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The Search Agency Launches Award Program

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The Search Agency said it will award search marketers in the area of paid search, search engine optimization (SEO), social media marketing, mobile marketing, comparison shopping and search retargeting. The company said the awards will be given as part of the Direct Marketing Association''s annual conference.

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Interview with Jonathan David, Tapstone

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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? We''ve been operating now for seven or eight months.

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

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He invented the category of sponsored search. He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. Overture (Goto.com).

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

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” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

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I applied to hundreds of jobs: low-level VC roles, startups jobs, even to big tech companies. Big companies rejected me outright or gave me a courtesy interview before rejecting me. Here’s one possible explanation – Job titles in a startup mean something different than titles in a large company. Kanye West. Advisory Board.

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