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Interview with Jonathan David, Tapstone

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Most of that digital media is display, and we have a platform which automates a lot of the optimization decisions, based on a strategy we''ve developed collectively as a media team. It''s 85 percent a service, but we currently have thousands of hours into developing our own platform, and our own proprietary, database application.

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

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When my friend and the father of LA’s tech startup community Bill Gross first demonstrated his company GoTo.com (renamed Overture) on stage at a TED conference he was actually booed (True story. You can hear many other amazing stories in this 1:1 interview ). What was Bill Gross’s heretical idea as portrayed to the tech elite?

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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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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

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Sean Murphy on the first dozen enterprise customers - Gabriel Weinberg , September 8, 2010 I recently did a Traction Book interview with Sean Murphy who runs a boutique cutomer development firm in Silicon Valley. Some of the traffic-tactics we use involve good old fashioned payola: paid search, banner ads, affiliate programs, etc.

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