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Social Search – What Entrepreneur Needs To Know

InfoChachkie

It is no secret that Pinterest and other social commerce sites have begun to dial in the commerce equation. Search Meets Social = Commerce. The combination of Search and Social is redefining the way marketers are allocating their ad budgets. How would you advise marketing teams which split out brand and commerce?

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Idealab

Tech.Co

Bill Gross started Idealab in 1996 to create and operate pioneering technology companies. The structure of Idealab has allowed us to test many ideas at once and turn the best of them into companies, attracting the human and financial capital necessary to bring them to market.

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Interview with Dan LeBlanc, CEO and Co-founder, Daasity

socalTECH

We spoke with CEO and co-founder Dan LeBlanc , a veteran of ProFlowers and FTD, on how he started the company and he problem the startup is solving for direct to consumer brands. A lot of those brands, on the e-commerce side, are becoming more data driven. What does your startup do? Dan LeBlanc: Daasity is about two years old.,

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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Interview with Scott Morrow, Curatemedia

socalTECH

That's why we exist, and why we are a company, to help consumers figure out that fundamental question. Scott Morrow: Sports/outdoors is quite interesting, that's the fastest growing lifestyle category in e-commerce. How we do so, is we help consumers discover new products and shop for them. There's a really important distinction there.

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7 Strategies For Beating The Failure Odds Online

Startup Professionals Musings

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with e-commerce, your latest invention, or personal services. Search engines like Google are still the primary method for finding information on the Internet. It seems like everyone has an Internet startup these days.

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How to Measure & Track Marketing

Jason Nazar

For example, if it costs $1,000 on Google paid search to get 500 people to visit your site and five of those people purchase an item, your CAC is $200 ($1,000/5). By asking this one question of your customers: “How likely is it that you would recommend [Company X] to a friend or colleague?” Free Product Metrics.