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Interview with Jon Waterman, Founder and CEO of Ad.net

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All of the supply we are accessing and selling to advertisers and agencies we are working with have high levels of intent. That's people looking for a particular cell phone, we're accessing keyword intent to drive people to Samsung, who is an advertiser of ours. The company was founded in 2001, as Findology Interactive Media.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. One recession later and the US advertising market is about $245 billion – but still only 10-12% is online and measurable. This form of advertising is know at CPA (cost per action).

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

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They were started in affiliation with IdeaLab and were the first-round lead in PayPal. It’s clear that many companies are going to need to understand “authority&# in the social media era. That seems to be the case for lots of AOL / Yahoo! They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d.