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APRIL 15, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Overture sold for $1.6

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

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%). billion (Upfront Ventures was an early Overture backer).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. Talk about this recent funding round, how did that come about? Dan LeBlanc: Initially, the hardest part was making the decision on the right level of funding.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Your parents want to know why on Earth you’d leave a job at Google. But I’m working on a large team of people trying to figure out how to make micro improvements to a paid-search algorithm. ” Your VC friends have been egging you on. We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. “Honey?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Leading advertising networks like Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google Affiliate Network, ShareASale and many others license our platform to help their advertisers and publishers easily create, manage, track, and optimize call-based advertising campaigns.”. Why aren’t there a half-dozen well-funded startups running up your tailpipe?

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MARCH 11, 2011

All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. He invented the category of sponsored search. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. Google was clear that they WOULD NOT go into this business. Overture (Goto.com).

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