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Interview with Vic Caretti, Loudvine

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Vic Caretti: The site was launched in April of 2008. We are seeing lots of traction in the 14 cities we are live in, and people are wanting to work with us, including bands, PR people, management firms, the venues themselves, and local advertisers. It's really been word of mouth, really viral, because we've never advertised.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

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This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. Spun off from Freewebs in 2008, based in Palo Alto. Venture Financings we Discussed. Total raised: $17.0mm.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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But we had a great chance to talk about the recent moves that Twitter has made to “plug holes” and changing its “TOS” on advertising. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. 50 Ways to Expose Yourself to Randomness - Ben Casnocha: The Blog , May 16, 2010 Cal Newport's three step way to become interesting: 1.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Does advertising work in the social networking world? Yammer was launched on stage at TechCrunch 50 on September 8, 2008 and won Best in Show. in Computer Science.

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Tealium Adds $35M to Expand Technology, Sharpen Customer Focus

Xconomy

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7

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Every Startup Needs Six Social Media Initiatives

Startup Professionals Musings

It highlights the story of how United Airlines in 2008 paid no attention to social media as Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. Last year, Facebook’s revenue from advertising was over $5 billion, which was a 40% year-over-year increase for the last quarter. Marty Zwilling.