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AUGUST 6, 2012

But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective. Every one of those writers has a byline and a bio, and are paid twice a week at a pretty decent rate for that writing or assignment. They couldn't find enough people to write the content they needed, at the quality they need.

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JUNE 8, 2011

They are using DealCurrent as the deal platform for all of their clients. We see those three products working together, as features of one platform which both can be used independently, as well as together. So, we took that contest and crowdsourcing platform, and started ArtisticHub. What's the story behind Deal Current?

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Zach Zalon: Super Hi-Fi is a platform to help music experience companies, like digital music services, to deliver much more compelling, much higher quality music experiences to their audiences. We ended up building a lot of digital music platforms. We spoke with Zach about the company and its technology. What is Super Hi-Fi?

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JUNE 30, 2011

Their view was that HTML5 would allow them to replace the notion of having to download a Facebook App into your phone or tablet, and release them from the idea that they have to have nine different apps on different platforms, and have to maintain all of them. When there is a new platform, there will be new entrants as well.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Zack Zalon: Super Hi-Fi is a platform to help music experience companies, like digital music services, to deliver much more compelling, much higher quality music experiences to their audiences. We ended up building a lot of digital music platforms. We spoke with Zach about the company and its technology. What is Super Hi-Fi?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

We're a content curation platform, software-as-a-service for content, and we are focused on helping companies engage their customer more directly using content. Matt Kumin: We're getting ready to launch an all-new version of our platform. I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis.

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Web Newsletter Content Startup 237

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AUGUST 10, 2011

We've instead taken those comments and turned them into scores and a rating platform. When you stick that plugin on a blog you are writing, it scans the article for names. For example, if you are writing about Barack Obama, you can, with a single click, vote him up or down in the article. No one knows about that article.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. So, if you're a marketer, how do you track and encourage those word-of-mouth recommendations? Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital.

San Diego 159

San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

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AUGUST 27, 2014

We''ve also built a data driven platform, that allows us to drive millions of unique visitors to our network of sites every month, covering the banking, credit, and travel and vertical markets. We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack.

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. He was independently working on a collaboration platform for writers, and eventually we all got on a phone together, and it clicked. What's Scripped?

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

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APRIL 14, 2011

It was built originally on the Twitter platform to talk about stocks, and all users had to do was add a dollar sign to ticker symbols to give it context. So, we built our own, new and improved version of a microblogging platform. We also added a few more features which were very stock friendly. It's fun, I guess.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Skyler Lucci is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based HeyTutor (www.heytutor.com), a startup which has created an online platform which connects and matches students with in-person tutors. With HeyTutor, we track those lessons, let you write notes down about your clients, we create a tutor profile for you and a hub.

Startup 113

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

That very big vision is an open database platform, providing data as a service across different verticals. In order to execute in other verticals, we want to bring in a lot more talent, hiring more engineering talent to bolster our core platform, which does a lot.

Artificial Inteligence 203

Artificial Inteligence Century City Web Santa Monica 203

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

I had my own list on my iPhone, writing down what I wanted to watch, and where those shows are. I started protyping an idea of how to do this, across all platforms. Matt Knox: The idea came up, because most people have their own method of figuring out what they want to watch next. How has it been starting your business in a pandemic?

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Bill Curtis: It's by far the most exciting platform right now. In our current case, we realized that radio is seeing channel and platform flipping like never before, websites are calling a three second view of an ad an impression, and the bounce rates for websites so high, it's kind of embarrassing. It ends up being good for both.

Media 150

Media Report Advertising Content 150

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JUNE 30, 2010

My partner is a documentarian and reports for the New York Times, Time, and Newsweek, and was given a story to write about for the New York Times, about the sounds that fish make , for their Science section. They wanted to use the platform we had developed in a class called Mashup Culture. We grew out of an interesting use case.

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Journal USC News Startup 187

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JULY 22, 2016

Gabe Grifoni: At Rufus Labs, we are focused heavily on building wearables and technology in a wearable platform for the enterprise. Gabe Grifoni: I had actually transitioned to the writing side, and focusing on tech. That got me to CES for some technical writing and journalism, and I started checking out the scene.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

PerfectForms is a platform for business users to create web applications, to provide visibility to processes, and to report on information collected. In 1999, I was involved with GE Financial, launching a broker platform, so that they could self-score and autodoc their funding deals. How did the company start?

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MAY 19, 2017

Andrew Peterson: We have what we call a web protection platform, that provides other companies with protection against attackers who are attacking their web applications. Not to plug myself, but I've done some writing and published a book with O'Reilly, talking about security misconceptions. What is Signal Sciences?

Web 138

Web Startup Southern California Software 138

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The traditional way to handle that is to write code. What makes us unique, is we've got an automation platform which allows you to deploy in any of those ways. We can deliver a very functional, automation platform for less than $2000. However, as you can se eour our website, our motto is no code, no limits.

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Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

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JULY 29, 2009

Milo Sindell: Knowledge Genie is a software platform that anybody can use to capture, package, and publish what they know into an interactive online software application. Our online publishing platform allows users to monetize and share what they know. What is the idea behind Knowledge Genie? How did the company start?

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

Raph Koster: Metaplace is creating an end user platform, which allows people to build their own virtual worlds, and put it on any website on the Internet. Basically, it's an open platform, really aimed at end users. There are lots of slick entertainment platforms, but there are none that feel like Web 2.0, He's been great.

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Web Blogging Web 2.0 Startup 100

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Joey Flores: For starters, we're smart enough not to believe anything until it is in writing. Our platform already works really well for the bands, and because of that, we're going to spend a lot more time on the listeners and building the audience. How did you know they were serious?

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APRIL 8, 2014

We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. In some cases, we also leverage what we called our tiered device platform, the brand and company Rami has built over the last two decades plus, which is a supply chain, logistics, and distribution company and brand.

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Back at that time, I had people ask my--why would I ever want to read what other people are writing, isn't that what professional authors and journalists are for? Lunch.com was the platform to do all of that. We spent a lot of time proving out the platform, to see that it works. We wanted to get out of travel, into everything.

Content 204

Content Startup Sites Manhattan Beach 204

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MARCH 12, 2013

Where we see a lot of entrants fail, is trying to get the right balance between building and operating a high growth, highly scalable, mission critical network--while also building and operating a fast platform. Those two typically don't go together well. There's complexity in being a CDN.

CTO Hire 248

CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

Anyone can write a check, but not everyone can provide intellectual capital. It might be more difficult for a SaaS platform, or something that's not as tangible, but anything tangible in health and wellness, fashion, and any other kind of consumer group would be a good fit. And, that help is not always capital.

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APRIL 25, 2011

So, we really built some innovation into our platform, to make it ubiquitous in the mobile space. Even though write once and run anywhere has been the holy grail, I think it's the false prophet. We knew messaging was early in the hockey stick here in the U.S., That was our basis for doing something in text messaging.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

GoodThreads is a platform that helps nonprofits increase donations, awareness, and engagement for their cause, by allowing supporters to create their own, personalized merchandise that tells their story, with the proceeds going to the causes that they are so passionate about. So, what is GoodThreads?

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Pricing Design Startup Ideas 247

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JUNE 23, 2011

We stopped doing consumer facing content a year ago, and handed over writing of the Impact Section on Huffington Post to the team at AOL. Employee engagement is something we'll be releasing into our platform shortly. We're still powering actions there, but we're not doing editorial.

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JUNE 13, 2011

I spent six years in e-commerce, developing e-commerce platforms, and am pretty familiar with that. The site looks to be very well executed, where did you get the technology expertise to pull off the site? James Chung: My previous background is in software engineering. We have a really good team that brought this site up.

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MAY 15, 2010

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.) OTHER DEALS.

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JULY 23, 2012

If you've ever written a recommendation, it's one of those tings where someone requests one from you, and if you like that person and want to give them a recommendation, it's sort of a challenge to write something that is thoughtful and interesting and honest, but also not too fluffy. Plus, it makes it difficult from other recommendations.

CTO Hire 147

CTO Hire Startup Sites Technical Review 147

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JULY 20, 2011

We thought it was a real opportunity to bring in some taste-maker editors, who could write specifically for that audience, and break news. It really showed me how you can leverage the power of an online platform for marketers, helping to convince marketers that leveraging the web was a good way to spend and invest their money.

News 173

News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

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JULY 27, 2009

Microsoft SharePoint is a collaboration platform, typically hosted by an IT department. For SharePoint, we'll provide additional features--like the ability to upload and modify documents while offline, and synchronize with a SharePoint site, with both read and write community in the Pro version.

SaaS 127

SaaS Web Google Sites 127

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MAY 5, 2011

Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? In LA we have SoCalTech , for which I am grateful. I don’t write about LA but I write from LA. But who else is going to get out there and close your big biz dev deals with you?

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317