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ThinkNear Among SoCal's First Accelerator Exits

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The acquisition Tuesday of ThinkNear , the mobile advertising firm headed by Eli Portnoy, looks to be among the first accelerator-incubated companies in Southern California. for ThinkNear Tuesday morning, and make the company part of its mobile, local advertising group. TeleNav said it would pay $22.5M

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Thank you to our sponsors and advertisers

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Once again, we'd like to thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Advertisers. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. Tags: advertisers sponsors. They include: Sponsors. Helping entrepreneurs succeed.

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Pandora IPO's SoCal Connections

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Kraft co-founded Pandora with Tim Westergren when it was known as Savage Beast, and is now COO of Pasadena-based UberMedia , the Twitter client and advertising startup headed by Idealab's Bill Gross; Gotcher sits on Pandora's board of directors.

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Three SoCal Startups That Beat Snapchat To $100M In Revenues

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OpenX and Steelhouse are in the online advertising industry, and Thrive Market is an e-commerce company focused on organic food. OpenX said in January it just passed $140M in revenues; Steelhouse said it had $130M in revenues in 2015 at the end of January , and Thrive Market disclosed it passed a $100M run rate this week. READ MORE>>.

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

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We have traditionally been a company heard about through word of mouth, radio advertising (now our own show) and from a Mini sighting. Our new customer acquisition has grown and our costs have plummeted. We are actually getting paid now to obtain customers, so our customer acquisition costs are now negative. Love the minis!

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Spooky thought: Where would we be without our supporters?

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As we go into Halloween this weekend, we want to thank all of our sponsors, advertisers, and members, who make it possible for us to exist. Advertisers. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. Tags: sponsor advertising. Thanks in particular to: Sponsors. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com).

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Thanks to socalTECH's Sponsors!

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Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Advertisers. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. They include: Sponsors. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Technology.

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