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CPC Strategy Acquired By Elite SEM

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San Diego-based e-commerce agency CPC Strategy has been acquired by digital marketing agency Elite SEM , according to private equity backer Mountaingate Capital. Mountaingate Capital said that CPC Strategy with over 125 employees, is known for its expertise in retail, ecommerce, and specifically the Amazon channel.

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MediaTrust Gets $3M

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The funding will go towards its Performance Exchange (MPTX) product, a real-time, CPC advertising exchange. Los Angeles-based MediaTrust , which develops an online advertising and marketing platform, announced Thursday that it has raised $3M in a new funding round. According to the firm, the round was led by Ropart Asset Management Funds.

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Burstly Opens Up Mobile Ad Service

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Burstly also said its new Storefront feature allows advertisers to use geo-targeting, supports both CPC and CPM pricing models, and supports both Apple iOS and Android phones. Burstly is venture backed by Founder Collective, GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, and SoftBank Capital.

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Interview with Noah Auerhahn, Extrabux

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We wrote up a business plan, and won a USC business plan competition, which allowed us to get funding from the University and raise venture capital we needed to begin development on the plan. If you look at all the other guys, they're all about moving traffic, buying traffic at the lowest CPC, and selling it at the highest CPC.

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

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Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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How To Make Money Like Facebook With Online Ads

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When Facebook did it a few years ago, the company used more than $100 million in venture capital funding before it became profitable. For the advertiser, this is the cost-per-click (CPC) model. While you are doing all this work, of course, you need deep pockets to fund all your efforts, content and growing website hosting fees.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

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That will primarily be focused on ad sponsorships, and selling advertising via lead generation, CPC, white papers, and so on, to generate revenue. My career in the venture startup world started in about 1984--I'm not a completely young guy--and I actually did about ten years in venture capital. Robert Flynn: Yes.

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