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Lightpost Digital Lands New Funding For Online Marketing Services

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San Diego-based Lightpost Digital , a digital agency which provides online marketing services to local businesses, has raised a round of funding, the company disclosed this week. The company focuses on website development, SEO, Facebook ads, and review monitoring. The funding came from Canal Partners and DWP Investments.

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SpotOn raises $300M at a $3.15B valuation and acquires Appetize

TechCrunch LA

With the new capital, SpotOn has raised $628 million since its inception. Appetize will go to market as SpotOn and will work to grow its client base, which already includes an impressive list of companies and organizations including Live Nation, LSU, Dodger Stadium and Urban Air. .

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Last Exit Wall Street: 7 Considerations When Raising Venture Capital

From the Venture Trenches

The recent firing of Groupon’s CEO Andrew Mason is a cautionary tale of the increased scrutiny and heightened expectations that come from accessing increasingly larger amounts of investment capital. Thirteen months after raising more than $10 billion in the public markets the board forced Mason out after another dismal financial quarter.

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Africa’s Largest and Fastest Growing Social Network | Interview with LAGbook’s Chidi Nwaogu

Tech Zulu Event

We read up and many-a-times our experience teaches us the best and bad practices in engineering a social corporation, both technical, financial, and marketing. LAGbook is funded with money realised from our advertising services, our website development company, our venture capital firm ( LAGbook Capital ), and our lovely Dad.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 2.0: The Internet is Coming! How will we make money?

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► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut.

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