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

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” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. He built & IPOd Demand Media.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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Do you have any words of caution or advice for entrepreneurs who attempt to “Get Their Band Back Together”? “In When assembling a team, I encourage entrepreneurs to seek out the MVPs, and look to build diversity into the teams they assemble.”. Performance marketing also demands accountability. Be prepared to iterate.

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Interview with Scott Morrow, Curatemedia

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At the end of the day, what we do is create demand and pass that in the form of a lead to someone. It's an extremely valuable service, and we're paid through various commercial relationships--Google AdSense, major affiliate networks, or direct relationships with individual brands and retailers. Demand has done a good job of that.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. I think this makes no sense.