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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. What happened? Until we weren’t.

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ExactTarget Acquires Pardot and iGoDigital to Redefine its Marketing Platform

Tech Zulu Event

Email marketing and cross-channel interactive marketing saas solutions provider ExactTarget has acquired Pardot, a marketing automation provider and iGoDigital, web personalization provider in a move that will revolutionize its marketing platform. Pardot to Redefine Marketing Automation. Over 100million in Cash.

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Its BlogWorld Time! Los Angeles Get Ready!

Tech Zulu Event

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service. Make sure to tune in for all the live action.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

Tech Zulu Event

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. CallFire technology is already playing a prominent role in 2012 political races across the spectrum. Clients have included MoveOn.org, Rep.

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

socalTECH

That one client, plus a need in the market really drove the product. Jimmy Hendricks: My background is I spent a year at Active.com in 2007 and 2008. Before that, I ran direct sales for companies in college, including selling print advertising that went into about 80 markets. How do you think the industry will shake out?

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Its BlogWorld Time! Los Angeles Get Ready!

Tech Zulu Event

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service. Make sure to tune in for all the live action.

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Google For Icons | IconFinder Providing The Best for Developers and Designers

Tech Zulu Event

The public version was launched in 2007 and got on the front page of Digg, on Lifehacker and Smashing magazine. From 2007 to 2009 I added a lot of icons and made minor improvements. IconFinder will become a market place where you will be able to buy and sell your icons. So it really got a good start.

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