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Interview with Wes Brodsky, SaveFans

socalTECH

On the primary side, when you're talking about Ticketmaster or Tickets.com, or the box office, they usually price seats by bundling them into price groups. There is no real room for negotiation, or to let demand drive the pricing on the buyer side. It is now very, very customer friendly. That's where we come in.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

socalTECH

We have the best engineers in the world here at MetaCloud, the former cloud engineering team at Ticketmaster, which operates your cloud every day, deploys software updates, and gives you the economic performance of the cloud, but where you data is always under control and on your premises. That''s very powerful, if you think about.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: The Kool-Aid Test: “Why do I need anything? Why do I need yours? Why do I need it now?"

Frank Addante

Put yourself in the shoes of your customers or users. Answering only one or two of these questions won’t work. > I need to send marketing, e-commerce or e-statements emails to my customers to drive revenue or reduce costs. if they started a business that was driven by market demand (as opposed to new/cool technology).

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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). Register Now! Be extra productive. Learn more.

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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

We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. StrongMail’s software ensures reliable and timely delivery of their critical customer communications. Some ideas lasted months, others lasted hours.

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