Jan 1, 2011

Vivek Wadhwa on Google and Spam

From TechCrunch

Why We Desperately Need a New (and Better) Google

By Vivek Wadhwa

This semester, my students at the School of Information at UC Berkeley researched the VC system from the perspective of company founders. We prepared a detailed survey; randomly selected 500 companies from a venture database; and set out to contact the founders. Thanks to Reid Hoffman, we were able to get premium access to LinkedIn—which was very helpful and provided a wealth of information. But some of the founders didn’t have LinkedIn accounts, and others didn’t respond to our LinkedIn “inmails”. So I instructed my students to use Google searches to research each founder’s work history, by year, and to track him or her down in that way....

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