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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

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You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Company generates revenue via premium accounts, targeted ads and transaction commission. Founded by Matt Rutledge in 2004 and based in Dallas. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

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That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). and we ultimately sold when we hit $14 million and had more than $30 million in backlog revenue.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

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Internet 1.0. It was difficult to conceive how important the internet would be to our lives back in the mid 1990s. era emerged circa 2004, it really did feel like we’d discovered some kind of utopia. How could anyone ever lie again if we could just check it out on the internet and find out the truth! But when the web 2.0