Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

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. We had executives from the studios like Fox, Warner Bros and Disney.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

If I write back, and tell them to stay at the Marriott in Del Mar, we would detect the Marriott Del Mar in your message, whether that's on Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, in a text message, in an email, or whatever, and convert that into a link to one of our merchants who are part of the Wildfire network. What does that look like?

San Diego 159

San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

There are a lot of people out there who can "write code", but very few good engineers. Ive personally seen big companies such as Ticketmaster and MySpace do a great job building an extremely talented team of highly motivated, Scrappy engineers. The bottom line is that it is hard to find good engineers.

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socalTECH

MAY 20, 2016

The example is, there might be a platform that processes ticket payments for a marathon race, or one for a concert�such as Ticketmaster. I'm actually writing a book on raising money this way. Nowadays, VCs are just going to later stage and are writing bigger checks. There are platforms for donating to nonprofits, and so on.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

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. The reason why people don't adopt it, is because of security and ease of use.

Technology 124

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Blue-chip customers such as Intuit, Williams-Sonoma, Fox Sports/MSN, Ticketmaster, Glaxo Smith Kline, Clear Channel, WebEx and Netflix turn to StrongMail infrastructure to bring enterprise-class reliability to their email systems. StrongMail’s software ensures reliable and timely delivery of their critical customer communications.

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