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Interview With Mike Mothner, Wpromote On Growth, Acquisitions

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Our clients are everyone from fast growing, freshly funded startups, to the Fortune 100. We're not the vendor that does SEO, and not the vendor that does paid search, we're their marketing vendor. Mike Mothner: I think, with search centric companies, that's a scary concept. What are your thoughts on that?

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DataPop Gets $1.7M

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Los Angeles-based DataPop , a new paid search ad management firm started by a pair of Overture/Yahoo Search Marketing veterans, has raised $1.7M in a Series A funding round, the company said this morning. DataPop was founded Jason Lehmbeck and John Zimmerman, both of whom have been at Overture and Yahoo!

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ReachLocal Opens UK Office

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ReachLocal, which provides services that help local businesses buy search engine advertising, said it has launched ReachLocal UK Ltd., ReachLocal's paid search ads are placed in Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and other search engine, to generate leads for local businesses. READ MORE>>

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Interview with Dan LeBlanc, CEO and Co-founder, Daasity

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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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Interview with Robert Blatt, MomentFeed

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funding led by Level Equity. There are hundreds and thousands of representation of companies on Facebook, Google, Apple, and Yelp, in paid search and through social experiences. Now that you have some new funding, what's the big goal for the company? It's been quite a few years since we spoke with the company.

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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. We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. It’s 2003 and VCs aren’t exactly lining up to fund startup businesses. Aren’t they worth billions of dollars?” Sorry, brah.”

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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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. Especially when he’s surrounded by Danny Rimer (who funded Skype, MySQL, Last.FM PLUS RELATED FUNDING ….