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Savings.com: The California Internet Tax Law and Unintended Consequences

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Jerry Brown signed into law a bill which taxes Internet retailers if they have California affiliates, a move which looks to have major impact on local companies who use Internet affiliate marketing. However, if we were just providing clicks, using the CPC model, they wouldn't be affected. But, it certainly is a real possibility.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Early evidence is good.

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CampaignEQ's William Belk On Ads, Algorithms, and Attribution

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William Belk and Dirk McGregor were both early employees at Beachmint, who saw how difficult it was to track the lifetime value and marketing attribution of their advertising spend. To figure that out, they started building tools to help them sort out Beachmint''s advertising efforts. What is CampaignEQ?

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Interview with Noah Auerhahn, Extrabux

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Noah Auerhahn: ExtraBux helps consumers get the lowest prices online, by integrating online discounts into a comparison shopping engine. At that point, we realized we needed more money to get things to market, and that's when we went out and raised a round from the Maverick Angels. Noah, thanks for the interview.

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Interview with Tim Cadogan, OpenX

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Tim, first off, for our readers who haven't heard of OpenX, explain what you provide to the market? We help web publishers make more money out of advertising. One, is we give them software--known as an ad server--which helps them manage different ad streams they have. They can sell those ads on a CPM, CPC, or CPA basis.

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

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Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. It isn’t written by them or any marketing department – so please take it for what it is. banner ads on a CPM, CPC or a Cost-Per-Install [CPI] basis).

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Docstoc's Jason Nazar Talks About DocStore

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This is a really big, $50 million business at least, and we really want to own the market. It's pretty typical in the life of a startup, where we've proven we have a product people like, and use and demand, and can scale, and we did a pretty effective job of learning about advertising and making revenues off high yielding, CPC advertising.