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CPC Marketing Firm Bardon Advisors Acquired

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Los Angeles-based Bardon Advisors , a cost-per-click (CPC) search and affiliate marketing firm, has been acquired by New York-based MediaTrust. Bardon Advisors was founded by Keith Cohn, who was previously President and CEO of Vendare Media, which was backed by Idealab and other venture firms.

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

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If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

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Roberty Flynn: We are building what we see as the next generation of business to business media. As you're probably familiar with, in the business to business marketing space, print has been the dominant way that vendors communicate with their potential audience. That is starting to show itself in the B2B space. Robert Flynn: Yes.

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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? They can sell those ads on a CPM, CPC, or CPA basis. We run it through our exchange, OpenX Market, which is in simple terms a stock market for online media. They run that under the brand Orange Ad Market.

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Africa’s Largest and Fastest Growing Social Network | Interview with LAGbook’s Chidi Nwaogu

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We read up and many-a-times our experience teaches us the best and bad practices in engineering a social corporation, both technical, financial, and marketing. We also raised fund for CPC advertising, which doubled sign-ups. We don’t have mentors at the moment.