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Impact Acquires ACTIVATE

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Santa Barbara-based Impact , which develops partnership management software, said this morning that it has acquired ACTIVATE , an influencer marketing platform which provides influencer discovery, program workflow, measurement, and analytics. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. We were in the center of the activity and thus would soon race against everyone else, many with much deeper pockets.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. Our platform helps them do that.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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He has raised more than $200 million on behalf of his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions. Pierce’s entrepreneurial activities are focused in the areas of digital currencies such as Bitcoin, games, gambling, ad tech and payments. Pierce also led the acquisition of Xfire from Viacom. More panelist to be announced soon.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

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a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Sangster lives in Los Angeles and is actively involved in improving early childhood education.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

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A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Mike continues to be actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. Geography - Rincon is now very active in the Bay Area. billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).