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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Putting customers first. Legendary customer support. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. Innovative.

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Interview with Eli Portnoy, ThinkNear

socalTECH

Towards the end of last month, Culver City-based ThinkNear (www.thinknear.com) announced a seed round of funding for its location-based mobile advertising service, with notable inclusion of such firms as IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and others. Our only customers are merchants. How are you doing things differently?

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

socalTECH

Those technologies allow us to scale and offer a superior product for customers. He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing. Who are your core customers?

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Interview with Jeff Green, The Trade Desk

socalTECH

The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. Jeff Green: To fully understand what we're up to, you need to understand the evolution of online advertising. AdECN was a system that basically was trying to be the New York Stock Exchange of advertising.

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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

socalTECH

There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference. Back to the website, describe who the demographics are of your customers? I ended up managing that project. That turned out great, which I did for five years.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value). But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. Our centralization is their achilles heel.

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Eleven Startup Tips From Richard Branson

InfoChachkie

1) Give Your Customers (And The Media) What They Want. He used this term so often that it eventually became the title of his 2005 book on business advice. Richard built upon the fact that record companies were Student’s biggest advertisers to subsequently launch a record store. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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