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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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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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“I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.” In the “good old days”, pre- 1999, advertising dollars were largely gambled away. Paid Search – Customers which click on sponsored ads associated with search keywords fall into this category. John Wanamaker.

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Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies

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that out, by pulling together massive amounts of information from multiple sources and intelligently pricing and engaging. Founded by a number of former executives of Overture.com, DataPop is using algorithms to drive automated, paid search advertising. Retention Science is figuring. customers based on that data.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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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. Sure, you might search on Twitter.com but how many of you search in Tweetie or UberTwitter often?

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. He created GoTo.com (later renamed Overture) out of a frustration with search. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search.