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Interview with Dan Tamkin, Unified Dispatch

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That's the story at Altadena-based Unified Dispatch , which was recently sold to the On-Demand Division of Veolia. Many entrepreneurs think about starting your own thing, did you ever think about that compared to turning around a company? How did acquisition come about? The firm's CEO, Dan Tamkin , tells us the story.

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Interview with Kelly Tompkins, AdventureLink

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Last week, Altadena-based AdventureLink (www.adventurelink.com) announced that it raised a Series A funding round, for the firm's adventure travel reservation network. Their idea was to catch enough consumers to scale, but they didn't understand the cost of acquisition, of finding customers, marketing, and advertising.

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