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Interview with Sean Broihier, Fine Art America

socalTECH

Fine Art America handles all of the details of fulfilling sales for images. You hit submit, and your images are instantly available for sale as prints on our website. and photographer is an online web presence and an order fulfillment partner. building a web site for him. had their first sales, which made us profitable.

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Interview with Quinn Curtis, BrightCloud

socalTECH

Last week, San Diego-based provider of web content classification and security services developer BrightCloud was acquired by Webroot , and we thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to founder Quinn Curtis about how the acquisition of his firm came about. Quinn, thanks for the time. Quinn, thanks for the time.

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Every Online User Platform Needs Revenue To Survive

Startup Professionals Musings

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Design a product or service that you can sell. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with almost three billion user accounts, all free. So let’s take a look.

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Channel partners can be golden for growth

Berkonomics

In 2006, I gave a keynote speech at the Newspaper Association of America’s national conference in Chicago. A Channel partner is a person or a company with a complementary service, who is knocking on the same doors as you, and who is connected. By Kim Shepherd. Compensation doesn’t have to be complicated, either.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Time will tell.

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How To Set A Balance Of User Growth Vs Profitability

Startup Professionals Musings

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Design a product or service that you can sell. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with well over two billion user accounts, all free.

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With $30M Infusion, Certona Aims for Bigger Share of Digital Retail

Xconomy

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. It wasn’t about raising multiple rounds and burning jet fuel. It has allowed us to scale in a very measured way.”.