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As a Google Partner with Fresh Capital, Zesty.io Aims to Disrupt CMS

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CEO Gerry Widmer said Wednesday the San Diego-based company is expanding its workforce and extending its Web content management system (WCMS) to international customers. Apuzzo shifted to his preferred role as CTO.) After establishing a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform, Zesty.io Zesty also added $1.5

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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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Here are eight Southern California companies and the experienced, successful entrepreneurs heading up their efforts, who haven't had any problems finding investors--or customers--for their firms. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic.

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With $30M Infusion, Certona Aims for Bigger Share of Digital Retail

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After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. The differentiator is going to be customer experience.”.

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Interview with Aaron Crayford, Rippol

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Recently, San Diego-based Rippol (www.rippol.com) launched its web site, a service which uses social networking to help people find and discover interesting videos related to their interests. Aaron Crayford: Before Rippol, I was the CEO and CTO of Vusion, a company that provided HD video streaming.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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Here’s why that is important: when users are on your website you want to convert them to become paying customers. It’s true that the carrier then gets their huge slice for being the billing and payment engine but the idea is that you as a website more than make up for this in terms of customer conversion. 15mm in Series A.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. I thought, what would I do if I was trying to sell to a customer. Free product.

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Interview with Jason Howe, CEO of Awarepoint

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San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. Who are the typical customers for your products? It's a month-to-month rental, although many of our customers buy the product--but they can do it on an operations budget.

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