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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. The goal of Launchpad LA is to be significantly more than a series of cocktail parties. , Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more.

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Digitzs: Taking On The Pain Of Payment Processing

socalTECH

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 now have a team of fifteen, and are doing our second round of funding right now. What made you decide to go with crowdfunding, versus going a more traditional, venture funding route?

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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

socalTECH

If I write back, and tell them to stay at the Marriott in Del Mar, we would detect the Marriott Del Mar in your message, whether that's on Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, in a text message, in an email, or whatever, and convert that into a link to one of our merchants who are part of the Wildfire network. What does that look like?

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

socalTECH

Plus, there's always shoulder surfing--when people write them down, and are grabbing for your daytimer or spreadsheet for passwords--that's treating passwords like it's the 1950's, and leaving your front door key under a door mat. Curtis Staker: We completed an asset purchase of Vidoop in January.

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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

Venture Capital Funding 7. Blue-chip customers such as Intuit, Williams-Sonoma, Fox Sports/MSN, Ticketmaster, Glaxo Smith Kline, Clear Channel, WebEx and Netflix turn to StrongMail infrastructure to bring enterprise-class reliability to their email systems. Relaxing 2. Incubation 3. Go-to-Market 5. Spam Changes Everything 6.

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