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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 & sold iMall in Internet 1.0

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Social Search – What Entrepreneur Needs To Know

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As noted in this recent Wall Street Journal article, Google has begun requesting that merchants include rating and review data to ensure that the efficacy of their search results. However, it most likely still won’t provide revenue or a return on ad spend seen in traditional direct response channels, such as paid search.

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Convertro Launches New Product

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Zwelling is a serial entrepreneur, who has a number of very successful companies under his belt, including YLighting (acquired by a private equity firm) and EchoSign (acuqired by Adobe). Convertro is trying to better track conversions and visitors, and attribute those to different online advertising and outreach. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Jonathan David, Tapstone

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Jonathan David: This might sound like a cliche, but I consider myself a serial entrepreneur. I''ve now been in Santa Monica as an entrepreneur for thirteen years, at this point. jonathan david tapstone interview startup entrepreneur advertising online programmatic buying' What''s your background? READ MORE>>.

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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.

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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.”. 7) You spent nearly 12-months defining your next adVenture after you left CallWave.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

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But I’m working on a large team of people trying to figure out how to make micro improvements to a paid-search algorithm. You know this isn’t likely to lead anywhere and frankly you didn’t quit your job to pursue your life dream of being an entrepreneur to sell 12 months later in an acquihire.

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