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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you. Google knows it. THE FULL STORY.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. (I went to bed at 2am at the hotel and several people were texted me to try and summon me back to the bar). Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more.

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Why Online / Offline Mobile Integration is Going to be a Huge Business

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Google now has more than 500,000 advertisers with click-to-call mobile campaigns lit up. It’s why Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google, PepperJam & many more now all use RingRevenue to power their click-to-call strategies. 2) Harris Interactive IMShopping Poll (August 2009). (3) This is becoming a huge business.

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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. He started targeting the ad by location and interest, and the number of potential people he was reaching began decreasing on screen (Facebook tells you dynamically). You could just outspend.

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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

Tech Zulu Event

Also of note was Ryan Orrico’s launch of HandJob, a new form of job applicant screening and referral tracking. When using the Handjob app , users must shake the app up and down or side to side and out pops a pre-screened job applicant. All presentations were of extremely high quality and teams did a killer job. is also hiring.

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IBM’s Watson Analyzes Kanye West’s VMA Speech for Character Defects

Tech Zulu Event

The 38-year-old rapper and record producer is famous for marrying Kim Kardashian and for taking the microphone away from Taylor Swift as she was accepting the 2009 MTV VMA for Best Female Video. And look at that [points to screen]. West said that Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” video was “one of the best videos of all time.”