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CampaignEQ Launches Affiliate Tracking Tool

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According to CampaignEQ, the new tool lets companies manage and optimize incoming traffic, including CPC, CPL, CPA, affiliate networks, and other advertising. CampaignEQ said it tool starts at $19 a month. The two came up with the idea for CampaignEQ from their time at Beachmint.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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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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Interview with Noah Auerhahn, Extrabux

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We talked with Noah about how the company grew out of a business plan competition at the University of Southern California, his recent funding from the Maverick Angels, as well as how the firm hopes to stand out among a crowded list of comparison shopping sites. How did the company start? So, we decided to go out and do it.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies.

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CampaignEQ's William Belk On Ads, Algorithms, and Attribution

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To figure that out, they started building tools to help them sort out Beachmint''s advertising efforts. We caught up with William to learn more about how his experience at Beachmint led to the creation of CampaignEQ and its ad optimization tools. They decided to take what they learned there, to create CampaignEQ (www.campaigneq.com).

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. Cost per click (CPC). All these models start with the advertiser choosing the right search keywords to match user searches. That business model doesn’t compute in the startup stage, but that’s another story.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

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The startup is headed by Robert Flynn --a former VC, and co-founder of Liquid Audio, and most recently head of Modern Feed, the company that is now Clicker--who talked with us about his new company. That is starting to show itself in the B2B space. What is Aggregage? He put together a model for attracting an audience.

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