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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

What was Bill Gross’s heretical idea as portrayed to the tech elite? He presented a system where your search results would be ranked based on companies bidding for placement and where merchants would be charged on a “cost per click” basis (CPC). You can hear many other amazing stories in this 1:1 interview ).

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Some of the traffic-tactics we use involve good old fashioned payola: paid search, banner ads, affiliate programs, etc. CompStudy 2008 Report on Equity and Cash Compensation at Technology Startups. Lindsey Harper recently wrote about her experiences using Mechanical Turk to validate her startup idea. That crazy chicken.

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