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Interview With Mike Mothner, Wpromote On Growth, Acquisitions

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Our clients are everyone from fast growing, freshly funded startups, to the Fortune 100. We're not the vendor that does SEO, and not the vendor that does paid search, we're their marketing vendor. Mike Mothner: I think, with search centric companies, that's a scary concept. What are your thoughts on that?

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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 CapitalĀis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. Talk about this recent funding round, how did that come about? Dan LeBlanc: Initially, the hardest part was making the decision on the right level of funding.

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This Week in Venture Capital ā€“ Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Especially when he’s surrounded by Danny Rimer (who funded Skype, MySQL, Last.FM PLUS RELATED FUNDING ā€¦.

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

Both Sides of the Table

” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” 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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He and I connected, and walked through PartySlate and what we were doing, and he immediately said he wanted to invest and become an advisor to the company. He introduced me to Wavemaker, also in LA, and also Halogen Ventures, which is led by Jessie Draper, which invests in women-run technology companies. READ MORE>>.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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Why arenā€™t there a half-dozen well-funded startups running up your tailpipe? Additionally, they might do a lot of paid search advertising and as a result want to get better ROI on their paid search and see which keywords are generating phone calls and revenue for them. Who do you view as your biggest competition?

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Henry Blodget Loves to Blog: The remaking of a disgraced Wall Street analyst

From the Venture Trenches

This was in direct response to the implosion of the tech bubble and the fall out of Enron, Worldcom and the questionable research produced by the investment banks in general and Blodget in particular. In 2003 Blodget struck a civil settlement deal with the SEC that cost him $4 million. Blodget also agreed never to work on the Street again.