Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. What was Bill Gross’s heretical idea as portrayed to the tech elite? LA in fact has more entrepreneurs as a percentage of its population than anywhere else in the country. “There’s something going on in LA.”

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

What's the story behind the idea--where did it come from, and how did you decide to present it at the business plan competition? Jeff's father is an entrepreneur, and I wanted to go down the entrepreneurial path, so we had this early concept for a cash back and coupon web site. So, we decided to go out and do it.

USC 207

USC CPC Sites Startup 207

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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. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Thus, we click! And it turns out that we click a lot.

Advertising 284

Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

We help web publishers make more money out of advertising. They can sell those ads on a CPM, CPC, or CPA basis. The idea there is to grow our exchange in Japan, which is the second largest advertising market in the world. Tim, first off, for our readers who haven't heard of OpenX, explain what you provide to the market?

OpenX 242

OpenX Advertising Yahoo Pasadena 242

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

We want to make sure the marketplace is for professional content, so we screen to make sure the seller is a professional or small business owner, or a startup or entrepreneur. That works like Docstoc, which is now probably the fastest growing web site for small businesses. Part of that is transition into paid content.

Technical Review 171

Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. At that time, monetizing by advertising didn't exist, and web developers were having to hand roll those experiences. Robert Flynn: Yes.

Startup 162

Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

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MARCH 30, 2010

He has many of the attributes I look for in an entrepreneur and importantly he has deep domain experience in ad management. The first big wave of this change came from the introduction of the iPhone, which was the first well built mobile device for using the web. banner ads on a CPM, CPC or a Cost-Per-Install [CPI] basis).

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Company Companies 282