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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. How did the company start? Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC. That's where the original concept came from--so we wrote up the plan, and it won the competition.

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

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To figure that out, they started building tools to help them sort out Beachmint''s advertising efforts. We caught up with William to learn more about how his experience at Beachmint led to the creation of CampaignEQ and its ad optimization tools. William Belk: My partner and I were early employees at Beachmint.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

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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. However, as we have seen in the last few years, traditional media has been failing.

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Interview with Tim Cadogan, OpenX

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For today's interview, we spoke with Tim Cadogan , CEO of OpenX, to hear more about the firm's growth on the strength of Internet advertising, and what the firm is up to. We help web publishers make more money out of advertising. They can sell those ads on a CPM, CPC, or CPA basis. Tim Cadogan: At its root, it's pretty simple.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. can serve up ads that are relevant, clearly market as ads, frequency capped and with controlled quality we believe that this will become a huge market. Early evidence is good. Enter RingRevenue.

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Docstoc's Jason Nazar Talks About DocStore

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Jason is also behind the popular "Startups Uncensored" events in Los Angeles, so we also pinged him on how those events have been going. 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. It turned out to be 40.

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How To Make Money Like Facebook With Online Ads

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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. It helps to understand how online advertising really works.