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How ReachLocal Wants To Own The Consumer Transaction

socalTECH

ReachLocal (www.reachlocal.com) was born in the age of Internet search marketing, and helped define Internet marketing from local service providers--letting people know about your local business via the Internet. We're taking all of those leads, and creating the tools to convert them to customers. In a sense, it completes the funnel.

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How Serviz Plans To Conquer The Home Services Industry

socalTECH

In a world awash with on-demand startups, Los Angeles-based Serviz (www.serviz.com) stands out--not because of the market segment it is tackling, but because it was founded by two, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Zorik Gordon and Michael Kline. Zorik Gordon: We incubated this at ReachLocal, and spun it out in February of last year.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

I talked to one startup CEO who told me, “you have young engineers who want to make $200,000 or more to work for me. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. And many of the ones that do want to do startups are plotting their one YCombinator company.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

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They were started in affiliation with IdeaLab and were the first-round lead in PayPal. Read more: HP Press Release , VentureBeat on P&L Sponsor Todd Bradley , TechCrunch follow-up. Online advertising platform for local businesses; ReachLocal reported over $203 million in revenue for 2009, compared to around $146 million in 2008.

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Santa Barbara: the home of the clicks (and the calls)

Eric Greenspan

The focus of this post is Commission Junction, as we are just about to get started with them. I remember when they started in a building I once thought to lease for my 2nd company Push. To generate phone traffic, we tried ReachLocal. It didn’t work for us, but we are very excited to get started with Ring Revenue.