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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure.

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Interview with Noah Auerhahn, Extrabux

socalTECH

We wrote up a business plan, and won a USC business plan competition, which allowed us to get funding from the University and raise venture capital we needed to begin development on the plan. Jeff's father is an entrepreneur, and I wanted to go down the entrepreneurial path, so we had this early concept for a cash back and coupon web site.

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How To Make Money Like Facebook With Online Ads

Startup Professionals Musings

When Facebook did it a few years ago, the company used more than $100 million in venture capital funding before it became profitable. This model, called pay per click (PPC), is the one most commonly offered to entrepreneurs. For the advertiser, this is the cost-per-click (CPC) model.

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Docstoc's Jason Nazar Talks About DocStore

socalTECH

We want to make sure the marketplace is for professional content, so we screen to make sure the seller is a professional or small business owner, or a startup or entrepreneur. We've scaled to revenue very quickly, and we're running a really capital efficient business. Part of that is transition into paid content.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

socalTECH

That will primarily be focused on ad sponsorships, and selling advertising via lead generation, CPC, white papers, and so on, to generate revenue. My career in the venture startup world started in about 1984--I'm not a completely young guy--and I actually did about ten years in venture capital. Robert Flynn: Yes.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

As Marketing Guru Guy Gabriel of Idea Engineering points out in Max Brand , viral marketing has made many an entrepreneur terminally ill. Google’s market capitalization is in the stratosphere for a reason – keyword search advertising is highly effective. Tags: Entrepreneur Strategic Planning The Fringe. Copyright © 2007-9 by J.

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Africa’s Largest and Fastest Growing Social Network | Interview with LAGbook’s Chidi Nwaogu

Tech Zulu Event

As a young African entrepreneur with little funding, you may want to meet new people on social networks that may help in the growth and development of your new internet start-up. We also raised fund for CPC advertising, which doubled sign-ups. People are prohibited to add other social network users they do not know.