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AUGUST 21, 2011

In the Internet era somehow as an industry we’ve subscribed to the folklore that every interaction is best computerized. The first investment I ever made as a VC, RingRevenue , was an easy one for me because it combined three key areas for me: it combined telephony / Internet, performance-based marketing & a perfect team construct.

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Mobile Advertising Affiliate Internet 329

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MAY 4, 2010

They were started in affiliation with IdeaLab and were the first-round lead in PayPal. They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d. eCommerce is hot again! We also discussed the fact that an IPO often doesn’t mean the founders or investors can take too much money off the table.

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IPO .Net Venture Capital Strategic Investors 236

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Silicon Valley Southern California Los Angeles Semantic 313

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MARCH 11, 2013

affiliate and referral marketing on the web. Likelihood of Confusion -trademark, copyright and Internet Law. Internet trends. Internet TV. State of the Internet. Custora â?? customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. Highrise â?? small business CRM.

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