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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. Laughstub : Laughstub is a full service ticketing solution for comedy clubs.

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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

socalTECH

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? Our platform is on all devices and all those communications channels, and is able to detect when consumers are referencing products, services, brand, and merchants in their communications among themselves. What does that look like?

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Digitzs: Taking On The Pain Of Payment Processing

socalTECH

Laura Wagner: It's old school, but since the 1800's every business has been called a merchant, and we unfortunately come from what is called the merchant services world. The example is, there might be a platform that processes ticket payments for a marathon race, or one for a concert�such as Ticketmaster. What's next for you?

Platform 113
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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. Forty-seven percent of people still don't use online banking. Yet, only four percent of the U.S.

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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

We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. Traditionally, growing an enterprise software company is very different from a dot-com or an application service provider solution.

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