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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? Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC.

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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Cost per click (CPC). All these models start with the advertiser choosing the right search keywords to match user searches. For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions. The display side is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL). Keyword research and budget forecasting.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Cost per click (CPC). All these models start with the advertiser choosing the right search keywords to match user searches. For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions. The display side is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL). Keyword research and budget forecasting.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Tags: entrepreneurs startups. The display side is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL).

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How To Make Money Like Facebook With Online Ads

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the most popular and least successful models I see in new business plans for startups is the so-called Facebook model, providing free services to users while collecting revenue from ads to offset costs and grow the business. For the advertiser, this is the cost-per-click (CPC) model.

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Interview with Tim Cadogan, OpenX

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For today's interview, we spoke with Tim Cadogan , CEO of OpenX, to hear more about the firm's growth on the strength of Internet advertising, and what the firm is up to. They can sell those ads on a CPM, CPC, or CPA basis. We manage that competition through an aucton process. That's pretty powerful for publishers.

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

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I don’t intend either, Burstly has respectable and strong competition. So when I started talking with Evan Rifkin almost a year ago about the company he was planning to build, I was intrigued. He’s a natural leader, appropriately competitive, very customer focused and a pleasure to work with. I like that.

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