Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2011

If challenged, the founder usually cites the Facebook business model (free service to users, revenue from ads), but forgets that Facebook has had several hundred million in funding, and has been profitable only in the last two years. Don’t count on that to fund your startup. For advertisers, this is called cost per click (CPC).

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Advertising CPC Funding Startup 90

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We talked with Noah about how the company grew out of a business plan competition at the University of Southern California, his recent funding from the Maverick Angels, as well as how the firm hopes to stand out among a crowded list of comparison shopping sites. Noah, thanks for the interview.

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USC CPC Sites Startup 207

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2012

If challenged, the founder usually cites the Facebook business model (free service to users, revenue from ads), but forgets that Facebook has had several hundred million in funding, and has been profitable only in the last couple of years. Don’t count on that to fund your startup. For advertisers, this is called cost per click (CPC).

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CPC PPC Startup Advertising 106

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. For starters – the team is exactly what I look for when I’m looking to fund entrepreneurs.

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Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. At that time, monetizing by advertising didn't exist, and web developers were having to hand roll those experiences. Robert Flynn: Yes.

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Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

It's pretty typical in the life of a startup, where we've proven we have a product people like, and use and demand, and can scale, and we did a pretty effective job of learning about advertising and making revenues off high yielding, CPC advertising. There is a huge demand from people, who have gone there to buy products.

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Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171