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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. LA By The Numbers.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2014

For our profile today, we had a chat with Jonathan David , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Tapstone (www.tapstone.com), a company providing media buying and optimization. We spoke with Jonathan about the company and where it fits into the advertising market. What is Tapstone all about? About five years ago, I got into digital advertising.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

But I’m working on a large team of people trying to figure out how to make micro improvements to a paid-search algorithm. You’ve got to convince your buddies to part with their hard-earned savings to back you as angels. You scraped together enough for an angel round but not enough to pay yourself a real salary.

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JULY 14, 2011

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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

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. In fact, it is Overture 2.0. Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

For today's interview, we thought we'd catch up with Robert Blatt , the CEO of Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com), which recently announced a $16.3M There are hundreds and thousands of representation of companies on Facebook, Google, Apple, and Yelp, in paid search and through social experiences.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Some of the traffic-tactics we use involve good old fashioned payola: paid search, banner ads, affiliate programs, etc. Collusion - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 22, 2010 Mike Arrington posted about a secret meeting of angels and super angels in San Francisco the other night. That crazy chicken.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 28, 2017

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? We spoke with Julie Novack , the founder and CEO of PartySlate (www.partyslate.com). What does PartySlate do? He's based in LA. READ MORE>>.

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