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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. billion to Yahoo! plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. So my guess is that Tweetup needs to go “multi-stream&# (as in Facebook, MySpace, etc.).

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Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies

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Gravity--headed by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur--developer software which presents, in real time, personalized web pages. Founded by a number of former executives of Overture.com, DataPop is using algorithms to drive automated, paid search advertising. based on what consumers are most interested in. Jason Lehmbeck, the.

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

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So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. He led and sold MySpace to Fox for $650 million. acquired Overture for $1.63 billion (Upfront Ventures was an early Overture backer).