Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Overture sold for $1.6

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Los Angeles-based DataPop , a new paid search ad management firm started by a pair of Overture/Yahoo Search Marketing veterans, has raised $1.7M in a Series A funding round, the company said this morning. Tags: datapop venture capital search marketing advertising overture yahoo. READ MORE>>.

Yahoo 145

Yahoo Paid Search GRP Partners SoCalTech 145

socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2014

It''s also home to many other prominent technology companies, including OpenX and NewEgg. Paid search advertising , invented at Goto.com --a spinout of Idealab--which was later acquired by Yahoo for $1.63 billion and became Yahoo Search Marketing. Any notable local inventors/technology we missed? Comment below!

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San Gabriel La Canada Flintridge CalTech La Canada 124

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. And for many companies a good deal of their business is still closed over the phone–through their call centers.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. The company that owned the brand was Provide Commerce, and the brand was Proflowers, which they owned along with a couple of other brands.

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Startup Platform Commerce San Diego 113

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. He invented the category of sponsored search. I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. Summary notes, as always, provide below.

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350