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The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

But they make the overwhelming majority of their money from advertising. They are selling audiences to advertisers. Whenever I talk about advertising people comment how much everybody hates ads. The customer are advertising agencies and brands themselves. But What About Mobile? Ads are effective. Believe me.

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Geofencing Advertising vs. Traditional Advertising: A Comparison

The Startup Magazine

And when it comes to advertising, two approaches have gained prominence: geofencing advertising and traditional advertising. Defining Geofencing Advertising Geofencing advertising is a targeted marketing strategy that uses GPS or RFID technology to create virtual boundaries around specific geographic locations.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web. Mobility really changes everything. According to Google data 30% of all restaurant searches now come via mobile devices. And the future?

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Entrepreneurs Are Needed To Make Web Searches Smarter

Startup Professionals Musings

In today’s mobile hardware environment, that means able to set up meetings, convert text messages to voice, find contact information quickly, and search the Web intelligently for outside info. I believe the current major drive to mobile devices and apps has slowed the progress toward this new semantic environment, but it’s coming.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

And while the App Internet is currently more powerful than the Mobile Internet it has fundamental flaws. In other words, our mobile devices are all powerful and the network that they connect into sucks. Because the mobile devices had a series of new features for which mobile browsers were not optimized. Apple had a store.

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The Semantic Web Opens a New Age for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

In today’s mobile hardware environment, that means able to set up meetings, convert text messages to voice, find contact information quickly, and search the Web intelligently for outside info. I believe the current major drive to mobile devices and apps has slowed the progress toward this new semantic environment, but it’s coming.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. Ecommerce has transcended merely shipping a box to your home — it’s about leveraging mobile plus the internet to create an elegant purchasing experience previously unavailable.