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Interview With Mike Mothner, Wpromote On Growth, Acquisitions

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Last week El Segundo-based Wpromote acquired fellow marketing agency Standing Dog, in a deal which brings the company to 260 employees, and continues to grow the company. Our clients are everyone from fast growing, freshly funded startups, to the Fortune 100. Those are the clients who help us growth ourselves.

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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 in a Series A funding round, the company said this morning. Tags: datapop venture capital search marketing advertising overture yahoo. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Robert Blatt, MomentFeed

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funding led by Level Equity. It's been quite a few years since we spoke with the company. What I was looking for, was a place where I could create a company which truly could be the best place that employees had ever worked, to become the best partner that any of our clients had. What is MomentFeed up to nowadays?

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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. We spoke with CEO and co-founder Dan LeBlanc , a veteran of ProFlowers and FTD, on how he started the company and he problem the startup is solving for direct to consumer brands.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

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You took the risk to start your company. But I’m working on a large team of people trying to figure out how to make micro improvements to a paid-search algorithm. We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. I worked with a startup CEO who decided he wanted to sell his company. The Mind of the Founder.

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

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” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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Interview with Julie Novack, PartySlate

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She told us about why so many Los Angeles investors are supporting the company and gave us an overview of what PartySlate is all about. I tapped my co-founder, John Haro, who I worked for at Agency.com, and at another mobile marketing company, and we talked about the idea, ideated, and I brought him on as co-founder.