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Render Media: Creating A Digital Publisher In The Social Age

socalTECH

We came together in 2008, to focus on digital content. Back then, it was a much different game, and there was not much of an emphasis on social and more on SEO. million in funding, but ended up burning through it. He was a co-founder of Applied Semantics, which started the AdSense technology, which they sold to Google in 2003.

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Interview with John Tomich, Onestop Internet

socalTECH

We had the chance to talk with co-founder John Tomich about the funding and the firm, which operates e-commerce sites for fashion brands and others. The sixth is marketing analytics, including SEM/SEO, collecting customer names, emails -- we use ExactTarget for emails, and Omniture for Analytics. in a Series A venture round.

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Recycled Bride Wants You To Save On Your Big Day | Wed Without Tears

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She was a painter (art not houses), who saw an opportunity and went for it, funding the company by taking a loan from her parents and selling off all of her paintings. Recycled Bride uses PayPal to hold the funds until the seller ships their item and enters a tracking number into the system. Any funding yet? Funded by LaunchPad.

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A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive

SoCal CTO

What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars. What can they do for funding, where can they go for help? Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 This is something Ive always wondered about.

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Innovation and Geography

SoCal CTO

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

Leave a reply Find related posts in Social Web , X-Robots-Tag , Redirects , URI shortening , Trolling , Web development , Crap , Crawler Directives , Robots Meta Tags , Twitter , robots.txt Thoughts, findings, notes and opinions on Web development, Web search and SEO - not always serious and sometimes polemic. SEO Mofo ! )

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Interview with Billy Fried, Kijubi

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In January of 2008, we launched CalActive , which we thought might be a regional business. We're self funded as our own angel investor, and we thought based on the numbers in Hawaii it would be a nice sideline. How is the company funded? Billy Fried: It's self funded, and I've invested about $300,000 to date.

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