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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. Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more. DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!,

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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

socalTECH

So, if you're a marketer, how do you track and encourage those word-of-mouth recommendations? We have our own suite of applications for Android, iOS, Mac, and Pac, and so forth, but our primary go to market is working with the existing channels, carriers, device OEMs, as well as social media and chat applications.

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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. It's a trillion dollar, niche market. Maria is our Chief Marketing Officer, and doing an awesome job. I'm actually writing a book on raising money this way. We charge the person 2.9

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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. The reason why people don't adopt it, is because of security and ease of use. It's not used for authentication.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: So, you need to develop a product?

Frank Addante

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. There are a lot of people out there who can "write code", but very few good engineers. What is the Rubicon Project? Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical.

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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

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Go-to-Market 5. We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.

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