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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

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Often I’ll get some people look at me like, “really?&# &# It’s true. It’s irony. Here’s how I learned my lesson: I started my life as a consultant. I was leading the analysis with a team of 14 people: 12 Japanese, 1 German and 1 Turk. of all statistics are made up.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. The CTR’s are performing very well: 1-3.5% I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post.

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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving

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That’s a fact. It’s a great one about entrepreneurship, friendship and the collaborative economy that is helping families in need across the world. It’s the one time per year that my entire family decompresses and spends high-quality time together under one roof. “Oh s**t.” The Background.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. The fact that today’s Internet bubble does not represent all companies does not disprove its existence. That’s fine. I believe that.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. It’s an interesting question and many people are trying to figure this out now. I remember in the mid-90’s when banner advertising started. It’s for all of us. My firm was an early investor in Overture (then called GoTo.com) who created this category.

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What We Must Learn from Asia

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This month’s presentation was truly mind boggling so I wanted to be sure to share the entire presentation with all of you. My take aways are below: 1. Film innovation – If Benjamin’s analysis is right – even many of our most successful films have been adaptations from Asian films. slide 29).

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Do you Suffer from the Urgency Addiction? It’s More Common Than you Think

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Here’s what I learned. It’s as good as it gets in personal productivity / life reflection. If I asked you whether you want to spend your time on things that are important or unimportant it’s a no-brainer answer. That’s why productivity wasn’t tough for me as a CEO. So I always performed.