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Interview with Wes Brodsky, SaveFans

socalTECH

On the primary side, when you're talking about Ticketmaster or Tickets.com, or the box office, they usually price seats by bundling them into price groups. If you understand the primary side, it's not necessarily Ticketmaster that is setting prices, or bearing the risk on the sale. It is now very, very customer friendly.

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Catching Up With Dave Hagan, Boingo

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We had launched in 2001 as a Wi-Fi service provider, putting software on customer's laptops, so that when they traveled from hotspot to hotspot, their laptop could automatically connect to the next hotspot. We're completely invisible to that carrier's customers. What's Boingo's business look like nowadays?

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Digitzs: Taking On The Pain Of Payment Processing

socalTECH

That percent is actually all over the board, very complex, and very competitive. The example is, there might be a platform that processes ticket payments for a marathon race, or one for a concert�such as Ticketmaster. Those are our customers. In the middle section are platforms like Uber, Airbnb, or Taskrabbit.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: The Kool-Aid Test: “Why do I need anything? Why do I need yours? Why do I need it now?"

Frank Addante

Put yourself in the shoes of your customers or users. Answering only one or two of these questions won’t work. > I need to send marketing, e-commerce or e-statements emails to my customers to drive revenue or reduce costs. because they are so focused on being better than their competition. Why do I need it now?"

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). Register Now! Be extra productive. Learn more.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. StrongMail’s software ensures reliable and timely delivery of their critical customer communications. Some ideas lasted months, others lasted hours.

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