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Rubicon Project Hails Growth, New Customers

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Rubicon develops a cloud-based platform which enables real-time buying and selling of advertising for web publishers; the firm''s automated systems help optimize the amount of revenue earned by advertisers, by soliciting up real-time-bids for which advertisements which are presented on a web page. The company was founded in 2007.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

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The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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Tealium Adds $35M to Expand Technology, Sharpen Customer Focus

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Tealium , founded in 2008, has raised close to $113 million since its inception, according to Crunchbase , although that number includes both debt and equity deals. Tags are a creature of Web analytics, generating data that enable marketing teams to determine if users viewed a Web page or e-mail. It’s been about data.

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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

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I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. For start, there are many types of businesses that are large or complex “considered purchases” that have higher close rates over the phone than on a web form. I had just left Salesforce.com where I was VP, Products, after they had acquired my second startup.

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Interview with Kevin O'Connor, FindTheBest.com

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Kevin O'Connor is the co-founder of DoubleClick , which he took from startup to IPO on the Nasdaq in 1998, sold it to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for around $1.2 billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 It's really all the things you need that are considered purchases.

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Interview with Greg Brogger, SharesPost

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Greg Brogger: I founded BrightHouse in the middle of 2007, along with Scott Painter. Towards early 2007, Scott and I had taken Zag to a level of some measure of stability, and we were thinking about the next thing. We came to it, because we'd been around private equity, and it's always surprised me how inefficient the marketplace is.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010.