socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web. What's the idea behind Audiolife? The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. But it’s a real phenomenon.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

“In today’s market, so much focus is placed on transacting business online. This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. Our platform helps them do that.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

We all make important, complicated decisions in our life and having accurate, objective data about our choices allow us to find and compare products that meet our needs. For example, how Facebook evolved from other ideas and how 2 really simple concepts (exclusivity and relationship status) were fundamental to its success.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

We all make important, complicated decisions in our life and having accurate, objective data about our choices allow us to find and compare products that meet our needs. For example, how Facebook evolved from other ideas and how two really simple concepts (exclusivity and relationship status) were fundamental to its success.

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Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. Providing near real-time information to financial traders made Michael Bloomberg a billionaire and helped create the powerhouse Reuters.

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