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TikTok Avoids App Store Ban

L.A. Business Journal

While TikTok awaits further developments in the proposed sale of its U.S. operations to Oracle Corp. the social media platform notched a victory last week in its fight against the Trump administration. and Walmart Inc.,

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How Event Farm Is Making Events A Part Of Your Sales Funnel

SoCal Tech Calendar

We provide an event and experiential marketing platform. The most obvious, is to drive sales. If you look at the marketing cloud, at companies like Salesforce, Oracle, and Adobe, they are providing the consumer marketing cloud. But, none of them have event management. It's a marketing experience.

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Interview: Mark Douglas, President & CEO, SteelHouse Media

InfoChachkie

In this interview, Mark discusses how his experiences at Oracle, eHarmony and the Rubicon Project contributed to the creation of his latest venture, SteelHouse Media. Value Prop Twitter Style : SteelHouse’s Behavioral Commerce platform increases online conversions via targeted incentives based on shopper personality and behavior.

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Interview with John Hanna, FunnelSource

socalTECH

One of the local firms attacking that market is Los Angeles-based FunnelSource (www.funnelsource.com), a developer of software-as-a-service tools that provide analytics to sales teams. Coming out here, I wanted to focus on what my specialty was, which is driving sales as a VP of Sales.

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People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip

Both Sides of the Table

You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on. An obvious example would be in sales. By going on sales calls you pick up directly the feedback of what customers want and also what they’re telling you about competition.

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How A Pivot Turned Vantage Media Into A $100M Plus Business

socalTECH

We started looking to see if we could use technology disrupt the agency business, for companies serving the performance marketing area, the cost-per-sale area. Starting with that vision, we acquired a company that had built the base platform, based in Guatemala. At the time, when we were an agency, it was quite a crowded market.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

M&A has shown some spectacular results including Zappos to Amazon for $928million , Sun to Oracle for $7.4 More tellingly was the sale of Mint.com to Intuit for $170+ million because it showed VCs that a well-executed investment can still garner a quick, solid results (the company was sold around 3 years after its foundation).