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Interview with Scot Richardson, Laughstub

socalTECH

For anyone that small, Ticketmaster doesn't make sense. The problem with one of those is, as a venue, you can build a beautiful website, and click to buy tickets--and you're on a completely different, branded site. We are launching a music vertical, which is very similar to our comedy site. How is the company backed?

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The Story Behind ScoreBig's Live Entertainment Tickets, with Adam Kanner

socalTECH

Every consumer out there who goes to live sports, music, and other events is used to the drill: pay lots of money to a ticketing site, pay lots of extra fees, or have to hassle with a shady ticket broker, or pay extra to get a seat to the event you want to get to. That's the same thing that we do. Can you explain how that works for you?

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

Both Sides of the Table

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. I spoke with a chap from TicketMaster who looked at Scot’s product and told me that he was really impressed what the team has built.

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Interview with Harry Lin, Lottay

socalTECH

This morning, Los Angeles-based Lottay (www.lottay.com) launched its online gifting site, announced its funding by DFJ Frontier, and also the appointment of former Evite GM Harry Lin as CEO. It's like email, no doubt about it--this is not a lot of technology, rocket science, or atom splitting. Harry, thanks for the interview.

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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). Okay, thats AdSense. then in Silicon Valley.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. It was intended to be a single solution for all-things advertising online (banner ads, email, content management, search advertising, etc.). So much for resting!

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