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Interview with Julie Novack, PartySlate

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She told us about why so many Los Angeles investors are supporting the company and gave us an overview of what PartySlate is all about. How is it you have so many Los Angeles investors? He introduced me to Wavemaker, also in LA, and also Halogen Ventures, which is led by Jessie Draper, which invests in women-run technology companies.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” And it wasn’t just Google Ad Words that originated in Los Angeles. LA By The Numbers. Google’s Ad Sense did, too.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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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. Sure, you might search on Twitter.com but how many of you search in Tweetie or UberTwitter often?

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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Additionally, they might do a lot of paid search advertising and as a result want to get better ROI on their paid search and see which keywords are generating phone calls and revenue for them. We met with a ton of VC’s and angels. They understand performance marketing and want to spend more of their budget on it.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

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And And after 30 years of Venture investing we still have a hard time articulating why. Some of the traffic-tactics we use involve good old fashioned payola: paid search, banner ads, affiliate programs, etc. Here’s one possible explanation – Job titles in a startup mean something different than titles in a large company.

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