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Interview with Hamet Watt, True Ventures

socalTECH

Hamet is now helping True Ventures look at investments in Southern California, and we thought it would be worthwhile to talk to him about the firm's new interest here, his role, plus his insights into where the advertising industry is now. Was there any specific interest in Southern California?

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Siemer Summit: Connecting Global Digital Media & Technology Leaders

Tech Zulu Event

This month, Siemer and Associates hosted its 4th Annual invitation-only Silicon Beach Summit at Casa Del Mar and Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, California. The event also showcased a variety of promising startups from digital media, mobile, cloud, entertainment, advertising, and eCommerce. Ninja Metrics. Silver Push.

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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

socalTECH

We're describing ourselves as a micro-cap venture fund, focused on digital media opportunities in the emerging ecosystem of Southern California. It's all that stuff that allows publishers and advertisers to better understand their user base and how to effectively monetize it. They've got some nice metrics behind them.

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Interview with Jay Goss, exactly.me

socalTECH

Jay Goss , CEO of the startup--who is a veteran startup CEO here in Southern California-- talked to us about the new startup, which was developed by the technical co-founder of AskJeeves. What is exactly.me? Jay Goss: exactly.me is the app behind the company known as exactly Messaging Inc. exactly.me READ MORE>>.

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Clinton Foy: Why We Bought Our Own E-Sports Team, the Immortals

socalTECH

It's super interesting, in particular, for Southern California, where Blizzard and Riot Games have been really helping to lead that charge, both locally and internationally. Southern California companies are fundamentally part of e-sports, and both of those companies have become multi-billion dollar companies.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

and also to local advertisements. I'm working quite a bit with startups who are leveraging social media, but I'm finding it hard to predict success and metrics. And how can an early stage company think about social media relative to important startup metrics (see [link] )? How did you do that?

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. they have purchasing intent ).*. m pleased.

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