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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. In fact, it is Overture 2.0.

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DataPop Gets $1.7M

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Los Angeles-based DataPop , a new paid search ad management firm started by a pair of Overture/Yahoo Search Marketing veterans, has raised $1.7M Tags: datapop venture capital search marketing advertising overture yahoo. in a Series A funding round, the company said this morning. READ MORE>>.

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San Gabriel Valley: Bitcoin Creator Not The Only Inventor In Town

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Paid search advertising , invented at Goto.com --a spinout of Idealab--which was later acquired by Yahoo for $1.63 billion and became Yahoo Search Marketing. million in venture capital into one of the biggest semiconductor companies in the world.

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Yahoo Deal With Microsoft May Hit Overture

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Yahoo and Microsoft said that Yahoo will use the technology behind Microsoft's Bing search engine to power all of the web search aspects of its web site, with Yahoo taking over premium search advertising sales for Microsoft. Tags: technology advertising engine search microsoft overture yahoo.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

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Interview with Dan LeBlanc, CEO and Co-founder, Daasity

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in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. So, we decided that if we wanted to try to tackle this as an end-to-end solution, we needed to maintain our competitive edge, and we needed to raise capital to hire staff.

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Interview with Robert Blatt, MomentFeed

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That allowed us to bring in a new investor, Level Equity, and we raised a little over $16M in capital to scale the business. There are hundreds and thousands of representation of companies on Facebook, Google, Apple, and Yelp, in paid search and through social experiences. So what does your customer look like nowadays? ,p>

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