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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. Thus, we click!

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Hydra Acquired By Adknowledge

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Los Angeles-based Internet advertising firm Hydra , which operates a cost-per-acquisition affiliate advertising network, has been acquired by Adknowledge , Adknowledge said this morning. Adknowledge said the acquisition will make it the largest affiliate network measured by its CPC and CPA offers. READ MORE>>.

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

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I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Naturally I’m excited about this investment or I wouldn’t have done it.

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How Mobile Is Changing Oversee's Business, With Debra Domeyer

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Domeyer recently told us how mobile visitors to the web are dramatically changing how Oversee looks at the market, and are pushing the firm to invest more in technology to adapt to mobile users. To give you some numbers, we now have a network of 230 million unique visitors per month, and over 20 percent of that is mobile.

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

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” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” No less than Fred Wilson has credited Carlota’s work with having a major influence on his investment strategy at USV.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

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We've built some social curation tools, which use social signaling--tweets, clickthroughs, or comments on Facebook--and take what the network is deciding are important stories, and highlighting those and moving them further up on our site, so that the important stories on any given day are being highlighted. Robert Flynn: Yes.

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Interview with Tim Cadogan, OpenX

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They can sell those ads on a CPM, CPC, or CPA basis. Yahoo made the decision that they could not, or would not be able to make the level of investment required to keep up with Google. Google has an amazing position, and is deeply entrenched, because of consumer embedded behavior and business network effects.

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