

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