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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 CapitalĀis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. Because of that, they think of the ecosystem as how do we make sure the ecosystem is there, and the tools and products are out there to enable entrepreneurs to be successful.

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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. A tool to better help you find bars & restaurants? 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.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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Why arenā€™t there a half-dozen well-funded startups running up your tailpipe? Additionally, they might do a lot of paid search advertising and as a result want to get better ROI on their paid search and see which keywords are generating phone calls and revenue for them. Who do you view as your biggest competition?

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Interview with Julie Novack, PartySlate

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Unlike Yelp and listings sites that are focused on user-generated reviews or things like that, we're really a portfolio sharing site, and a tool of professionals. That is all gearing up for a Series A funding, which will happen in the summer of 2018. What's the biggest lesson you have learned so far in starting this up? READ MORE>>.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Hereā€™s Why:

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So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. So when he saw the browser it instantly dawned on him that this would be the greatest customer development tool ever. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet? Shopping.com.