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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Calabasas-based online travelbooking site CheapAir.com , in what looks to be the first by a travel company, wil let its customers pay on installment for an air flight, through a partnership with financial services technology provider Affirm. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

Los Angeles-based CheckAlt , the provider of remote deposit capture and e-check services, mobile payment, and other related services, has added three credit unions as customers, the company said this week. Stern founded Vintage Filings, which he sold to PRNewswire in 2007. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 22, 2015

Green Dot said the patent relates to its use of geolocation for creating customized user experiences, as well as for risk management and fraud prevention. Pernikoff as inventors, and was filed by Green Dot way back in July of 2007. The patent names Samuel H. Altman, Nicholas T. Sivo, Mark Jacobstein, Brian R. Knapp, James F.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

After that, I had the opportunity to move to Australia in 2007, and joined a venture capital firm called Starfish Ventures. In 2007, the cleantech excitement was in full swing. Back when I was doing energy investing in 2007, there were only 7 gigawatts of solar power world wide. You then caught things like Web 2.0,

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

They typically have specific budgets lined up, and they're looking for ways to diversity, and also access new customers. I sold that business in late 2007, right before the debt crisis, and sold it to a public company in Australia. Our core competency is focusing on high quality customers to our advertisers.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

iChange offers up a site for personal counseling from licensed nutritionists, combined with custom meal plans and support groups. MacFarlane is the former CEO of InsiderPages, which he sold to Citysearch in 2007. Source of the new funding was not disclosed.

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MAY 11, 2010

Songin has been at RealD since 2007. Songin will be based in Europe, and oversee sales, customer service, and Cinema operations for the firm there. Mayson has been at RealD since 2008, and previously served at Kodak. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Dex One said it will continue to manage the Business.com site and support existing customers through an extended transition period. Business.com had been the latest success for Southern California entrepreneur Jake Weinbaum, who built the firm from a domain name into a firm with over $50M in revenues in 2007.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Los Angeles-based Oversee.net is in the midst of a major scandal today, as the firm revealed to customers that its SnapNames unit was the victim of a shill bidding scheme by a former employee. Industry publications are reporting that the former employee is now facing criminal charges for the shill bidding scheme.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The lawsuit is the second against Oversee.net, which revealed in November that it had uncovered a scheme by one of its employees to increase bids in SnapNames domain name auctions, which allows customers to bid on expired or expiring domain names. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Donnelly in 2007. That was a really fast stint, we started with only a couple of small customers but ended up taking it to $120K MRR and sold it to Home Depot at a significant multiple above revenue. The reason why, is my experience is in early stage sales and more specifically, in early stage customer development.

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MAY 19, 2009

The firm said the new software includes an enhanced user interface, new support for Indonesian/English and Pashtu/English translation, and better support for document formats, including Office 2007 and Open Office. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

The company was founded in 2007, and the initial emphasis was to deliver to end users a personalized content portal on their smart phone, learning what they like anticipate what they'd like to see, and pay for it using personalized advertising. So carriers are a major customer of yours? Why is that important for your customers?

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AUGUST 27, 2014

We spoke with one of those companies-- El Segundo-based ConsumerTrack (www.consumertrack.com)--which is a $30M, bootstrapped an online marketing company which is driving millions of customers to big name, financial customers. We rode that wave through 2007, until the housing market crashed, and we had to adapt.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

The privately held firm, which develops software used by companies to reconcile their balance sheets, said it had an increase in revenues of 45 percent, and three times the number of customers signed versus the same quarter last year. in 2007, and nearly $5M in 2008, according to numbers from the Inc. 500 list.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Aliso Viejo-based Buy.com is continuing to report good sales this holiday season, saying today that it has seen its revenues grow over 40 percent for the first 15 days of December, compared with 2007. Buy.com also reported that average customer orders are up by over 20 percent due to bigger purchases.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

in the similar quarter in 2007. The firm said that the global financial crisis has results in "sharply reduced demand" for semiconductors, which has affected the firm's customers. Cohu, which detailed the cost cutting moves as part of its quarterly results, said its sales dropped to $41.4M

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

We''ve put a spin on this, where you can use your own personalization or custom designs for your own Bluetooth headset, just like you would create a personalized case for your smartphone. For fifteen years, I owned four dry cleaners in Irvine, and sold those in 2007. Where''d the idea for the company come from? The market is changing.

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MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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JUNE 9, 2010

We started in December of 2007, and my background is from the apparel business. We learned from our customer base that 75 percent of the people who make a purchase at one of our sales are purchasing those brands for the first time. We've been focused on delivering customers with a lifestyle, and are a casual lifestyle company.

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JUNE 8, 2011

But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. We realized that no one had built a Groupon-like platform, so we built one because our customer asked for it. That's where Deal Current was born.

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JULY 6, 2015

We bought and sold domains, and it's now been over two million since 2007. The biggest sale I think was over $10 million fro a domain, and we have thousands of customers. What you really own, is your own domain name, and that allows you to own your customer and your own data. But, that started a whole idea of new domains.

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JUNE 10, 2013

That was back in 2007, when we started. The size of the market and the spending there was appealing, and also the fact that we already had customers. And, even if you did get an appointment, sometimes things would change at the last second, you might have changed your territory, or you might not even be at the company any more.

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MARCH 30, 2011

They had been slowly building their technology and growing customers, and it was a very much break-even type of business. Jeb Spencer: When we first met Accordent, they were doing less than $1M in revenue, and were located a block from the beach in Hermosa Beach, but we were amazed at the number of customers they already had acquired.

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MARCH 12, 2019

We have built an application services platform for vehicles, and our first customer was actually USAA. That's where we started to play with Honda, our next big customer, where we have built out these infotainment and commerce systems in a vehicle, with an ad platform on top of what we started as an incentive for safe driving.

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MAY 7, 2012

building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. I grew it from 2007 through. myself and two women who do customer service and tech support for me via phone and email. You could handle all the details of printing, framing things, collecting payments, dealing with shipping, and.

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AUGUST 8, 2016

We caught up with founder and CEO Mike Mothner --who we first interviewed back in 2007 --to catch up with the company, gets some hints and tips on growing a company, the challenges of bootstrapping, and why Wpromote hopes to be buying more companies in the future. It's a customer centric world. Now, it's long, and complex.

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JULY 15, 2015

However, our customers, even with Concur, find those solutions didn't meet all of their needs. We formed the company in 2007, came out with our first product in late 2008, and began selling in earnest in 2009. Customers would start evaluating them, and it would very quickly narrow to just two companies, us and Concur.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Mark Tapling: Since you last did an in depth interview with us in 2007, the company has doubled in size. Originally, you had a lot of government customers, and were just starting out with a few commercial customers. Language Weaver is backed by Palisades Ventures, the Tech Coast Angels, and The Athenaeum Fund.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

When I started in 2007, one thing we did even in the early days was engage with operators. However, just to clarify, our customers are actually the network equipment vendors. So, we decided to do 3G, and started with 3G customers earlier this year. We announced our first LTE customer in May, at the LTE World Summit.

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AUGUST 6, 2009

That allows our customers to manage that consumption, by controlling the electrical loads inside their business or home. For residential customers, we can include other services relevant to you, like community messaging, texting back and forth notes for the family, and weather information and news.

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APRIL 3, 2012

At the time, in 2007, Facebook had just announced they were opening up their API to third party developers. Michael Witz: We've been a customer of Joyent for a number of years, and have developed really good relationships with those folks. How did you start company? How did that happen? They're exceptionally talented and bright people.

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JULY 21, 2011

Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. Could you give an example of how a customer might use your service? How did the company come about? That, combined with being early on the social web, was the nexus from where MomentFeed came about.

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MAY 2, 2011

I ended up switching to selling on Stubhub in 2007, after eBay made it much more difficult to search for tickets. It is now very, very customer friendly. I scaled that business, and had all of my friends and relatives waiting in line to buy tickets, which I could resell on eBay. It ends up, our margins went way up.

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MARCH 4, 2009

That company was sold in 2007. And, we have our own custom signal processing technology that increases the efficiency of all those existing systems that I've just described. We call it customer discovery--we went out to talk about the problem of conversational memory retention.

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

These companies have built a leadership position in the market they serve, and they meet a mission critical need of their customer base. Our 2011 exits of Accordent Technologies and Del Mar Datatrac (DMD) put us in the top decile of performance for 2007 vintage year, private equity funds. That's what allows you to win in the end.

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MARCH 12, 2009

If you are a premium customer, we charge for the calls. The premium customer can buy that premium service in denominations of $25, $50, $100, or $200 dollars. John Nahm: We started in January of 2007, and self-funded for a year. It's 5 cents per call. How are you finding your conversion rates working with the freemium model?

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