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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. They are two different mentalities -- lasso the moon, or working on what you got until you have a platform and base, and go from there. How did acquisition come about? How did you end up at Unified Dispatch?

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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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