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JULY 24, 2012

The startup--headed by serial entrepreneur Rudy DeFelice--helps kids to start their company, figure out the goods or services they want to offer, collect payment, and arms them with social media and email tools, free business cards, and other resources.

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APRIL 2, 2014

Smartify''s software-as-a-service platform automates all aspects of their digital marketing, across their channels, including mobile, social, email, and web. It''s unique in that we can integrate that into CRM systems, email systems, point-of-sale. carla bourque smartify facebook social marketing entrepreneur startup interview'

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging.

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JUNE 8, 2020

There are lots of others trying to put content on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Tiktok, which is more about entertainment around social media. What we do, is we take them from social media into a one-to-one relationship, via text, directly to their phone. Finally, what's been your biggest lesson as a second time entrepreneur?

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MARCH 16, 2017

Earlier this week, Derek Norton , a long time advisor to the media, Internet, and technology industry in Los Angeles, announced a brand new venture capital fund called Watertower Ventures (www.watertowerventures.com). Derek Norton: I've been investing for 17 years in early stage companies, across technology, media, and the internet.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

One of the biggest complaints that local entrepreneurs have with Los Angeles has been a dearth of local sources of venture capital. Specifically, we look at digital media, healthcare IT, e-commerce, education technology and financial services. What's the best way to approach you as an entrepreneur?

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

At the Twiistup panel last week, there was a debate over whether big companies could be created here, which is ridiculous--Demand Media is the latest example there, we've got Cornerstone OnDemand coming out soon, and there is no question there are market leading, large revenue companies coming out of Southern California. That's part one.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Personally, my work has shifted 80 percent to my mobile device for work communication, text, email and reading.

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JULY 30, 2012

John Payne is a experienced entrepreneur, who has run two, public Internet companies -- Stamps.com and Day Software -- in addition to helping to run a number of startups. How are you acquiring customers, and why wouldn't they just have someone send them their bill by email? Email lis oppose of what our system is.

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MARCH 29, 2012

What's the best way to get the word out about your brand on social media? Basically, we've built a platform that allows businesses to build social media promotions across multiple social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Linkedin. Matt MacNaughton: Our mantra, is to reach social media users everywhere.

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JULY 21, 2011

Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. Now, what we've entered is actually Social Media 2.0, Now, what we've entered is actually Social Media 2.0, There are tools and solutions needed to handle Social Media 1.0,

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MAY 2, 2013

Despite a growing technology industry here in Southern California, local investors and entrepreneurs tell us there''s still a shortage of local, venture capital. In particular, funding for companies developing deep technology--software and cloud, as opposed to content and media--seems to be lacking.

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JUNE 15, 2017

The company recently raised $8M in a funding from Evolution Media, Aspect Ventures, Upfront Ventures, as well as a long list of angels. We have them add their name, email address, and input the percent amount. I was a digital media agent at the United Talent Agency for five years, prior to founding Stem. What is Stem?

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JUNE 8, 2011

It's the biggest portion of our revenues at our company, and our clients include the Buffalo News, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, JDate, Spark network, and many entrepreneurs. We also have a partnership with Trion Media, which is one of the largest content providers to the radio industry. We learned that Groupon was taking their advertisers.

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JUNE 21, 2013

The San Diego firm is headed by Ethan Senturia , who sat down with us to tell us how Dealstruck is trying to help build small businesses and jobs--and also tells us a bit about what it''s like to come from a family full of very successful, and high profile entrepreneurs, and how that has influenced his experience as an entrepreneur himself.

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JUNE 9, 2010

To understand why investors are finding the firm so interesting, and why the company raised such a large round, we spoke with Adam Bernhard , CEO of the firm, about the company and funding, how email has allowed the firm to get past the "Google trap" of marketing on the web, and where the firm is going. Adam, thanks for the time. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. However Gmail is only private email conversations. The other reason for building it, is LA is crapped on all the time from a press perspective and entrepreneur perspective. Later on, we can add upsells for community managers and social media marketers.

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MARCH 22, 2011

In the bay area it’s quite common for the entrepreneurs starting a company to be developers or technologists who can build the first versions of their products. Entrepreneurs that start companies in LA are often focused on revenue and business models. That’s typically not the case in Los Angeles.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

Customer care, obviously, is emails, phone calls, and customer service back office services. The two of us really wanted to be entrepreneurs. So, we wondered what we could do at a low price point, things like transcribing voicemail, things like social media sentiment analysis. Before that, I was in New York, City. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 30, 2019

Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, I've learned a lot, and my partner Paul has through our companies, and as a result, a lot of mistakes you make as an entrepreneur, we're not going to make.

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MARCH 13, 2020

Constantine is CEO of Ulevate, and Dmitri is an advisor, and also is known as the co-founder of email management and filtering software developer SaneBox. Our interview today is with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez of Ulevate (www.ulevate.com), a startup which is combining technology with the beauty and spa industry. What is Ulevate?

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Chuka Ikokwu: We focus on both the media and technology industry, and we don't just focus on engineering. It makes it so that emails don't get lost in an inbox, and so that those communities are actually accessible, and so people can connect with other people in their respective fieldseven if they don't already know a person.

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APRIL 18, 2014

Todd Davis: Today, communications between manufacturing, suppliers, contractors, and end users is disjointed, lacks context, and requires lots of telephone calls, messages, and emails. todd davis startup entrepreneur gary winnick globalgrossing truckast cement concrete construciton mobile smartphone logistics' READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. I'm in a position where I see a lot of interest deals, meet great entrepreneurs, and I'm kind of addicted to making investments in the web space. Generally, I make those when I sleep.

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MARCH 29, 2010

The two we're disclosing right now are Jerry Neumann, who ran mergers and acquisition for Omnicom, and Josh Styleman, CEO of Reprise Media, which was sold to IPG and became their search product. Jeff Green: I started my career in online advertising, as a media buyer. We've also got a huge list of strategic investors also participating.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Unlike working with an agency, which involves lots of emails and phone calls, they just come to our website, sign up, and submit some information on their brand, how they want us to create content, as well as some brand guidelines. We're a company at the intersection of media and technology, so this is a very fertile place for us to grow.

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JULY 23, 2010

Matt Edelman: The last company I ran and co-founded PeopleJam, which was a social media business for people interested in self improvement. For StyleHive, in particular, we're adding a daily email newslette rprogram, and are reaching out to hundreds of thousands of email newsletter subscribers we have who have been underserved.

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JUNE 25, 2013

We send you reminders by email, and deliver as many times a year as you prefer. round changes things for us, and will let us invest in infrastructure, build our team, invest in media, and also invest in technology to better leverage our spend on media. We also have Just Because, which schedules random deliveries. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 31, 2014

Bitvore is based in Irvine, and is backed by serial entrepreneur Yuri Pikover, as well as other angels. entrepreneur startup interview processing query intelligence indexed index unstructured structured extraction text search source data electronic bitvore street wall curie jeff' There was not a lot of work involved. more) READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

Join us as we kick off the holiday season in grand style and bestow the Digital Family Outstanding Achievement Honor on Scott Painter, Founder of CarsDirect and Entrepreneur. To enter to win a ticket to digiday:APPS, send your name, title, company, city, and email address to: info@socaltech.com with the subject "digiday tickets".

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JUNE 23, 2011

Ryan is a serial entrepreneur, having previously co-founded email marketer NetCreations, and also has been an angel investor in local startups. However, you'll never see that in the media. Your prior background was in email marketing--how has this been different for you? You need a third profile.

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MAY 18, 2010

Al is a repeat entrepreneur, who last founded Integrien, and was SVP and GM at LowerMyBills. One of the most popular features of the application is the delegation feature, which with one tap allows them to email a grocery list to their husband to pick up. Tags: eisaian iconapps entrepreneur startup mobile iphone apple ipod.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

For 80 percent of those people, they are reading emails sent to Outlook. It might be through Zenvoy, it might be through LinkedIn, it might be through email, or it might even be a phone call. We came to the conclusion, to push value, we needed to push connections to people through the technology they use every day.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Once a campaign has been created, there's some level of marketing and call to action, which can be through traditional media, or the web. I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have started five companies. I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have started five companies. What's your background, and how did you get into this?

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

We can take a group of customers and figure out who has been to the store in the last six months, and set up a promotion to offer them 20 percent off, and reach those customers through digital media, emails, and other channels, allowing businesses to really re-engage their guests. We can also merge that with their own, online data.

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AUGUST 8, 2016

The area which probably is really attuned to your readers, is we also serve many mid-market, growth oriented companies that are looking to grow and acquire customers, with paid and earned digital channels, paid search, paid media, social, email, and organic SEO, as well as digital PR and content. Now, it's long, and complex.

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MARCH 1, 2012

The best form of this right now is email, and even then, that's through a one-size-fits-all email. We made it easier for local businesses to acquire customers through search and social media We sold that to Deluxe Corp. That's currently very ineffective.

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