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Maestro nets $15 million for its interactive commerce, community and engagement tools for livestreams

TechCrunch LA

As video commerce becomes the norm and entertainers, brands, businesses, and franchises of all sizes and stripes look to cut out the middle man, the array of services on offer from Maestro may be the scissors these entities need to cut the cord. “ We were targeted to a small number of very premier customers.

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6 Information Surges Raise Huge Startup Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. The audience is now the actors.

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5 Strategies To Thrive In Customer-Driven Disruption

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m more convinced that technology merely enables disruption, and changing customer interests and needs really causes it. Other companies keep the focus on their customers, and seem to thrive on disruption, much less survive. They make it their top business priority to understand, anticipate, and gratify customers’ needs.

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Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers

InfoChachkie

Fortunately, several startups have devised tools which make it possible for content creators to maintain the entertainment integrity of their videos while embedding relevant calls-to-action. Stitching Content With Commerce. Coull’s approach is in keeping with this thesis.”.

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The Story Behind ScoreBig's Live Entertainment Tickets, with Adam Kanner

socalTECH

As an executive at the National Basketball Association (NBA), Adam Kanner saw those issues--plus the industry's own desire to sell its unsold inventory--so he created ScoreBig (www.scorebig.com), an online marketplace aimed at connecting consumers with awesome deals on below-face value, live entertainment tickets. ScoreBig is a channel play.

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Tealium Gets $15.6M In Third Funding Round

socalTECH

Tealium is a developer of software used for "tag management" on company web and e-commerce sites, and counts such clients as Petco, Lenovo, A+E, Mattel, Fox Networks, NOkia, Urban Outfitters, and Sony Online Entertainment as customers.

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What Might the 2015 Holiday Season Hold for E-Commerce Retailers?

Tech Zulu Event

That includes e-commerce retailers, which continue to claim a growing slice of overall retail sales. Last year alone, online holiday sales rose 15% over 2013 figures, including increases of 32% on Thanksgiving, 26% on Black Friday, and 17% on Cyber Monday. travel and entertainment). Focus On The Consumer.