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Interview with Scot Richardson, Laughstub

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For anyone that small, Ticketmaster doesn't make sense. I always ask the question, when I've brought a concert ticket, if I'm going to get an email from the venue, or from a Ticketmaster or Live Nation. million comedy fans through our social media email list, we we think we can see the same in the music industry.

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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

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And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? 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.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. On average the platform is generating 30+% increase in conversions and 15% decrease in cost per lead.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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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.

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How Event Farm Is Making Events A Part Of Your Sales Funnel

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We provide an event and experiential marketing platform. When you use something like Eventbrite, or Ticketmaster, it doesn't matter who is buying that ticket�they'll let anyone buy a ticket, because you're just a bar code. Of course, there are follow up emails, but during an event is the next big chunk.

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Interview with Harry Lin, Lottay

socalTECH

As you probably know, PayPal just opened up their platform to outside developers, and we took a look at that and the opportunity it presented, and build something based on the PayPal API. It's like email, no doubt about it--this is not a lot of technology, rocket science, or atom splitting. But, Evite has an incredibly local user base.

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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). LinkedIn Sign in or register to comment.