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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google. in a seed funding round. What's your background?

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APRIL 30, 2018

The business model, is people use this to do better marketing and sales targeting when they sell their own products. For example, if I'm a competitor to the Citrix Virtual Desktop software, from Vmware, I might want to know all of the companies who are using Citrix, so I can talk to them about how my products are better, and meet their needs.

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JUNE 16, 2009

It enables them to allow advertisers to run campaigns through affiliates, where you can drive calls and not just clicks. That affiliate passes that to the advertiser, and minutes or hours later will call the potential customer back at their phone number. There is 300 billion or so spent on advertising in the U.S.,

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We build products and services tied to mobile carriers. Those technologies allow us to scale and offer a superior product for customers. The other thing we do, is were very transparent about sharing data with them, like user data and advertising data. Whats the relationship of this company to Gary Winnick? I have a Ph.D.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

It's my belief that many marketers still measure in layers -- they might look at how direct mail, or search, or display, or TV, or brand advertising, or their sales force performs, in a certain swim lane. Advertisers are known for their creative focus, not focus on analytics. That was early on in the digital revolution in the 90's.

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JUNE 15, 2011

It also allows celebrities to talk to their fans, and offer them the opportunity purchase innovative, digital, personalized products like e-cards and invitiations. If you're an IP holder, if you're Coldplay, you can generate revenue from our innovative digital products, while building your fan base. That's more or less the key.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Bccthis just announced a version of their product which plugs into Gmail. Dave told us about how and why he and his co-founders--both previously executives at Twistbox--decided to start their own startup, specifically outside of the mobile industry, and a bit about the product. How long has Bccthis been around?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Richard Yen: The first thing I look for, is something unique in the product or service--not a me-too. Someone who has the demonstrated ability to build a product or service, that probably has done a startup before, and is an expert in the domain. Defensibility is also big--we're not interested in the me-too's without some unique IP.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Back to the product, can you talk more about how voting works? We're hoping to create a content rediscovery tool, which helps readers discovery yesterday's content and drive more advertising to publishers as a result of people finding that older, forgotten content. Chris Lyman: I woke up, and I had the six year itch at Fonality.

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