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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you.

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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

socalTECH

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: We did a seed round in July of 2017, led by Mucker Capital, out of Santa Monica.

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Curating The Web Using PublishThis, with Matt Kumin

socalTECH

Prior to starting PublishThis, I was the General Manager for Edmunds.com, the automotive site here in Santa Monica. Matt Kumin: I've been working in digital and Internet in LA since 1995, and have been doing this for a number of years. I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis.

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

Tech Zulu Event

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Intro to the LA Startup Scene

Tech Zulu Event

During his presentation, Sam Teller gave people tips on how to connect with high profile people, who are inundated with emails. The first “Intro to the LA Startup Community” back in October 2012 was taught by Sam Teller , Managing Director of Launchpad , a four-month accelerator program started by venture capitalist Mark Suster.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

Both Sides of the Table

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email.

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

When he had the idea for his company, he didn’t write a long business plan or try to raise money to hire an agency to build a website for him. There’s Santa Monica, Westside, Hollywood, Downtown LA, the Valley, and Pasadena. Challenge #4 – We are Divided by Our Geography.

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