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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. 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. PLUS RELATED FUNDING ….

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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 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. 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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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

Both Sides of the Table

But I’m working on a large team of people trying to figure out how to make micro improvements to a paid-search algorithm. ” Your VC friends have been egging you on. We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. Aren’t they worth billions of dollars?”

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

Both Sides of the Table

billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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Why aren’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. We met with a ton of VC’s and angels.

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

From the Venture Trenches

In 2001 GoTo.com the pioneer of paid search and the pay per click model was looking to raise more money in a secondary offering and was considering Merrill Lynch as one of the underwriters. Ultimately GoTo.com went with Credit Suisse First Boston, Salomon Smith Barney and U.S.