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Hero Conf Los Angeles [ LOS ANGELES ]

Tech.Co

“Hero Conf Los Angeles marks our sixth annual US event, where PPC fanatics gather to share a passion, collaborate on solutions and simply have fun while learning about the latest trends in paid search.

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Idealab

Tech.Co

The structure of Idealab has allowed us to test many ideas at once and turn the best of them into companies, attracting the human and financial capital necessary to bring them to market. Many of these companies were among the first to introduce new business ideas to the market.

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Interview with Julie Novack, PartySlate

socalTECH

We're focused on larger scale events, not do-it-yourself type events, and we're really for people planning large scale events, looking for ideas, and who are looking for a professional to help them. Being a digital person, I kept looking online for new ideas. That's how I came up with the idea. Why did you create PartySlate?

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Interview with Robert Blatt, MomentFeed

socalTECH

However, instead of just very rapidly scaling around that idea, we decided to really define what the business needed to look like. There are hundreds and thousands of representation of companies on Facebook, Google, Apple, and Yelp, in paid search and through social experiences. We accomplished that, that did it well.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

Both Sides of the Table

But I’m working on a large team of people trying to figure out how to make micro improvements to a paid-search algorithm. They can’t wait to hear your brilliant idea. You left our team to work on THAT idea? Aren’t they worth billions of dollars?” ” “Yeah, Ma. “What?

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

InfoChachkie

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. Good ideas, great people and access to capital are key to any thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

Because GoTo.com was his idea. 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. But bill is a BIG idea guy. Overture sold for $1.6 billion to Yahoo!