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Interview with Jason Lehmbeck, Datapop

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The company's founders are previously from Overture and Yahoo! Search Marketing. We are ex-Overture and Yahoo! Lots of marketers are feeling a lot of pain in their search marketing, and we thought there was a great opportunity here to solve that problem. First off, what is Datapop?

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Brian Coryat, ValueClick Founder And Internet Pioneer: Startups Should Wing It

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Brian Coryat, Founder and CEO of Local Market Launch and former Founder and CEO of ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK) recently winged his talk at UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. Talking To Yahoo''s Jerry Yang. But there was this one site that somebody told me about or maybe I read about and it was called Yahoo!

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. As such, it was difficult to envision the ultimate size of Twilio’s market. billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

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He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. Price: $15 (Early Bird).

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

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In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. We could all do better – I’m sure.

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