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Interview with Harry Lin, Lottay

socalTECH

This morning, Los Angeles-based Lottay (www.lottay.com) launched its online gifting site, announced its funding by DFJ Frontier, and also the appointment of former Evite GM Harry Lin as CEO. We spoke with Harry yesterday about the company. It was because of my Evite experience. I had been GM of Evite for just under two years.

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Congrats To The Presenting StartupDemo Companies!

Tech Zulu Event

After weeks of StartupDemo submissions we are now ready to announce the participating startup companies for the StartupDemo event being held at Wokano Sept. We took great consideration for every startup company that applied. Most people facing this problem resort to mass text messages, and long, frustrating email chains.

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How Event Farm Is Making Events A Part Of Your Sales Funnel

SoCal Tech Calendar

We spoke with co-founder Ryan Costello about Santa Monica-based Event Farm (www.eventfarm.com), on how its software technology is being used to power high end, VIP events for large companies. Ryan Costello: We're a software company. You can think of us as a super, high-end Evite, for the B2B, corporate space.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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Interview with David Wood, Eventene

socalTECH

David--a veteran of Microsoft, having been the lead developer of Microsoft Exchange--tells us why he started his company. The company is almost three years old. For example, if they're using Signupgenius, or Evite, then we're not trying to convert them. What does Eventene do? How long has the app been available?

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TechZulu Live from StartupDemo

Tech Zulu Event

We will be bringing you some of the hottest startups around to give you a quick rundown about their companies and get to know the entrepreneur behind those companies. Below are the companies you are going to hear about and get to know. We have a special treat for you. Definitely tune in Wednesday Sept. The Startups.

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Interview with Eden Jarrin, eDivvy

socalTECH

Eden Jarrin: The company was founded by Steven Ng, and was started about a year and a half ago. I was speaking on a conference and panel about branding and experience with my last company, we got along, and chatted. A customized email then goes out, and you're done. How is this company backed? Let's start with eDivvy.

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