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Interview with Jason Lehmbeck, Datapop

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The company's founders are previously from Overture and Yahoo! We are ex-Overture and Yahoo! What our technology platform does, is determines what about a marketer's offers that will matter to the consumer. We were at Overture Services here in Pasadena, and ultimately worked at Yahoo. Search Marketing.

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Interview with Jason Spievak, RingRevenue

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Earlier this month, Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue (www.ringrevenue.com) announced that it had raised a round of venture funding. That affiliate passes that to the advertiser, and minutes or hours later will call the potential customer back at their phone number. Explain your technology? call centers every year.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. It also wasn’t clear at the time what types of apps would be built on top of the platform, other than cheaper IVR systems.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

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a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM). MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo! Custom ad deals and partnerships. Want To Sponsor?

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