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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
I first met Ethan in 2005. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. And because I wanted Ethan to be able to attract a great team, build & iterate a product, test it with initial customers and refine his strategy before having to take the wrappers off of his company. Nice sweep!
socalTECH
MAY 11, 2011
There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference. This is my third company.
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socalTECH
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
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?
SoCal CTO
JUNE 9, 2010
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. Instead of making a few dollars per sale and hoping for thousands of sales, you sell to only a few customers, and charge much higher rates.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
They sign up through a web portal, online, and they create a resource pool. With all the complexity of the IT environment, how do you convince customers to add one more piece into this puzzle? The competitive advantages of doing this are very exciting, and we get a powerful response from both audiences.
socalTECH
MARCH 12, 2009
If you are a premium customer, we charge for the calls. The premium customer can buy that premium service in denominations of $25, $50, $100, or $200 dollars. Dialpad was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, and became the voice engine for Yahoo's VoIP services. It's 5 cents per call. John Nahm: Freemium has been working spectacularly.
socalTECH
JULY 20, 2009
One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. It gives them an escalation path only dealing with us.
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