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Interview with Noah Auerhahn, Extrabux

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How did the company start? Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC. The site started as a concept that Jeff Nobbs, my co-founder, and myself developed while we were operating a cash-back and coupon website while we were attending USC. We then went out to raise money, and got started on development.

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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Cost per click (CPC). All these models start with the advertiser choosing the right search keywords to match user searches. Campaign setup and ad copy writing. For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions. Keyword research and budget forecasting.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Cost per click (CPC). All these models start with the advertiser choosing the right search keywords to match user searches. Campaign setup and ad copy writing. For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions. Keyword research and budget forecasting.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Cost per click (CPC). All these models start with the advertiser choosing the right search keywords to match user searches. Campaign setup and ad copy writing. That business model doesn’t compute in the startup stage, but that’s another story. Tags: entrepreneurs startups. Keyword research and budget forecasting.

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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. They can sell those ads on a CPM, CPC, or CPA basis. As you know, we started in Europe, and re-based it here in Pasadena about two and a half years ago.

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

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As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing. 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.

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