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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Tragos is a veteran of technology industry here, having come from Spin Media (formerly, Buzznet) with his two other co-founders. Chris Tragos: Typically, with an advertising RFP, a campaign will come pre-loaded with a standard ad spot and creative. But, you still have lots of ideas. What is Jetpack, and what do you do?

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JANUARY 11, 2019

Los Angeles- and New York-based Steereo (www.steereo.com) has a new idea: partner those artists with ride sharing drivers, and pay those ride sharing drivers to play their music to the ever-changing variety of people who hop in their vehicles. Where'd you get the idea for the service? Finally, how are you funding the company?

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JULY 27, 2015

One of the side effects of the war over Flash, has been with advertisers--particularly in Hollywood--who rely on Flash to help display their advertising banners and video to users. Matt Cooper: What we're really trying to do, is reshape the advertising space. We've figured out how to take the banner into 2016 and beyond.

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APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. First of all, what's the idea behind StockTwits, for people who haven't used the service? Through Howards investment in betaworks, he also owns early shares in Twitter. It's fun, I guess.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Miso Media. Miso Media's guitar learning app is changing how people learn music, listening to musicians, letting them know if they're playing the right notes, and teaching them how to play a guitar, all from their iPad. Earbits has created a service which lets you browse through over 200 stations of streaming audio, advertising free.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

Los Angeles- and New York-based Steereo (www.steereo.com) has a new idea: partner those artists with ride sharing drivers, and pay those ride sharing drivers to play their music to the ever-changing variety of people who hop in their vehicles. Where'd you get the idea for the service? Finally, how are you funding the company?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Roberty Flynn: We are building what we see as the next generation of business to business media. However, as we have seen in the last few years, traditional media has been failing. That will primarily be focused on ad sponsorships, and selling advertising via lead generation, CPC, white papers, and so on, to generate revenue.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Kanaan Jemili: uCast Global is a digital media company that is looking at creating a scalable global solution for online video. Kanaan Jemili: Garry Winnick had the idea a few years ago, when he saw the shift happening from traditional video to digital video. We caught up with Kanaan to learn more about uCast Global. What is uCast?

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yesterday, Google announced that it was shutting down its Google Audio efforts--the search engine giant's efforts to try to sell radio advertising. Broadcast can convey the idea of making a purchase, and can motivate a purchase--but, by definition, it's not as precise and targeted as search. Broadcast isn't like that.

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MARCH 2, 2012

It's not an uncommon experience, and one which drove Holden Steinberg and Jason Crilly to start PageWoo (www.pagewoo.com), a service which is aimed at helping businesses create mobile-friendly landing pages for their advertisements. Our main goal is to get with the advertising networks, and we're now working with advertising networks in town.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The fund--started by Brian Garrett and Rick Smith --has been focused on digital media investments, and so far has made investments in six companies. We're describing ourselves as a micro-cap venture fund, focused on digital media opportunities in the emerging ecosystem of Southern California. What do you mean by infrastructure?

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Haro is from the entertainment industry, and has served at Maverik Digital, GetGlu, Penske Media Corp, along with Flixster, Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango. Venice, California-based anonymous messaging app developer Whisper said Tuesday that it has named Shelby Huston Haro as the company's Vice President of Sales. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

Among one of the fastest growing industries--despite what has been a stagnant economy--is Internet advertising, which has continued to grow strongly over the past two years. For today's interview, we spoke with Tim Cadogan , CEO of OpenX, to hear more about the firm's growth on the strength of Internet advertising, and what the firm is up to.

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APRIL 14, 2010

Lolita was founder of ModernMom.com, which she sold to Richard Rosenblatt's Demand Media last year, and we caught up with Lolita to learn more about her newest venture. That's where the initial idea came for Gloss Network. Lolita Carrico: Social media had a lot to do with it, for sure. What is Gloss Network?

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Jed Simon: The idea came from recognizing a pain point in the ad tech ecosystem. On one hand, you've got publishers, on the other, advertisers. Even with quality publishers and advertisers, there's still a lag in payment timing between the advertisers and publishers of anywhere from 90 to 120 days.

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JUNE 5, 2012

The two sat down with us to explain the idea behind the company. Explain the idea behind StyleSaint? I had some theories about ways to innovate, and we started working on those ideas to start the company. Brian Garrett: The way I describe it, is it's a fashion, media, and commerce company.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. What's the idea behind Sometrics? Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company. So who is using your software?

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JULY 20, 2011

However, it was an idea and concept which had been brewing for awhile, and besides, I had a personal interest in starting my own company and wanting to be an entrepreneur. The driving force for me was the gap in the market which I saw, a disruption in media consumption patterns. Everyone knows this. Jennifer Sargent: It's funny.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

My background is I worked for consumer websites for two years, and digital agencies for two years, and I have a strong background in media. How did the whole idea for Unbucket come about? Instead, what we'll be doing is building an advertising marketplace on stated intention.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. What's the idea behind Sometrics? Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company. So who is using your software?

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JULY 8, 2009

Los Angeles-based Ace Metrix (www.acemetrix.com) launched its software-as-a-service, TV advertising rating service last month, and we spoke with the firm's CEO and co-founder, Steve Goldman, recently to learn more about the firm. Steve Goldman: Ace Metrix is actually the first, on-demand measurement service of TV advertising effectiveness.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

We set up a digital media fund, which had the goal of investing in new digital media properties, ideas, and concepts. The digital media fund funded the company, and it's unique, in that Ross Levinsohn and I are incubating it ourselves in our office, and are running the company today.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Peter Hoskins: Mania TV sells, produces, packages, and distributes original programming on the Internet and other new media platforms. We sell advertising and have been very fortunate to have the best brands advertise on our network. 90 of the top 200 brands have advertised with ManiaTV through our history.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

My background is that I was at IAC, focused on advertising solutions and advertising engagement. He had the idea that as a comedian and performer making videos, someone needed to create technology to add personalization and discovery around how we laugh, exactly as you get those things now for music and other forms of content.

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JUNE 27, 2011

When I shoed up with a few pages of conceptual, early stage ideas around consumer finance, it was immediately captivating, and it really lined up with what he wanted to do. The idea is that if you put those dreams up, it will give you some context and make paying attention to your finances worthwhile. I think it's really needed.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Culver City-based Lootsie (www.lootsie.com) has createe a product which ties together those loyalty reward programs with the advertising and marketing efforts of brands, to help both those mobile developers and marketers. We work with a lot of brands who have tried advertising on mobile, but wanted a better solution than what's out there now.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

This morning, Woodland Hills-based FatTail (www.fattail.com) announced a venture round from Velocity Interactive Group for its software for managing online advertising. Ross Levinsohn is a board member at FatTail and a venture capitalist at Velocity Interactive (www.velocityig.com), and headed up Fox Interactive Media's buy of MySpace.

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OCTOBER 20, 2015

David Dundas: When you are scrolling through a social media feed, there are certain things that make you stop when you're viewing that feed. Fortunately our previous business was an advertising business, and we processed terabytes and terabytes of data a month. What interesting things have you learned from this? Color is one of those.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

It's not all that often that you hear of a local startup being acquired after only raising less than $1M in funding, because the company was growing so fast, rather than because an idea didn't pan out. Kixer develops mobile advertising software which helps publishers and connects mobile web users with apps. Keith Bonnici: For sure.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

It does the work for them, and uses the data to make intelligent recommendations specifically for that person's advertiser. Addressing the other point, of automated tools--led by companies like Google, which allows advertisers to manage their own campaigns--have actually opened up a door to us.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. We had a good relationship with the team, and they are at the sweet spot where they understand media, small and medium-sized businesses, and it was a great fit. What's your background?

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APRIL 15, 2016

Where did the company and idea come from? Gatsby was a pivot on a couple of other ideas. We're not testing the algorithm on influencers yet, but so far in testing, people have been willing to share the brand on social media for that discount. We're doing that before the transaction. I love the book The Great Gatsby.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

The reason for this business, is folks are always going on social media to recommend products to their friends, but they're not making any money from it. If you're a big influencer, you might get paid by a brand, but every day, people are providing word-of-mouth advertising, posting about their favorite things.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

We can take a group of customers and figure out who has been to the store in the last six months, and set up a promotion to offer them 20 percent off, and reach those customers through digital media, emails, and other channels, allowing businesses to really re-engage their guests. We can also merge that with their own, online data.

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MAY 16, 2012

The idea was to save users time, and do the research for them to look at candidates. It's been a self funded project, and we haven't raiesd any money yet, and haven't done any advertising. We started as roommates, and became good friends, and began bouncing ideas back and forth. It's been spread by word of mouth by users.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

This year's fest has expanded to included panels on how to grow your startup internationally, maintain your company culture, manage developers in multiple countries, and reach mainstream audiences using TV advertising combined with digital. In the first phase of many industries, you have an explosion of new ideas and companies.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

For today's profile, we decided to talk with Taher Scherzay , Founder of FavRav (www.FavRav.com), a Los Angeles-based firm which has created a Facebook application to help small businesses find customers through social media, and also allow consumers to better tap the referral network of their friends. What's the idea behind FavRav?

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