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Mattermark – An Example of How We Decide to Invest

Feld Thoughts

With a slight diversion in the late 1990’s when everyone (including me) lost their mind for a few years, I’ve held to this algorithm for all my investing. This kicked me in the ass very, very hard between 2001 and 2004. Last, did I want to be a long term partner with the entrepreneurs?

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. And so you really have a log of software algorithmic stuff that is very, very difficult.”. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I The hardware trickery doesn’t scale very well.

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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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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. However, after 18 months of doing that it all came crashing down one day when Google changed their algorithm.

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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.

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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. by Angela Stringfellow, Startup Advisor for 25K Startups. The digital marketing landscape seems ever-expanding.

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

Both Sides of the Table

AdSonar’s advertising platform applied proprietary semantic algorithms to automatically serve the most relevant ads to each particular content page. They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. When Overture made a “half-hearted” attempt to acquire Quigo for $10 Million, Mike said ‘no thanks’.

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