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Venture Conference Highlights SoCal Startups

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Southern California's top startups showed up in force Friday at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, for the Technology Council of Southern California's annual VentureNet conference. David Sacks, one of the co-founders of PayPal, pitched Geni.com, an online site focused on both family trees and social networking.

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

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I'd rather invest time investing in social media to drive traffic to our site. VentureNet, Perfect Pitch You and I have both been on the board of the technology council. We have traditionally been a company heard about through word of mouth, radio advertising (now our own show) and from a Mini sighting. Love the minis!

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Interview with DialPlus

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We recently ran into Dialplus (www.dialplus.net), a company which is developing mobile applications which pull up social networking profiles from Facebook or other sites when you make a phone call to a friend. The firm was pitching for funding at the Technology Council of Southern California's VentureNet event earlier this month.