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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

Common revenue streams are consulting, training, support, customization, upgraded versions for corporate applications, etc. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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CurbStand: Looking To Create A Valet Parking Network

socalTECH

We caught up with CEO Serge Gojkovich to learn more about what the company is up to, and to hear more about the company''s acquisition of Curby this week. We just added a level of technology for them, on top of their valet operations. So how did this acquisition come about? What is Curbstand up to right now?

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How Jukin Media Is Turning Viral Video Into A Real Business

socalTECH

And, even more, how to do you manage the jump on the viral video train again, and keep those viral hits coming? That''s relevant, because of our third piece, where we have been hired by traditional media companies, to basically provide them a turnkey, outsources content acquisition team.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

InfoChachkie

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. If they don’t have a call center already with trained sales reps answering calls, they’re probably not a good fit.”.

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Interview with Jason Howe, CEO of Awarepoint

socalTECH

We do lots of training, integration, and comarketing, and they're our number one customer--we want to make sure their 155 people are absolutely successful, to help us drive market growth. The other thing to note is that there are lots of companies that are underfunded, and are going to be acquisition targets by the big medical oligopolies.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.).

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What Can You Learn From Ring’s Astounding Success?

Both Sides of the Table

We would have gladly followed Jamie (and Josh Roth, the CTO who is phenomenal and we’ve also known for a decade) right through an IPO if we could have. Traditional investors are so focused on “quantitative marketing” that he got a lot of advice that this money was better spent on online customer acquisition.

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