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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more. He teamed up with Jordanna Joaquina, a genetic counselor, to create an online version of what she was already doing in the physical world. Watch this space.

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

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Kanner tells us how his startup is trying to both help consumers get a straight deal on the live event tickets they want, and at the same time help sell all those unsold tickets for the industry. But, how do you do that in a way that doesn't cannibalize your full price tickets and screw up your brand? That's the same thing that we do.

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Interview with Scot Richardson, Laughstub

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We started in the comedy industry, hence the name, but basically for venues, we have a website management tool so you can fire your web programmer. For anyone that small, Ticketmaster doesn't make sense. How did the company start? What is Laughstub? Scot Richardson: In a nutshell, we're a WordPress for venues.

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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

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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. How was it you ended up in San Diego? Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital.

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

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How did you start the company? Ryan Costello: I started out as an event producer in Washington DC. I actually tried to put on an event to raise money for a charity in Washington DC, and at the time I was super young and super na�ve, and helping that charity ended up turning into a ten year long project.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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However, Metacloud (www.metacloud.com), a startup providing private cloud services, is looking to change the equation and make it much easier for companies to deploy their own private clouds. We think those four dimensions matter because you can sort of mix and match those, and end up with interesting business models.

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Interview with Harry Lin, Lottay

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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. How did Lottay start, and tell us about your Series A? Elliott came up wit the idea in 2008, seeing the trends I just explained to you.

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