socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

We are an offer-based platform that allows users to negotiate the price they buy and sell tickets for, on the secondary market. Educate us, and explain what's different about how you are handling ticket sales and how that's different from the many others out there? It's Priceline meets Stubhub. It ends up, our margins went way up.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We''ve also built a data driven platform, that allows us to drive millions of unique visitors to our network of sites every month, covering the banking, credit, and travel and vertical markets. We worked together for four years, and I ended up heading up media buying at that company, and he headed up sales.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based HauteLook (www.hautelook.com), an online private sales site, scored a major round of funding--raising $31M from Insight Venture Partners. Adam Bernhard: We're a platform that does flash sales. We started in December of 2007, and my background is from the apparel business.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

Skimlinks has proven effective for thousands of publishers (including, for a time, Pinterest), because its frictionless, self-serve platform automatically generates revenue from previously existing online content. I know Coull intimately, as it recently purchased RevUpNet , an online media agency which I Co-Founded with Ben Kiblinger in 2007.

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socalTECH

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. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Founded in 2007. To be fair to Ben Horowitz – I think he thinks this as well. Time will tell.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

And how are these concerns exacerbated given that these authors’ target audience is too young to buy cryptocurrency on platforms like Coinbase and Gemini? But monetizing fan fiction through online platforms is a trickier matter. This is different from how sales work in the existing art world.

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socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2013

RxVantage (www.rxvantage.com), based in Los Angeles, is looking to tackle that huge market with its medical scheduling software for pharmaceutical and medical sales reps and medical offices, and is venture backed by Slater Technology Fund and Javelin Venture Partners. That was back in 2007, when we started. What is RxVantage?

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socalTECH

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. So, that first part is just understanding how to engage, where, what platforms they are engaging on, and what the value of that is. It really helps to shorten our sales cycle significantly.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. For businesses like this, finding new ways to drive more of these high-value inbound sales calls is key. Our platform helps them do that.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

For today's interview, we talked with San Diego-based ShowUHow (www.showuhow.com), a firm which is providing both content and a software platform which allows e-commerce retailers to provide video instruction guides on the products they carry. The whole platform is build on the software-as-a-service model. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

One of the types of startups we see most of nowadays, are private sale, limited time bargain, and local group buying startups. People from San Francisco, Detroit, and elsewhere have requested that we duplicate or take the platform and brand, and incorporate it into their city and towns or suburban neighborhood.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. We have built SocialStay for scale so I think the ‘chasm’ is both a function of time and sales. You don’t need much… But what you do need is sales. Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar. So, they built an auction system, a self-service platform, and an ad-server from scratch.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

This is the time it takes for a bankruptcy or asset sale to occur. Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers. Or a quick flip. That is conformity. People buy at the wrong times.

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2011

They kept building really great functionality into the platform, and they were always ahead of the market, and always able to anticipate what customers wanted next. Jeb Spencer: We've still got around 25 percent of our 2007 fund. We raised our fund in 2006 to follow this exact model. Are you still investing out of that fund?

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The startup was so nascent that the sale would have been considered a short-term gain for tax purposes, which would have significantly reduced the Founders’ proceeds, making their small fortune even smaller. The term “flip” is used derisively by institutional investors to describe the sale of young companies. To Flip Or Not To Flip.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The startup was so nascent that the sale would have been considered a short-term gain for tax purposes, which would have significantly reduced the Founders’ proceeds, making their small fortune even smaller. The term “flip” is used derisively by institutional investors to describe the sale of young companies. To Flip Or Not To Flip.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Acquisition Pricing 124

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Milo Sindell: Knowledge Genie is a software platform that anybody can use to capture, package, and publish what they know into an interactive online software application. Our online publishing platform allows users to monetize and share what they know. What is the idea behind Knowledge Genie? How did the company start?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM. It's along sales cycle, but the beauty is that when you're done, you've got client software which a consumer can use, specialized for their device, and able to do cools things, things that you couldn't do if you didn't work directly with the carrier. So it's been a year.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

So without my weighing into the pro’s / con’s of this I can say that I believe it will capture a large segment of the market but leave room for “open platforms&# to play a big role. Thus you see television manufacturers rushing to create content ecosystems, app platforms, TV OS’s and Internet offerings.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Looking at MySpace and Facebook, their own internal ad sales teams might get a lower CPM, but we find that games and applications sitting in canvas pages are actually getting slightly higher click through rates. We'll do a rev share with those platforms. How do you make money in providing these services?

Social Media 113

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Another big innovator in helping manage cloud implementations is Okta , founded by Todd McKinnon, the former VP of Engineering at Salesforce.com (who knows a thing or two about cloud services) and Freddy Kerrest who was senior in biz dev & sales at Salesforce and was there from 2002-07. Cloud Data Platform.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM).

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Looking at MySpace and Facebook, their own internal ad sales teams might get a lower CPM, but we find that games and applications sitting in canvas pages are actually getting slightly higher click through rates. We'll do a rev share with those platforms. How do you make money in providing these services?

Social Media 100

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

When I first got into the industry it was 2007. I show charts on housing, structural unemployment, home equity re-financings that we spent meaning less spending power post crash, new housing sales, debt-to-income ratios, public-sector job problems that will cause crises in cities and states across the US. On your tech platforms.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. I don't have a long sales cycle, because I'm talking to people who have already chosen Jetty. I also worked in sales groups for Websphere, and bootstrapped Webtide--all right in a row. They all were very different companies.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Loren Bendele joined Savings.com in January 2007 as the CEO.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

« Open mobile platforms and Facebook developer refugees. It is leads you need to make sales in B2B. December 2007 (7). November 2007 (4). October 2007 (11). September 2007 (15). August 2007 (7). July 2007 (9). June 2007 (18). May 2007 (21). April 2007 (27).

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

The reason for that is simple, when Stephan started the company in 2007, he couldn’t find the specialist who could deliver or develop highly sophisticated and complicated algorithms that we have developed. Got it, so I see the development team is based out of Austria? The development and product management is primarily based in Austria.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

He went from recruiter to IT manager to technical sales… Then, he did such a great job in sales that we had to build up more infrastructure for our ad-serving and email delivery platform to support the increased demand. . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer?

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