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Interview: Clark Benson of Founder & CEO of Ranker.com - Dicusses Playing Nice With Google

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Prior to Ranker, Clark founded four other successful companies, including eCrush, which he sold to the Hearst Corporation in 2007. Your traffic growth is tracking over 40% month-over-month – on a fairly big base – despite spending zero dollars on marketing. I am looking for Java developers and database experts.

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

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It actually closed on New Year's Day, 2007. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform. Clark Benson: I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have had one prior Internet exit. I sold that company, eCRUSH, which operated espin.com, to Hearst at the end of 2006.

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Interview with Derrick Oien, Intercasting

socalTECH

We seem to receive lots of pitches from companies looking to attack the mobile market with their mobile software applications, but few who have deployed on-deck with carriers. Derrick Oien: The primary market is the operator. It all depends on the carrier and their target market. So we sell into the carriers.