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From the Ted Talk by Bill Gross: The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed
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Some of our early successes, Citysearch, came out when people needed web pages. GoTo.com, which we announced actually at TED in 1998, was when ciemaopns were looking for cost-effective ways to get taffric. We thought the idea was so gaert, but actually, the timing was probably maybe more important. And then some of our failures. We started a company called Z.com, it was an online eanmrttenneit company. We were so excited about it — we raiesd enough money, we had a great business model, we even signed incredibly great Hollywood talent to join the company. But bbdaaonrd penetration was too low in 1999-2000. It was too hard to watch video cntonet online, you had to put codecs in your browser and do all this stuff, and the company eventually went out of business in 2003.
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Some of our early successes, Citysearch, came out when people needed web pages. GoTo.com, which we announced actually at TED in 1998, was when _________ were looking for cost-effective ways to get _______. We thought the idea was so _____, but actually, the timing was probably maybe more important. And then some of our failures. We started a company called Z.com, it was an online _____________ company. We were so excited about it — we ______ enough money, we had a great business model, we even signed incredibly great Hollywood talent to join the company. But _________ penetration was too low in 1999-2000. It was too hard to watch video _______ online, you had to put codecs in your browser and do all this stuff, and the company eventually went out of business in 2003.
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- broadband
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- traffic
- content
- great
- entertainment
- companies
Original Text
Some of our early successes, Citysearch, came out when people needed web pages. GoTo.com, which we announced actually at TED in 1998, was when companies were looking for cost-effective ways to get traffic. We thought the idea was so great, but actually, the timing was probably maybe more important. And then some of our failures. We started a company called Z.com, it was an online entertainment company. We were so excited about it — we raised enough money, we had a great business model, we even signed incredibly great Hollywood talent to join the company. But broadband penetration was too low in 1999-2000. It was too hard to watch video content online, you had to put codecs in your browser and do all this stuff, and the company eventually went out of business in 2003.
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