Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. What was Bill Gross’s heretical idea as portrayed to the tech elite? LA in fact has more entrepreneurs as a percentage of its population than anywhere else in the country. “There’s something going on in LA.”
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 16, 2010
What's the story behind the idea--where did it come from, and how did you decide to present it at the business plan competition? 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. Noah Auerhahn: We just had too much free time at USC.
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 21, 2010
By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Thus, we click! And it turns out that we click a lot.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 15, 2010
They can sell those ads on a CPM, CPC, or CPA basis. The idea there is to grow our exchange in Japan, which is the second largest advertising market in the world. I think you are seeing a rapid cycle of innovation, with mid-size companies making lots of progress and bringing new products and ideas to market.
socalTECH
MARCH 4, 2010
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. That leads to more people with ideas, and people on the technology side not knowing how to find and connect with business people.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 1, 2011
That will primarily be focused on ad sponsorships, and selling advertising via lead generation, CPC, white papers, and so on, to generate revenue. In 2005, YouTube exploded onto the scene, and I took the ideas we had been working on and started--along with J.D. How does the aggregation work--are you working with those publishers?
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
Then I (Chidi) brainstormed on a little yet brilliant idea to verify who’s right and not. But we cannot deny the fact that some people are shy or uncomfortable to walk up to others and introduce themselves or business ideas. This idea is prohibited by the policy of some social networks to add only the people you know.
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