socalTECH
JUNE 4, 2012
Los Angeles-based Fandango , the movie ticketing and information service, said today that it has had the best ever number in May for traffic and ticket sales, for the company's entire 12-year history. Fandango is owned by Comcast, which acquired the movie site back in 2007. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
AUGUST 20, 2010
The company was founded in 2007, and the initial emphasis was to deliver to end users a personalized content portal on their smart phone, learning what they like anticipate what they'd like to see, and pay for it using personalized advertising. What is Sidebar all about? So how does this fit into the mobile world and B2B?
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InfoChachkie
MARCH 3, 2011
In the spirit of the “land grab” mentality of the day, we emphasized usage of our screen sharing technology with no thought applied to how we would convert such users into paying customers. We then sorted these email addresses by company and initiated targeted sales campaigns wherever we identified a critical mass of users.
socalTECH
MARCH 4, 2010
Do you screen all of the documents on the marketplace, or how does that work? Jason Nazar: We screen the profiles, but we don't screen the content. We want to make sure the marketplace is for professional content, so we screen to make sure the seller is a professional or small business owner, or a startup or entrepreneur.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2010
The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Founded in 2007. To be fair to Ben Horowitz – I think he thinks this as well. Time will tell.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2010
The created a hegemony that delayed innovation until January 2007 when the iPhone was introduced. This is happening in spades now on YouTube as a new generation of viewers is being served up by a new generation of TV production houses that are currently under the radar screen of many people. This will change in the next 2 years.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). That ended up as a $200 million sale to Microsoft. We take that number, and send them a one-time PIN code.
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