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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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Interview with Sean Broihier, Fine Art America

socalTECH

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. days, and it's all fully integrated back into our system which ships, tracks the information, and sends out an email.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. And now they want to revolutionize email.

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Finding Developers is Tough Again

SoCal CTO

I wouldn’t say it’s 1999 or even 2007, but it certainly has turned around. In between, I got an email from CJ Cenizal asking about this exact issue: I'm growing a social gaming startup, Elevated Games ( elevatedgames.com ) as Founder and CEO.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

Tech Zulu Event

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

Both Sides of the Table

Their first company was called Traffic.com, which they sold in March 2007 to Navteq for $180 million (not too shabby). Assistly is a customer support product designed to meet the needs of the current era of multi-channel touch points (think Twitter, email, chat, forum in addition to phone calls). Another example.

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

socalTECH

We were crowd sourcing artists and design. That tool is being used to drive traffic and acquire emails, which is why it's a part of Deal Current. We provide the software platform, and if a client needs some custom design we can quote them on creative and setup, or they can handle it on their own.

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