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Rebranding Should Be Driven By Growth, Not Desperation

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percent of the domestic market in 2006 but watched that slip to 8.4 In the course of dominating their initial direct response market, a number of enterprise-level advertisers began using Invoca''s unique marketing platform in ways the company had not foreseen. percent in September because of Android and Apple.".

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Mindshare LA Brings the Power of “Play” to Santa Monica

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In 2006, Douglas Campbell started Mindshare LA out of the downtown art colony The Brewery. Campbell quickly formed a thriving community he calls “Mindshaians” who flocked to attend his various salons, workshops, screenings, and cultural outings. “In

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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PhotoPoll is our first app to push live, and now we're working on our second app, AdTile, which is a mobile advertising solution for applications and mobile software. I then went back to Europe to create a company called Fruugo, which was a big startup back in the day, in 2006 in Europe. We started dating, and actually got married.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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Interview with Vince Bianco, Newsforce

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Vince Bianco: The company has been around since 2006, and we started by launching an SEO tool for press releases for professionals. We also show you screen shots and everything of the search result pages. They have lost lots of advertising and subscription revenue, because you can get news online, and it's free.

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Gene Dolgoff's 3D Vision: Using Crowdfunding To Turn the World 3D

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It was so much more advanced than back in 1960's, and we started selling posters in 3D for advertising. By late 2005 and 2006, we saw the return of 3D movies, made possible by the digital projectors. After I left, I started working on a lot of different areas, and one of those was 3D, lenticular printing.

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Interview with Sherry Gunther, Masher Media

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In 2005/2006, I really saw that the trend was shifting from television to the Internet. As I watched my kids' eyeballs move over, as well as looked at the research data and advertising data which saw TV's share shrinking, I started looking into new media. I found the process incredibly great.

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