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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

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We also do lots of things in-venue, including mobile ticketing, integrating with Ticketmaster, Comcast, and many other ticketing providers. Combining that with my previous experience, which was in the platform and SaaS market, and sports, was really a home run. We split that advertising revenue with our partners.

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Building an Online Brand - Startups Uncensored

SoCal Tech Calendar

We are joined this month by Sean Moriarty, the former CEO of TicketMaster. During his time at Ticketmaster, Moriarty led the company through its multiple acquisitions and strategic investments. And by Blake Irving, the (Former) Corporate Vice President, Windows Live Platform Group. See [link] (more).

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Impact Radius Gets $30M For Affiliate Marketing Software

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Impact Radius--let by startup veteran Per Pettersen--said the new funding will go towards its platform, fund developmentof new products and services, and also to global expansion.

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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

socalTECH

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. It's almost like native advertising, which recognizes an article mention is a hotel and turning it into a link. How does this work?

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Interview with Harry Lin, Lottay

socalTECH

As you probably know, PayPal just opened up their platform to outside developers, and we took a look at that and the opportunity it presented, and build something based on the PayPal API. People hate fees when you do that, they hate it when they are charged for taking money from an ATM, for Ticketmaster when it charges a fee.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). Were all connected. Sponsored by Westin.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. I started dabbling with a few ideas around online advertising, search engines and other random projects. Zondigo, Inc. Startup 3.0:

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