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Smarter Digital Marketing With Smartify's Carla Bourque

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How can marketers make better decisions and get better results from their online marketing? Pasadena-based Smartify (www.getsmartify.com)''s CEO, Carla Bourque , recently talked to us about the company''s online marketing platform, and how it differentiates itself from a lot of other competitors in the market.

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Interview with John Delacruz, Foodme

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Pasadena-based Foodme (www.foodme.com) is one of the first, external startups funded out of Idealab's New Venture Group, and is looking to help connect restaurants with customers using a CPA model. The firm so far has signed up a number of restaurants in the Pasadena area. How do people get those deals--is this an email or a text?

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Here’s How to Cancel a Meeting the Right Way

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I wrote a version of this post four years ago but given the hectic nature of today’s tech markets I thought it was worth revisiting and updating. A couple of years ago an entrepreneur had requested a meeting with me to present his business. I wrote him the following email. Let me give you an example.

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Decoding Signal From Noise For Wall Street, With Bitvore

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That data--if you could just find the right piece--could be useful in a number of areas, particularly in the financial markets. Bitvore is based in Irvine, and is backed by serial entrepreneur Yuri Pikover, as well as other angels. I was hired to head up strategy, marketing development, and product management.

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Interview with Al Eisaian, IconApps

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For our interview today, we caught up with Al Eisaian , CEO of Pasadena-based IconApps (www.iconapps.com), which is developing mobile applications for the iPhone market. Al is a repeat entrepreneur, who last founded Integrien, and was SVP and GM at LowerMyBills. We caught up with Al recently to hear about his latest startup.

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Interview with Andy Steuer, Punchcard

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Last week, Pasadena-based Punchcard (www.punchcard.com) launched its mobile apps, which help local retailers provide rewards to loyal customers. The best form of this right now is email, and even then, that's through a one-size-fits-all email. The firm is backed by Idealab, and is headed by Internet veteran Andy Steuer.

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The Curse of a Modest Exit

Steve Reich

We never did really figure out how to monetize the app itself, but the team kept up a weekly email dialogue with active users. For entrepreneurs? DuWayne Peterson, founding chairman of the Pasadena Angels, told me we should be targeting companies that needed modest capital to hit a 3-5x outcome. For investors?