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Interview with Kevin O'Connor, FindTheBest.com

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billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 Examples of that are if you're looking for a credit card, looking for antivirus software, or summer camp for the kids, or colleges. For example, when you go to make a decision on what ski resort to visit, you've got to determine what are the most important factors.

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Interview with Jeff Green, The Trade Desk

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The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. Jeff Green: To fully understand what we're up to, you need to understand the evolution of online advertising. AdECN was a system that basically was trying to be the New York Stock Exchange of advertising.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

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He has been blogging on a number of subjects, for example, eLearning. That will primarily be focused on ad sponsorships, and selling advertising via lead generation, CPC, white papers, and so on, to generate revenue. At that time, monetizing by advertising didn't exist, and web developers were having to hand roll those experiences.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent.

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Interview with Zac Brandenberg, Meteor Games

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On Island Paradise, for example, you get a plot of land, you can raise animals and farm crops on them, grow trees, etcetera. They created Neopets, brought it to the US, helped it grow, and eventually sold it to Viacom in 2005. So, my background is primarily in consumer marketing, advertising, and the ability to monetize properties.

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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

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For us, digital media means consumer Internet, online advertising, mobile, gaming, and most importantly--this is Rick and my background--next generation infrastructure to support consumption of this media. It's all that stuff that allows publishers and advertisers to better understand their user base and how to effectively monetize it.

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Interview with Scott Saunders, Payoff.com

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Scott Saunders: I spent nearly my entire career on the investment side, and in 2005 switched over to the entrepreneurial side of the world. Part of our advertising, is we are sending people checks in the mail for $25, or $50. Ultimately, we expect those to be ad-funded by different advertisers involved in our platform.

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