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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 The company's technology allows search marketers to automatically create more relevant search ads, which result in a better response rate than a standard generic ad.

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Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies

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marketing, and not enough of the traditional, software-and-algorithm intensive startups you'd expect to see in Silicon Valley. We've identified ten of the more technically interesting companies working on software in Southern California, using our unscientific, unproven, and undoubtedly biased informal polling.

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

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What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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Paid Search – Customers which click on sponsored ads associated with search keywords fall into this category. Google’s market capitalization is in the stratosphere for a reason – keyword search advertising is highly effective. Ideally, such ads should clearly articulate the value proposition including the price.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. He turned his accounting software into a product he could see. That gave Google a huge cost advantage.