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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. 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.

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DataPop Gets $1.7M

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Los Angeles-based DataPop , a new paid search ad management firm started by a pair of Overture/Yahoo Search Marketing veterans, has raised $1.7M Tags: datapop venture capital search marketing advertising overture yahoo. in a Series A funding round, the company said this morning. READ MORE>>.

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San Gabriel Valley: Bitcoin Creator Not The Only Inventor In Town

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Paid search advertising , invented at Goto.com --a spinout of Idealab--which was later acquired by Yahoo for $1.63 billion and became Yahoo Search Marketing. million in venture capital into one of the biggest semiconductor companies in the world.

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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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Yahoo Deal With Microsoft May Hit Overture

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The move may have a huge impact of Yahoo's staff and operations in Pasadena and elsewhere in Southern California: Microsoft and Yahoo said that instead of using Yahoo's own paid search services, they will instead fulfill self-serve advertising through Microsoft's AdCenter, which has been a direct competitor to what was Overture Services.

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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. You have tremendous momentum and clearly could have raised capital from a variety of sources.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. Bill’s rationale was the more serious your business was, the more you could afford to pay for placement and therefore the more likely it was for consumers.