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APRIL 15, 2016

To get a discount, we ask customers to share information on the brand on Twitter and in the future, other social networks, and that discount is based on how influential they are for that brand. Where did the company and idea come from? Gatsby was a pivot on a couple of other ideas. We're doing that before the transaction.

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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 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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OCTOBER 20, 2015

David Dundas: Decisive analyzes images and videos on social networks, to help brands understand what makes their fans want to share and not share. Fortunately our previous business was an advertising business, and we processed terabytes and terabytes of data a month. What is Decisive? David Dundas: This is hard stuff.

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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 23, 2013

Justin Mateen: The vision for Tinder, is about social discovery. There are plenty of other social networks out there, who do a good job of connecting you with your existing network of friends. Do you have any idea how many people are actually going beyond the app and actually meeting in person?

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MAY 11, 2009

What's the idea behind LetSimonDecide? Ricardo Solar: The idea is to help people make decisions, any type of decision. The idea behind LetSimonDecide is there is now one place where you can structure your analysis process. The social networking and sharing will get richer.

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APRIL 28, 2010

So, we were toying around with ideas, when the idea behind Bccthis came up. So what's the idea behind Bccthis? What's the idea behind the Twitter support? We thought about where else we could apply it to, and thought about the various social networking services, and specifically, Twitter.

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JUNE 30, 2010

The idea emerged from that real life pain in the market, and as we like to say, we've grown incrementally from there. Tom Grasty: There are, as I like to say, no shortage of online video editing platforms, online video editors, or social networking sites, even though there are fewer online editors now than eighteen months ago.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Matthew spoke to us to give us a better idea of what the company offers and why it was started. What's the idea behind Zubican? It's a full-blown, B2B social network. So, the core revenue model is online advertising. B2B advertising is really an interesting story. It's a problem for ad networks.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

What's the idea behind Orgoo? Michael Kantor: The idea behind Orgoo is to solve what is a very large problem out there, which is that communications is fragmented into many different services. We're advertising supported, what a lot call a premium/freemium service. That's our initial target.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Social media. Social networking. Social games. Matthew Jenusaitis is the CEO of OCTANe , an Orange County startup accelerator whose mission is to connect people and ideas with capital and resources. Advertise on VentureBeat. socaltech socalcto Streaming media. Streaming video. Smartphones.

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MAY 15, 2010

Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Following several completed advertising campaigns, Ad.ly

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FEBRUARY 25, 2009

What's the idea behind Tibesti? In other words, we really want to take social shopping to the next level, and make it product focused. We do no advertising on that part of the site, and make sure it is fair and balanced. Mike explained how he went from the founding team at Starz Encore to the startup.

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