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Local Onliner

Feb 8
2013

Ethan Anderson Launches Online ‘Scheduling Supermarket’

Red Beacon founder Ethan Anderson has unveiled his latest project, MyTime, a “scheduling supermarket” that sets dynamic pricing for unfilled appointments. Online scheduling intrigues us as a gateway towards promotions and transactions, but it remains underutilized by SMBs and the space is also highly fragmented. The site launched today in Los Angeles with 1,106 “fully …continue reading »

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Jan 21
2012

Home Depot Buys RedBeacon

The Home Depot is set to significantly boost its home contractor leads network with today’s acquisition of RedBeacon. No price was announced for the acquisition, which puts Home Depot in the same boat as Sears, which has been quietly developing ServiceLive, its own contractor leads service. RedBeacon, which takes a 10 percent commission for service …continue reading »

Categories: Money, Sales Channels, Verticals

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Sep 9
2010

BigTent Focuses on Leveraging its One Million (Mostly Women) Users

Groups have been using the Web since the mid-1980s for a wide range of activities, such as scheduling, discussions, photo sharing, referrals etc. Groups have been a special strength for Yahoo. BigTent, a group software company based in San Francisco, has recently been vying with Yahoo for the same market, focusing largely on women. It …continue reading »

Categories: Shopping/Transactions, Social Media

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Aug 5
2010

Redbeacon Raises $7.4 Million; Interview with CEO Ethan Anderson

Redbeacon, the six person San Francisco based service referral company, announced today that it has raised a heady $7.4 million in Series A financing from Mayfield Fund and Venrock. CEO and Co-founder Ethan Anderson tells us that the company needed such a huge round to quickly ramp up the staff, including engineers, designers and marketing …continue reading »

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Oct 21
2009

HelpHive, a Referral Site, Seeks to Rope in SMBs with Free Video

Smelling blood at the presumed decline of Yellow Pages, a number of sites have launched that provide leads to local service SMBs. You got Angie’s List on the membership side. And ServiceMagic, Tree.com’s DoneRight, Sears’ ServiceLive and a number of regional companies (i.e. RedBeacon, Fixr, LocalPrice) using some type of leads model. Now add HelpHive. …continue reading »

Categories: Local Search, Sales Channels, Verticals, Video

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