socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. For people who haven't heard of ExtraBux, what is the site all about? How did the company start?

USC 207

USC CPC Sites Startup 207

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2011

If challenged, the founder usually cites the Facebook business model (free service to users, revenue from ads), but forgets that Facebook has had several hundred million in funding, and has been profitable only in the last two years. Don’t count on that to fund your startup. For advertisers, this is called cost per click (CPC).

Advertising 90

Advertising CPC Funding Startup 90

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2012

If challenged, the founder usually cites the Facebook business model (free service to users, revenue from ads), but forgets that Facebook has had several hundred million in funding, and has been profitable only in the last couple of years. The most challenging time is your first years, when your site is unknown, and your page-views are low.

CPC 106

CPC PPC Startup Advertising 106

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. That is starting to show itself in the B2B space. He has been blogging on a number of subjects, for example, eLearning.

Startup 162

Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

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.

Advertising 99

Advertising PPC CPC Sites 99

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. Jason is also behind the popular "Startups Uncensored" events in Los Angeles, so we also pinged him on how those events have been going. It's the eBay of professional documents.

Technical Review 171

Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Today they say its Africa’s largest and fastest growing social networking utility with over 4,000 daily new sign-ups. But its not the social networking site we are after but their age, courage and energy and its amazing how beauty inspired entrepreneurship! What inspired you to come up with LAGbook? What is LAGbook?

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Social Network Networking Advertising Startup 100