socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Dinesh Ravishankar: CallFire is a platform that allows businesses to automate their conversations with their customers. Dinesh Ravishankar: We were doing software development for various companies in Southern California, out of my condo in West LA. What is CallFire? How did you end up in this market?

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. What's the business model behind the site--it looks like this is advertising driven? Dan Yomtobian: 100 percent of our revenues come from advertisers, and from people clicking on sponsored listings. It's pretty much been all organic.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Taher Scherzay: FavRav is basically a platform that allows small businesses to get a footprint with customers, using the referral network of social media. I have always been in engineering, and was a software developer for some time, and also Director of Engineering. We redesigned our service and migrated to another platform.

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Startup Newsletter Customer Custom 193

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing. We were able to crank out software code at a much greater pace than was ever possible for. Apple had a store.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The platform connects foodies to restaurants for a win-win situation for both parties. The platform uses an iPhone app and website to help users make decisions quickly and confidently while also helping them share their valuable restaurant experiences with others. myfab5 is a platform that reinvents the restaurant review.

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Software Review Technical Review Writing Startup 79

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

He is the author of “ Joel on Software ” and I was a reader nearly 10 years ago when I had never heard of Fred Wilson, Brad Feld and VentureHacks didn’t exist. SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Advertising clients include: Sony, Microsoft, NBC, and Clicker.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Today's Sun storage platforms are based on the OS we had developed at Procom. This technology has been quite sophisticated to develop, and we have a staff of about 18 software developers who have been developing the back end engine. Once that transaction was complete, I got up and started looking around.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. . Bambi Francisco. Rick Heitzmann. Prior to founding FirstMark Capital, Rick was a Partner with Pequot Ventures.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. ► May (5) the Rubicon Project The Journey Startup 6.0:

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Entrepreneurism / Monetization Advertising, ecommerce, monetization. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization advertising effectiveness, content distribution, monetization. . How UX and the Cloud are Transforming Software. Entrepreneurism / Monetization design, Recruiting, Software development. . Unger, John T.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

After leaving Juno, he founded his own software company, Fog Creek Software. In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office.

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