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How Luxury Link Is Growing Its Travel Marketplace, With Scott Morrow

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Scott Morrow is an Internet and startup veteran, having run such companies as Oversee.net and ThisNext, and headed up product marketing for IAC/Citysearch. We''re privately owned, and we don''t disclose our financials, but we''re profitable, debt free, and growing. When did you get involved with the company?

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

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Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7

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Interview with Skyler Lucci, HeyTutor

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The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. If a tutor were to go out and try to advertise like we do, they would go under, and they'd lose money right away. However, because of our marketing and how efficient we are, we're able to make it work. Here's the reason why.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

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He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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This morning's interview is with Mark Suster , a venture capitalist at GRP Partners (www.grpvc.com). GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. So we think we're the right size for the market in 2009.

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Small Business Marketing | Get Customers versus Get Leads

Tech Zulu Event

That is, of course, as long as what you are selling is the absolute best in your market.) With this philosophy in mind it is easy to understand how one buyer would never dream of spending a grand on one thing and then rush into credit card debt to spend a $1,000 dollars on something else. Ask yourself, ‘what does my company solve’?

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Interview with Alex Aydin, Icanbuy

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first time entrepreneur, but had taken a company IPO and ran it as a public firm in the 90's--Prostor--which he eventually sold to Sun Microsystems. We thought it would be interesting to hear about his new company and its plans. We grew that business organically, never took any outside financing, and took the company public in 1997.

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