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Interview with Wes Brodsky, SaveFans

socalTECH

We are an offer-based platform that allows users to negotiate the price they buy and sell tickets for, on the secondary market. The easiest way to think about it is that we're like the Priceline for the secondary ticket market. Plus, even when they do sell a ticket on the secondary market it's usually for a specific price.

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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

socalTECH

So, if you're a marketer, how do you track and encourage those word-of-mouth recommendations? We have our own suite of applications for Android, iOS, Mac, and Pac, and so forth, but our primary go to market is working with the existing channels, carriers, device OEMs, as well as social media and chat applications.

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Catching Up With Dave Hagan, Boingo

socalTECH

A convergence is happening, and it's thoroughly complementary rather than being competitive. They were really a thriving, early market. We did not get into the distributed antenna systems business intentionally, but entered the market through Concourse. How did you end up going from software to distributed antenna systems?

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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. It's a trillion dollar, niche market. Maria is our Chief Marketing Officer, and doing an awesome job.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: So, you need to develop a product?

Frank Addante

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Bringing in Steady engineers too early could result in a less competitive product, bringing them in too late could result in instability. What is the Rubicon Project? Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

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). startup scene so hot. What makes L.A.

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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

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. 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. What is the Rubicon Project?

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