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MediaTrust Gets $3M

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The funding will go towards its Performance Exchange (MPTX) product, a real-time, CPC advertising exchange. Los Angeles-based MediaTrust , which develops an online advertising and marketing platform, announced Thursday that it has raised $3M in a new funding round. According to the firm, the round was led by Ropart Asset Management Funds.

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Interview with Noah Auerhahn, Extrabux

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We wrote up a business plan, and won a USC business plan competition, which allowed us to get funding from the University and raise venture capital we needed to begin development on the plan. If you look at all the other guys, they're all about moving traffic, buying traffic at the lowest CPC, and selling it at the highest CPC.

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How To Make Money Like Facebook With Online Ads

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When Facebook did it a few years ago, the company used more than $100 million in venture capital funding before it became profitable. For the advertiser, this is the cost-per-click (CPC) model. While you are doing all this work, of course, you need deep pockets to fund all your efforts, content and growing website hosting fees.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. further down the sales funnel from CPC advertising where you pay for a click but still need to convert on your own).

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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. What is Aggregage? Roberty Flynn: We are building what we see as the next generation of business to business media. Robert Flynn: Yes.

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

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billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5

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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 ). banner ads on a CPM, CPC or a Cost-Per-Install [CPI] basis).

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