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How To Make Money Like Facebook With Online Ads

Startup Professionals Musings

While you are doing all this work, of course, you need deep pockets to fund all your efforts, content and growing website hosting fees. When Facebook did it a few years ago, the company used more than $100 million in venture capital funding before it became profitable. It helps to understand how online advertising really works.

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Interview with Dan Yomtobian, Scour

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Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. It seems like you'd be somewhat competitive to what they do. In 2001, I started ABCSearch, which as been in the PPC space for a number of years. How is the company funded? That's how I was able to fund and start ABCSearch.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date. If we continue our success we will have strong competition. Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. Why am I excited about in-stream advertising then?

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