socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

The sixth is marketing analytics, including SEM/SEO, collecting customer names, emails -- we use ExactTarget for emails, and Omniture for Analytics. We started getting approached by venture capital and private equity, and we have eight figures in revenue. Bessemer approached us. John Tomich: I came from the Internet side.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

After talking with Constantine and the team, I was amazed at the market dynamics, and how well we are positioned to capitalize on it. I got involved talking with Constantine, to see if I could poke as many holes as I could in the business, and found that it is completely bullet proof. Do users buy or rent these?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Tracy tells us how she bootstrapped her business by renting out both her bedrooms and sleeping on the couch--funding the startup via Airbnb--and is now scaling out the business with a new round of venture capital. While I was doing that, I was learning about social media, about SEO, about gorilla marketing, and so on. What is Tradesy?

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

This empowers local florists to take advantage of things like organic SEO, and also helps them promote their current business, as well. Concurrently with our product launch, we announced our seed round from Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Chicago Ventures, CrunchFund and MuckerLab. They have to pay for placement.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

We've also got SEO feed pages. Because we have a large, structured database, we are using SEO to feed content to the search engines. When we thought we had the right mix, we went to look for angel capital, and raised $1.3M in angel capital from the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, and other unaffiliated angels.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Users can vote for relevancy of results, and over time, the non-relevant information or SEO moves down below the line. We don't have any outside investors, venture capital, or private equity. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. 11.65mm in Series C – Investors: not announced – likely an inside round; previous investors: Redpoint and JAFCO – Read more: : SEC Registration Form D , peHUB , SoCalTech. Rumored to be appox.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and others have had to raise tons of capital and have super-solid foundations to go with the hyper-local play. How did you connect with Kevin and ScOps Venture Capital, and why did you decide to raise a round?

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Venture capital. With LaunchPad’s help, more than 61 Orange County companies have raised more than $97 million in startup capital, seed, and series A investments — and much of that money comes from Valley investors betting on their neighbors to the south. SEO Software. socaltech socalcto Editor’s picks.

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