socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

What's your background and how did you decide to start the site? I was in advertising and marketing, working in Newport Beach on the Mazda account. Billy Fried: We first tested it in California, which was our launch market a year and a half ago. The idea was to have tent poles up in the most important leisure markets.

Activity 164

Activity Startup Sites Web 164

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MARCH 11, 2011

At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. So the Yellow Page business was always “pay for placement.&#. Insider Pages.

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

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MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. In terms of topics we spoke about: - Do VC’s send your presentations around to other people if they don’t fund you? This week was had Jason Calacanis as our guest.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285