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Interview with Edward Park, Insteegram

socalTECH

That popularity helped drive Instagram's recent acquisition by Facebook for $1 billion. Since my background is in environmental sciences, as well, I couldn't help noticing all of the things that hadn't been addressed properly. Edward Park: When we first launched, we were a business to consumer service site.

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Interview with David Sacks, Geni and Yammer

socalTECH

Our interview this morning is with David Sacks, CEO of Geni.com, an online family tree and social networking site, as well as Yammer, the instant messaging startup spun out of Geni.com at TechCrunch50. We're up to around 2 million users who have created 30 million profiles on the site, and it's growing very fast month over month.

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The 7 “Free” Ways to Get Traffic on the Web

Jason Nazar

Other than paying for traffic with advertising, there are only so many ways to get people to show up at your door. There are 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web, in no weighted order they are: 1.) make sure your site is optimized for search engine traffic: 1.) Helpful Resources about Search Engine Traffic : 68 Helpful SEO Tools.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. they released a new 2.0

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 6.0 - the Rubicon Project: Internet Advertising

Frank Addante

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. . ©

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Interview with Alex Aydin, Icanbuy

socalTECH

Then, we spoke to the firm's founder, Alex Aydin, and discovered that he wasn't just your usual Web 2.0 He wanted me to help on the financing side, so we started a company and did a few deals. They can come to the site, and identify where they can qualify for a loan. What's the business model behind your site?

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The 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web

Jason Nazar

Other than paying for traffic with advertising, there are only so many ways to get people to show up at your door. There are 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web , in no weighted order they are: 1.) Search engines have the potential to drive millions of visitors to a given site. Search Engines.

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