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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Datapop (www.datapop.com) announced a Series A funding for the startup, which is developing search advertising products which better tune ads to improve click throughs. The company's founders are previously from Overture and Yahoo! We are ex-Overture and Yahoo! Search Marketing.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2011

Messenger : Jason Lehmbeck , Co-Founder and CEO of DataPop , former VP of Emerging Ad Products at Overture Services and Yahoo! You guys did a lot of self-funding before you approached the venture capital community. The Core team had worked together at Yahoo! We tried to solve their problems while we were at Yahoo!,

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MAY 10, 2012

Los Angeles-based online advertising firm Rubicon Project is significantly boosting its executive ranks today, saying that it has named a new CTO, General Counsel, and SVP of Product Management to the firm. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” Solutions that may be viewed as “nice to have” or “satisfies a higher-level need” won’t get funded. Design a product or service that you can sell.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal has launched a new, online marketplace for local advertising, saying Monday that it has created a new "ReachLocal Xchange" platform which will allow websites to tap into local advertisers. Tags: reachlocal online advertising marketplace. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

And, many of the presenting companies received sizable funding commitments and offers of ongoing help. Matt Stodder is Co-Director of Startup Boost Los Angeles , an intensive program helps qualified early stage companies prepare for raising seed funds or apply for accelerator programs. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

The new site--funded by Forbes Media--said it is looking to create a "new visual discovery experience" for consumers. The advertising-driven site said it was founded by Yahoo! FlipGloss said it is funded by Forbes Media, and received an undisclosed funding round in March of 2008. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Woodland Hills-based FatTail, a developer of online advertising management software, announced this morning that it has raised $3M in a Serie A financing round led by Velocity Interactive Group. According to FatTail, Ted Meisel, former CEO of Overture and president of Yahoo! Search Marketing also participated in the funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2012

And they invest n select VC funds. 3:00 You were running corporate development for Yahoo before this? 6:30 Do you disclose which funds you’ve invested in? 25:00 How should entrepreneurs approach you for funding? 36:00 Andrew: Display advertising has a real problem. That they own Reddit?

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NOVEMBER 19, 2008

ReachLocal, which provides services that help local businesses buy search engine advertising, said it has launched ReachLocal UK Ltd., ReachLocal's paid search ads are placed in Google, Yahoo!, The firm is venture backed by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Rho Ventures and Galleon Crossover Fund. READ MORE>>

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has hired a new executive to head up the firm's advertising sales, the firm disclosed Tuesday. Demand Media has appointed George Stewart as the company's Executive Vice President of Advertising Sales, heading up sales for all of the company's sales channels. READ MORE>>

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

The venture-backed firm, which helps small and medium sized businesses place Internet advertising, said that its first Canadian location will cater to local businesses in the Greater Toronto area. ReachLocal helps businesses place pay-per-click and other ads through Google, Yahoo, MSN, and others. READ MORE>>

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

He had spent many years at Yahoo! during the better days and we had lots of discussions / debates about Yahoo!’s The video was so high level and was explaining how advertising was all becoming measurable (duh) but we had no sense what his company’s role in this process was. ’s strategy and missteps.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2010

funding round. The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. What's the story behind the funding? Jeff Green: To fully understand what we're up to, you need to understand the evolution of online advertising.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

And, how do programs like YouTube's recent push to help fund original content channels on the site helping? We've also got the partnership with Google/YouTube, the partnership with Yahoo Rivals, and we also partner with USA Today and Gannett on their digital properties. The other obvious piece for us is distribution with television.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising? Advertising is great. was the 2-way web.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” Solutions that may be viewed as “nice to have” or “satisfies a higher-level need” won’t get funded. Design a product or service that you can sell.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 21, 2012

Speakers will introduce their new shows debuting this spring, including shows that were pitched at the NewFronts, YouTube-funded shows and other original shows. We’ll discuss how content studios are monetizing this content via advertising, sponsorship, show integration and more. Scheduled Speakers Include. davidbeebe @FBWMedia.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

I've always felt that financial vertical is the one vertical--with Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, Reuters, and First Data--where Twitter should be involved in. I also have a hedge fund and am a partner in fund called Social Leverage making early stage investments. It's something I've done since 2000, and not something I've given up.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

I had early success working in-house with Matt Coffin at LowerMyBills in 2005, and then I was brought on by Yahoo to build out the Yahoo Publisher Network Team. We've used the profits from NeoHire for funding. Josh Stomel: How we make money right now is advertising revenue.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

But more importantly we talked in the video about fund raising and how Scott has become so efficient at it. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies. Currently has 1.8mm users and adding about 15,000 users/day.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

Earlier this month, Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue (www.ringrevenue.com) announced that it had raised a round of venture funding. It enables them to allow advertisers to run campaigns through affiliates, where you can drive calls and not just clicks. There is 300 billion or so spent on advertising in the U.S.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” Solutions that may be viewed as “nice to have” or “satisfies a higher-level need” won’t get funded. Design a product or service that you can sell.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” Solutions that may be viewed as “nice to have” or “satisfies a higher-level need” won’t get funded. Design a product or service that you can sell.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

billion to Yahoo! Especially when he’s surrounded by Danny Rimer (who funded Skype, MySQL, Last.FM I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. PLUS RELATED FUNDING …. It offers Internet radio targeted advertising and is growing really well. Overture sold for $1.6

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

We pull your Yahoo, business accounts, Gmail, and other accounts and pull them into Orgoo. There's a lot of big guys in this business --Google, Yahoo, etc.--how People are on GTalk, Yahoo, AOL--and to keep up with them all you need an interoperable solution. Finally, how are you funded? how do you compete? READ MORE>>

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” Solutions that may be viewed as “nice to have” or “satisfies a higher-level need” won’t get funded. Design a product or service that you can sell.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

This morning, Woodland Hills-based FatTail (www.fattail.com) announced a venture round from Velocity Interactive Group for its software for managing online advertising. billion under management, in a number of funds, and we have been investing for the last year or two out of our existing $300 million fund. Our firm has about 1.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”. the funding and market coverage. They were started in affiliation with IdeaLab and were the first-round lead in PayPal. LivingSocial. eCommerce is hot again! The race is on!

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. Alex Benzer: I was a computer kid in high school, though I thought I'd go into advertising. We're fortunate we've been able to fund that from SocialEngine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2010

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” Solutions that may be viewed as “nice to have” or “satisfies a higher-level need” won’t get funded. Design a product or service that you can sell.

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