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Zadspace: Adsense for Direct Mail
When I think of direct marketing I immediately gravitate towards online tactics, however a Los Angeles based startup, Zadspace, is attempting to disrupt offline direct mail campaigns. The company's patented process leverages a wealth of information related to the contents of the package and the eventual recipient of the package.
BetterWorks Aims to Make Work Rewarding
Startups are alive and well throughout the Los Angeles area, particularly in the Silicon Strand. One that stands out is BetterWorks, founded by Paige Craig, Sizhao "Zao" Yang, and George Ishii, which aims to "Make Work Rewarding".
Gogobot Joins Forces with Top Travel Booking Sites
Social travel recommendation site Gogobot launches integration with Expedia, Kayak, Orbitz, Priceline and Hotels.com Gogobot, a social travel site that connects users with friends via social networks for personalized travel advice, has integrated its service with top travel sites Expedia, Kayak, Hotels.com, Orbitz and Priceline....
The Birth of a Word
MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language so he set up video cameras throughout his house to catch every moment of his son’s life, then analyzed nearly 90,000 hours of home video to watch “gaaaa” slowly turn into “water.”
TaggingRobot is Delicious
Users of Facebook and Twitter share an enormous amount of information. However, that information can often become lost amidst the the rapidly flowing activity streams. TaggingRobot, a startup founded by former MySpace colleagues Todd Leeloy and Joe Munoz, is filling the need of surfacing interesting...
Loosecubes Sells the Invisible
A concept that I think Loosecubes fulfills is selling the invisible. Selling the invisible is the ability to take a given asset such as inventory, in this case office space, and make that inventory real.