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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

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Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. When you look at social messaging, and talk about social messaging, we're talking about social media, text messaging, email, and chat applications. The majority of our time is now spent online. We're taking a different approach.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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Social media users are over 60% more likely to check email at least four times a day than those who don’t use social media. Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. PHONE CALLS.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. This has prompted many people to question whether advertising “in stream&# and on Twitter is a good thing or a bad thing. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising?

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

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The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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I live in the city of Santa Monica. In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. Let me use LA as an example.