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Evite Redesigns Site

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Los Angeles-based Evite , the online invitations business which is a unit of IAC, said today that it has launched an extensive redesign of the firm's website. Evite said it now is seeing 18 million monthly uniques, and sends out over 28,000 invitations an hour. Those competitors have been hoping to take market share from Evite.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup. Market Size.

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Interview with Harry Lin, Lottay

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

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We provide an event and experiential marketing platform. What that means, is we have a software tool, used primarily by companies who are putting on events for marketing reasons. We work with them on an annual basis, around the world, and help to power their events and experiential marketing. How did you start the company?

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Interview with David Wood, Eventene

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For our interview this morning, we talked with David Wood , the Founder and CEO of Eventene (www.eventene.com), an early stage startup, bootstrapped startup developing event management software. David--a veteran of Microsoft, having been the lead developer of Microsoft Exchange--tells us why he started his company.

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Interview with Eden Jarrin, eDivvy

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For this morning's interview, we caught up with Eden Jarrin, the President of Los Angeles-based eDivvy (www.edivvy.com). Eden told us a bit about the firm, how people are using it, as well as her own experience and what she learned from her prior startup, BeJane. Let's start with eDivvy. How did you end up here?

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Congrats To The Presenting StartupDemo Companies!

Tech Zulu Event

After weeks of StartupDemo submissions we are now ready to announce the participating startup companies for the StartupDemo event being held at Wokano Sept. We took great consideration for every startup company that applied. Congratulations to all the selected startup companies! What: A Startup Demo event. 22, 2010.

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