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Introducing Trust, and the Importance of Product-Founder Fit

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Photo by Vanna Phon on Unsplash Customer acquisition is the lifeblood of many startups from e-commerce to gaming to marketplace companies, among others. Some of this can be attributed to the exponential growth in e-commerce and direct-to-consumer businesses as a result of the pandemic and global lockdowns? no surprise?—?that’s

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Capturing The Entrepreneurial Energy At StartEngine's Demo Day

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Will all that activity help create the next big technology, advertising, gaming, or e-commerce startup? Much of the focus is on absorbing that energy, the enthusiasm of the startup community here has created over the last few years. It's unclear.

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StartEngine Debuts Eight New Startups At Demo Day

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The eight startups are pitching their investors to startups at CrossCampus in Santa Monica this afternoon.

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

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We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. We learned that Groupon was taking their advertisers. We also mail checks to the advertisers every day, to make sure people get paid.

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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. com, and was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA.

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Internet Brands Revenues Grow In Q2

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Revenues were up by 21 percent from the prior year, driven by increases in internet advertising revenues. decrease in automotive e-commerce revenues, related to continued weakness in demand from automotive dealerships. The firm said it saw growth in its Auto Enthusiast, Home, Travel and Legal verticals, but saw a $1.1M

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Interview: Jason Lehmbeck, Co-Founder and CEO of DataPop

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The catalyst was that we saw the demand and it was confirmed by some of the leading advertisers in the marketplace. 3) To the casual observer, search might seem to be an area of Internet commerce where there is little room for improvement. Every advertiser loves it – in the first meeting.

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