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Lightpost Digital Lands New Funding For Online Marketing Services

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San Diego-based Lightpost Digital , a digital agency which provides online marketing services to local businesses, has raised a round of funding, the company disclosed this week. The funding came from Canal Partners and DWP Investments. The company focuses on website development, SEO, Facebook ads, and review monitoring.

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SpotOn raises $300M at a $3.15B valuation and acquires Appetize

TechCrunch LA

Last year at this time, SpotOn was on the brink of announcing a $60 million Series C funding round at a $625 million valuation. Appetize will go to market as SpotOn and will work to grow its client base, which already includes an impressive list of companies and organizations including Live Nation, LSU, Dodger Stadium and Urban Air. .

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Last Exit Wall Street: 7 Considerations When Raising Venture Capital

From the Venture Trenches

If Groupon remained a bootstrapped entity or a business built on the back of funds raised from friends and family, Mason would still be firmly entrenched as founder and Chief Executive. Thirteen months after raising more than $10 billion in the public markets the board forced Mason out after another dismal financial quarter.

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Africa’s Largest and Fastest Growing Social Network | Interview with LAGbook’s Chidi Nwaogu

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We read up and many-a-times our experience teaches us the best and bad practices in engineering a social corporation, both technical, financial, and marketing. As a young African entrepreneur with little funding, you may want to meet new people on social networks that may help in the growth and development of your new internet start-up.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 2.0: The Internet is Coming! How will we make money?

Frank Addante

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. During this period of time (1997-ish), websites were basically static, online advertising brochures. Marketers, and their respective companies, were looking to “go online.&# Startup 3.0:

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