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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. You could just outspend. It is to out friend.

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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero. Interim liquidity plus long-term capital gains work really, really well. With the set of cards we had at the time we sold, but what I wouldn’t give to still be working with and going long these two.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

Advertisers bid for our attention in online auction systems. Try going for a week without using a computer, smartphone, search engine, ecommerce, social media account, SMS, private message or email, to name a few services. Both income taxes and capital gains taxes. But this is different to oil or land.