Archive for October, 2010

Price and Value

This post is inspired by Fred Wilson’s recent post entitled, Does Price Matter.  When you purchase a product or service, it has a price tag associated with it.  That price tag is based on what the seller wants to make (cost + profit) based on what they think they could sell to their anticipated target [...]

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Video Search: A Big Opportunity

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Here’s a startup idea that I think is ripe.  Time is now.
Lets try and learn from the past and apply it to the future. Alta Vista, Excite, Yahoo!, Overture, Dogpile, InfoSpace, Metacrawler, Gopher, Ask Jeeves, Webcrawler, Bing, Google (and many others) all evolved the way that we search for information.  Gone are the [...]

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$20MM Gross Billings vs. $20MM Revenue – Mad Men Style

This post originally started out as an email/Quora exchange between me and @jonsteinberg but thought that the world would benefit from reading about this so I decide to open it up.   Note:  These are my thoughts and not necessarily representative by my employer.
Here is the initial tweet by Jon.

Last night in episode 4.11, Sterling [...]

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