socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2011

Los Angeles-based Goldstar , the half price ticketing and event promotion service, has tapped Matt Coffin , Sean Moriarty , and Neil Patrick Harris as advisors, the company said Tuesday. Coffin is the former founder of LowerMyBills.com, and is now an investor in such firms as Demand Media, Houtelook, Ad.ly, ShoeDazzle, and other startups.

CitySearch 170

CitySearch Ticketmaster Pricing Demand 170

socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2010

Los Angeles-based IVT , a provider of web casting software and services, announced today that it has named Jim McGovern as its new CEO. McGovern has also served at Business.com, Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, and IBM. McGovern has also served at Business.com, Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, and IBM. IVT recently landed $5.5M

CitySearch 145

CitySearch Ticketmaster IBM IBM 145

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

In recent weeks, online ticketing has seen a surge in interest and funding. Los Angeles-based SaveFans (www.savefans.com) recently raised some funding for its take on secondary ticketing, so we thought we'd speak with founder Wes Brodsky about the company and where it's going. Describe SaveFans and what it does?

Ticketmaster 253

Ticketmaster Pricing Sales Activity 253

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

, Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more. We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2009

One company, Startup Exchange (www.startupexchange.com) is taking an interesting angle on the problem, with a financial fund which allows startup founders to put some of their stock into a pool of other companies--providing them with more opportunities for some liquidity, and a little bit of diversification. What is Startup Exchange?

Venture Capital 165

Venture Capital Startup Idealab Technical Review 165

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? Our platform is on all devices and all those communications channels, and is able to detect when consumers are referencing products, services, brand, and merchants in their communications among themselves.

San Diego 159

San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

Many companies would love to be able to get the benefits of cloud--easy configurability, low cost, scaling, and more--but, due to various reasons, can''t take advantage of public cloud services like Amazon. The company announced a funding round from Canaan Partners, Storm Ventures, and AME Cloud a couple of weeks ago.

CIO 207

CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The key to the LA tech scene is finding people who really understand content, and funding pepole in content who understand technology, and getting together. Michele Ruiz: The only thing I would add, is this is a software-as-a-service solutioneverything is on our online platform. Dan Gould: Michele is too modest.

Content 150

Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

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. I had been talking to DFJ Frontier, about funding my startup prior to this. The answer is, Evite is essentially a utilitarian service.

Evite 157

Evite Startup Ideas Ticketmaster 157

socalTECH

MAY 20, 2016

Laura Wagner: It's old school, but since the 1800's every business has been called a merchant, and we unfortunately come from what is called the merchant services world. The example is, there might be a platform that processes ticket payments for a marathon race, or one for a concert�such as Ticketmaster. We raised $2.5M

Platform 113

Platform Startup Ticketmaster Writing 113

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2015

You point out that there''s a lot of folks in this market, why jump in with a new service? Ticketing and registration are starting to collide, and all those monopolistic playersthe Ticketmasters, Cvents, and Eventbriteswere all created 20 years ago. How are you funding all of this?

Software 100

Software Activity Startup San Diego 100

LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

SMASHD’s first Cohort brought four early-stage + one mature company into the fold: Sidestep : Mobile platform for live events that allows fans to order merchandise before, during and after an event for VIP pickup and delivery, who has relationships in place with Ticketmaster, and is a merch partner on Beyonce’s latest tour.

Mentor 75

Mentor Venture Capital Draper USC 75

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

It was funded in 2006 with about $8M in investments, and we were fortunate to have the benefit of that investment in the development of the intellectual property. There's the 25 million credit card numbers lost by Ticketmaster to fraud or TJ Maxx with 40 million credit card compromised. Yet, only four percent of the U.S.

Technology 124

Technology Web Sites Orange County 124

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

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). My fund was an early investor in Overture.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Venture Capital Funding 7. We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. We used some of the proceeds from these consulting projects to fund the development of StrongMail, along with personal funds.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40