socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

My other co-founder, Rusty Jenkins, was also with that company, doing sales. There's an awful lot of check-in sites out there. Why would someone want to use your site? For local businesses, we're also giving them free mobile web sites, and working on other relationships. Can you talk about how your company is funded?

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2012

The firm just announced its seed funding round, from the founders of Groupon as other last week, and has launched into Chicago as its latest market. We spoke with Tony Adam , the firm's CEO, about the company's new funding round. As a reminder to our readers who haven't used EventUp, what is the site all about?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. We''ll mostly be doing enterprise sales here, but also looking at the technology and design front, hiring better talent, taking design to a new level than maybe what we are in China. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. Tell us about your backers?

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Building a standout destination site for video gamers takes moxie in the highly competitive and lucrative on-line game industry. Jeff looks for these same qualities in the companies he backs. For evidence of this you need go no further than Jason Xu, the founder of Battlefy. Unwinding at an Amplify party.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The startup--which is part of MuckerLab--landed a seed funding round last week, so we thought we''d catch up with founder and CEO Farbod Shoraka to dig deeper into the company''s goals and service. Florists receive their orders through these other sites, but the problem is, there''s no profit. What is BloomNation? READ MORE>>.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Building a standout destination site for video gamers takes moxie in the highly competitive and lucrative on-line game industry. Jeff looks for these same qualities in the companies he backs. For evidence of this you need go no further than Jason Xu, the founder of Battlefy. Unwinding at an Amplify party.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2015

We did that with mobile ads, essentially promoting different mobile apps after a user would visit a site like TMZ or IGN. I had done almost 30 deals in my life, the majority on the buy side, and a couple of the sales side. It looks like you guys only raised less than a million in seed funding? Keith Bonnici: For sure.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. My blog was wiped out. And covered we did. Biggest lessons ….

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

He went from recruiter to IT manager to technical sales… Then, he did such a great job in sales that we had to build up more infrastructure for our ad-serving and email delivery platform to support the increased demand. With enterprise software, your product sits at the customer’s site.

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