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LeanLA December Meetup: Conquering Madison Avenue as a Lean Startup

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Battle stories and lessons learned about how Sharethrough, applying the lean startup process, figured out the advertising landscape and customer developed their way into the door of a myriad of Fortune 500 customers. Tuesday, December 14, 2010 -- LeanLA December Meetup: Conquering Madison Avenue as a Lean Startup.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. It offers Internet radio targeted advertising and is growing really well. My take was that this follows three trends: a) customer involvement in product design, b) mass customization [e.g. But I made it for a reason.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. they have purchasing intent ).*. Here’s why.

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

socalTECH

The platform approach we took allows teams and companies and venues to access the best functionality, at a subcription price, rather than a custom development price. We have what is called a mult-dimensional, segmentation engine, that helps them understand their fans on the platform, and provide advertisers with specifics.

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Interview With Startup Boost, Matt Stodder and Blake Caldwell

socalTECH

They fail to understand what the market is, what their differentiation is to their customers. Blake Caldwell: We believe heavily in customer in customer development. You have to understand your customers and partners. If they are good at customer development, we'll look at that as well.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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Traffic.com sold 10-second in-content advertising spots to local TV broadcasters. Assistly is a customer support product designed to meet the needs of the current era of multi-channel touch points (think Twitter, email, chat, forum in addition to phone calls). So the whole customer development cycle is very streamlined.