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

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Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. LA By The Numbers. But even this is changing.

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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. Our technology allows us to do anything we want. It''s a problem for everyone.

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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. If someone goes to a certain domain now, instead of seeing a CPC advertisement, we could instead offer them to download different apps.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

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The startup is headed by Robert Flynn --a former VC, and co-founder of Liquid Audio, and most recently head of Modern Feed, the company that is now Clicker--who talked with us about his new company. 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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How To Make Money Like Facebook With Online Ads

Startup Professionals Musings

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.

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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. We can technology enable offline advertising.

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

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So when I started talking with Evan Rifkin almost a year ago about the company he was planning to build, I was intrigued. Let’s start from the highest level that will not be rocket science. banner ads on a CPM, CPC or a Cost-Per-Install [CPI] basis). Optimization technology is not new. I like that.

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