Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. This led to my investment in RingRevenue , a company that allows you to track phone calls the way people track clicks.

Advertising 284

Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. With PPC, the goal is for the search user to not only see your ad, but to click on it to get to your website (click-through), and buy your widget (conversion to sale). Cost per click (CPC).

Paid Search 90

Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. With SEM, the goal is for the search user to not only see your ad, but to click on it to get to your website (click-through), and buy your widget (conversion to sale). Cost per click (CPC).

SEM 90

SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

We help web publishers make more money out of advertising. For a big company, that might be through their own sales force, and for a smaller company it might be a small team which is operating the site themselves. They can sell those ads on a CPM, CPC, or CPA basis. We do that in basically two ways.

OpenX 242

OpenX Advertising Yahoo Pasadena 242

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

It's something like between $50M and $100M in sales per year. We're now at the end of year 3 of the company. That works like Docstoc, which is now probably the fastest growing web site for small businesses. Back to the company, what's your status now in terms of funding? The company is going really well.

Technical Review 171

Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171