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Interview with Mike Starkenburg, Image Metrics

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Los Angeles-based Image Metrics (www.image-metrics.com) recently landed a $6.5M, Series B funding round for the firm's facial animation products. More and more of the company began to move here, and we now have about 45 people total, with 30 of them here in Santa Monica. How'd you get involved at the firm?

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Business.com Boosts Analytics

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Santa Monica-based Business.com , which provides online directories for B2B purchasing, announced today that the firm has launched a new tool to help advertisers access pay-per-click metrics on the site. Business.com is now owned by R.H. Donnelley; the firm was purchased by R.H. Donnelley back in 2007. READ MORE>>.

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How Gigmor Is Looking To Connect Musicians With Gigs, with David Baird

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Santa Monica-based Gigmor (www.gigmor.com) is an online marketplace for musicians, and recently expanded beyond connecting musicians with each other, to connecting musicians with venues, club organizers, and others. David Baird: We really began as a musician matching site, kind of a LinkedIn for musicians. What is Gigmor?

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about your background. How did it help you?

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Interview with Matthias Galica, ShareSquare

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Matthias Galica: My last role was as a product manager for another local startup, Woome.com, an online dating site. In that market, there are literally no ROI metrics. The best metrics are estimated impressions. Musicians are always looking for new things, for the best ways to promote themselves. READ MORE>>.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

Both Sides of the Table

The consumer product they’ve created is called TrueCar. And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad.

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UX | An Old Dog With New Tricks

Tech Zulu Event

Last week, I attended an event hosted by The Los Angeles User Experience Meetup at Cross Campus in Santa Monica. ” Some call it service design or experience design or product design. The problem is, how are you going to administer the site?” “It’s not just about websites.