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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

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San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. How was it you ended up in San Diego? We're taking a different approach.

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

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However, San Diego-based Deal Current (www.dealcurrent.com) appears to have found a sustainable niche in the industry--not providing daily deals, but powering those multiplying deal sites, including a number of major newspaper groups. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising.

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Interview with Howard Lindzon, StockTwits

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Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. You'd have to come up with an idea, gather the truth, write it, produce it, shoot it, edit it, and when you had the product, you had to figure out how to distribute it. Advertising is one of our revenue streams right now, but not our core focus.

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Interview with Vince Bianco, Newsforce

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San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Have you had any issues with that here?

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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There’s one attribute (coming soon) that I need to have in order to write a check but I don’t believe is vital for success. Examples: There is a company called GreenLink Networks based in San Diego and Philadelphia. When I first met the team in San Diego they had only been working on their software for 5 months.

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TZ Startup Hot Seat | Joey Flores CEO of Earbits

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In this interview, we catch up with an amazing TechZulu Spotlight alumnus, Joey Flores, CEO of Earbits , a hand-curated music discovery engine that allows its bands and artists to advertise and promote their own material, events, announcements, contests, whatever. What was the original inspiration behind Earbits? But sell them to who?

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

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The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.