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MARCH 6, 2015

I began asking around who the likely investors were for such a market. If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor.

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APRIL 18, 2017

Ahead of the Recurring Revenue Conference ([link] which we are helping to sponsor next week, we are chatting with a few companies in the recurring revenue area space. We are also launching beverages and coffee, two new categories, next month. Additionally, we're very sales and marketing driven. One, is shelf space.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Len Short is truly an online marketing pioneer, heading up marketing at Charles Schwab, AOL and then (PRODUCT)RED. Before his career moved online, Len worked on major marketing campaigns for credit card companies and rolled out MCI’s highly successful “Friends and Family” marketing campaign.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. We then allow them to understand the true potential velocity of markets online.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

We spoke with one of those companies-- El Segundo-based ConsumerTrack (www.consumertrack.com)--which is a $30M, bootstrapped an online marketing company which is driving millions of customers to big name, financial customers. Brett Rossman: ConsumerTrack is a performance-based, online marketing company. What is ConsumerTrack all about?

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JULY 16, 2014

For the last few years, startup accelerator MuckerLab has been helping very early stage companies define and grow their businesses, using the accelerator model and small investments to get companies to the next stage. Erik Rannala: Really, it''s the quality of the companies in the market, plus the level of activity.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Essentially, we're still oriented around social shopping, where our fundamental value proposition is helping consumers figure out what to buy. That's why we exist, and why we are a company, to help consumers figure out that fundamental question. How we do so, is we help consumers discover new products and shop for them.

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MARCH 23, 2015

So part of playing an effective coach is helping the team to see the answer for themselves. While this clip is only 1-minute long we talk about it more in the full interview. We talked in the full interview about some of Fred’s partners and the role that they play in the firm. You need to invest in good markets and bad.

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MAY 19, 2010

Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. It will be tough for there to be many huge winners in this category.

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APRIL 1, 2019

For this morning's interview, we had a chat with Eli Portnoy , the CEO and founder of Culver City-based Sense360 (www.sense360.com), The way we've done that, is by going out and aggregating a bunch of data sets, to help businesses better understand and better serve their customers. That's the basic premise of the company.

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MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. So, it's quite new.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The message of the panel was very clear – “We don’t need your help. But it highlighted the misperceptions many people have had about serving urban markets. He didn’t finish high school but had a strong knack for helping promote young hip hop artists and worked with P Diddy, Biggie Smalls, Will Smith and others.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In a bid to change that, there are a few groups working on helping women entrepreneurs, investors, and others, including the Pipeline Fellowship (www.pipelinefellowship.com), which recently launched itself into the Los Angeles market. The program helps them learn the tools to become angel investors in female led enterprises.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Scott Cannon , the CEO of BigRentz (www.bigrentz.com), which is creating an online marketplace for big equipment--an industry known notoriously as not adopting new technology. We help the small independent rental yards. Really, we're the sales and marketing arm of those companies.

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APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. So it is a combination of markets and people.

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MAY 21, 2013

Darren Clark: Our missions is to help small businesses and communities grow. I think their number is a bit higher than that, but it also skews towards the lifestyle category--restaurants and retail. We index towards those categories, and we do really well. Louis and Atlanta. What''s the focus on YP now as an independent firm?

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APRIL 22, 2016

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Jason Reid , CEO and Co-founder of Giftagram (www.giftagram.com), which announced a $3.2M How that works, is when you download Giftagram, you can peruse through gifts in different categories that we have set up, and see what products we have. How does Giftagram work?

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MAY 21, 2013

Darren Clark: Our missions is to help small businesses and communities grow. I think their number is a bit higher than that, but it also skews towards the lifestyle category--restaurants and retail. We index towards those categories, and we do really well. Louis and Atlanta. What''s the focus on YP now as an independent firm?

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MARCH 28, 2014

To hear how he bootstrapped the company to that size, we caught up with Asher earlier this week for a quick interview. I do think the key in bootstrapping is that it helps you organically, in that you make decisions you wouldn''t have made otherwise, out of need. One big new category for us is data and targeting. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

To kick off our first interview for the year, we've got an interview with Kevin Strong , the CEO of Laguna Beach-based FutureDash (www.futuredash.com), a developer of technology for the home energy monitoring market. What does FutureDash do, and how do you fit into the home energy monitoring market?

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Mickie Rosen: Tecca is the easiest and most helpful independent service for mainstream consumers to learn, shop, and make the most of their personal technology. One of the concepts we came up with, and bounced around with Best Buy, was a whole new, independent company to help consumers with technology. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

Brandon tells us the story about how the loss of his aunt to breast cancer--his mother's participation in a charity walk to honor her--inspired him to take the technology from his firm, AudioLife (focused on music and entertainment marketing), and apply it to the nonprofit sector. What is GoodThreads all about? They said it would be amazing.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

In emerging markets and the developing world, access to banking, capital, and financial resources is fare more difficult than here in the U.S., Shivani Siroya: Tala is a data company that is working in emerging markets. What we've developed, is an Android app that allows us to open up financial access to customers in emerging markets.

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APRIL 14, 2010

Our interview this morning is with Lolita Carrico, founder of Gloss Network for Women (www.mygloss.com), an online network of sites focused on women. Those are our three biggest categories as far as sponsorship and readership. Being one of the first in the mom media area has helped. What is Gloss Network? READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 17, 2010

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. But it’s more atypical for investors located in this market.

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MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon.

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JUNE 9, 2014

We then help push those videos through social media channels, and help them go viral. We''re developing programming around our brands, such as Failarmy, and we also have a deal with Dick Clark Products to take Failarmy to the international market. Those two pieces helped feed each other. more) READ MORE>>.

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MAY 5, 2009

We have six key categories of what we do. The sixth is marketing analytics, including SEM/SEO, collecting customer names, emails -- we use ExactTarget for emails, and Omniture for Analytics. We like Bessemer because of their experience in the consumer retail space, and decided it would help us to grow to the next level.

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JULY 18, 2011

I must say I’ve become a regular user of ShopperSeeks every since this interview. And you will to after this interview. I enjoyed it there, but they eliminated the apparel category so I decided to worked for a family owned apparel company. Kyle: What’s been the most after sought category of items?

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MAY 11, 2009

Last week, Ayax Systems launched LetSimonDecide.com , a new website targeted at helping people make major decisions. Ricardo Solar: The idea is to help people make decisions, any type of decision. Basically, it's going to be market research. The parent company of LetSimonDecide is a market research company.

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APRIL 9, 2012

A small percentage of people in each free-market society generate the jobs for everyone else. Thus, you can pursue new markets that are further from the mainstream and too small to interest a BDC. Looking for small ventures will help you open your eyes to the myriad of opportunities that surround you. What happened?

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JUNE 16, 2016

When trying to cobble together a startup degree, consider the following categories of classes. marketing, finance, sales, etc.). Comm 120 Interviewing Theory and Practice. Comm 120 Interviewing Theory and Practice. Comm 166 Marketing Communication. Communication. Comm 138 Advertising Literacy.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

For our interview today, we sat down with Kevin Anderson , one of the co-founders of Los Angeles-based Appetize (www.appetizeapp.com), the developer of a cloud based enterprise point of sale solutions for venues and events. We provide primarily enterprise, category, point-, and sit in between the legacy guys and mobile guys.

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JUNE 9, 2010

"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. Stay Tuned.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

This morning's interview is with Billy Fried , co-founder and CEO of Kijubi (www.kijubi.com), a new startup which is looking to help people find travel activities. We've really set out to solve the problem we saw, which is a vast category of travel information which is not aggregated well on the web. It's down in Laguna Beach.

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JUNE 9, 2010

To understand why investors are finding the firm so interesting, and why the company raised such a large round, we spoke with Adam Bernhard , CEO of the firm, about the company and funding, how email has allowed the firm to get past the "Google trap" of marketing on the web, and where the firm is going. Adam, thanks for the time.

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MARCH 6, 2009

An area we've been seeing a lot of companies attacking recently is tutoring and homework help. One of the firms looking to make its market in the area is Altadena-based Student of Fortune (www.studentoffortune.com). It's a site, where people can come on and get help with the individual problems they need help with.

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