Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

01% that means before even mid week arrives this startup company will have at least 18,511 people who will not only know this founders brand, but will have clicked over to the website. YouTube was not a hobby; it meant sales, it meant building customer relationships, it meant managing product inquires. If we apply that.01%

Dollar Shave Club 101

Dollar Shave Club Customer Custom Marketing 101

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2012 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2012. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start. Custom ad deals and partnerships.

Tech Coast Angels 105

Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Even though Lyft nor Sidecar presented at TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 they need to be mentioned as they were a huge time saver both getting from after party to after party and also to get to the airport. So company culture moves Lyft above Sidecar for me. Buzzcard makes branding company videos a piece of cake.

Startup 77

Startup Conference Google Web 77

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

The company is ServiceTitan, and its market… is air conditioners. Founded by Ara Mahdessian and Vahe Kuzoyan in 2012, ServiceTitan is very much an up-and-coming billion-dollar business that’s a family (minded) affair. The two men built a suite of services to help contractors like their fathers manage their businesses.

Glendale 271

Glendale Los Angeles Startup Technical Review 271

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. They feel very confident they can hit $18 – 20 million in 2012. And stop effing around trying to create a product company.&#. You’re a small fish. Why Shouldn’t Most Services Businesses Raise VC?

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Thursday, November 15, 2012 --. TCOSC Marketing and Sales Executives Society. As a marketer, this means that your ability to influence purchase decisions will be increasingly determined by what customers' social networks think about your product - in real-time. Driving Purchase Decisions in the Social Media Era.

Social Media 113

Social Media Media Technology Council TCOSC 113

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

Platform 82

Platform Help Customer Custom 82

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 4, 2012

Thursday, May 10, 2012 -- Accounting and Taxation for Startups. At the inception of a company the entrepreneur typically focuses on product development, RandD, customer relationships and sales and marketing.Often, accounting and taxation are overlooked.

OCTANE 100

OCTANE Startup Equity Sales 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs?

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Eric Greenspan

JULY 3, 2012

Make It Work was an amazing company. With over 38,000 cult-like testimonials, one cannot dispute the company delivered a valuable service in a way like no other company has come close. In doing so, I will assume all of the personally guaranteed loans and lines granted to the company. We failed because we tried.

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Capital Pricing Press Customer 234

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012).

Email 339

Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Saturday evening came to a “closing” with the Coloft tradition of the famous scene from Glengarry Glen Ross where Alec Baldwin defines the meaning of “closing” while he gives a nearly Oscar winning sales talk to motivate his staff. As Avesta Rasouli, SWLA Co-organizer and Founder of Coloft says, “Go sell something! Coffee is for closers!”

Startup 66

Startup Mahalo Technical Review Idealab 66

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

It's been quite a few years since we spoke with the company. Robert Blatt: We say to people that we do customer experience for multi-location brands. Our platform enables them to manage the digital representation of their locations, and engage with consumers in paid, social, and search, to improve that customer experience.

Google 127

Google Paid Search Mobile Activity 127

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Scott tells us how the company--backed by St. Cloud Capital--has managed to coax those equipment rental yards into the digital age, and how the company has tackled other challenges in focusing its business. Scott Cannon: We are an online marketplace for companies in the rental construction equipment space. What is BigRentz?

Startup 174

Startup Metrics Customer Custom 174

InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

Make It Work was an amazing company. With over 38,000 cult-like testimonials, one cannot dispute the company delivered a valuable service in a way like no other company has come close. In doing so, I will assume all of the personally guaranteed loans and lines granted to the company. We failed because we tried.

RSS 170

RSS Technical Review Capital Email 170

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Launching in 2012, Moreboats.com has been successful in reinventing the market of a mature boating industry. With a savvy reimagining of the online marketplace and an eye for customizing broker relationships, Moreboats.com is ready to revitalize the boat-selling experience.

Technical Review 101

Technical Review Startup Sales Marketing 101

Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Founded in Del Mar, CA in 2012, PacketSled has developed cloud-based technology that continuously monitors its customers’ computer networks, and provides automated intrusion detection, response, and forensics capabilities. The company also has an office in Seattle. The company raised $3 million in a 2013 seed round.

San Diego 40

San Diego Conference Funding Networking 40

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. What's the background on the company, and how did you start?

Software 100

Software Report Startup IBM 100

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

With a cloud lingering over the peer-to-peer lending industry, privately held National Funding is disclosing new details today about its operations, in a bid to step into the light and differentiate itself as a fintech company and alternative lender. million in 2012 to more than $59 million in 2015.

San Diego 40

San Diego Help Software Review Funding 40

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

With a cloud lingering over the peer-to-peer lending industry, privately held National Funding is disclosing new details today about its operations, in a bid to step into the light and differentiate itself as a fintech company and alternative lender. million in 2012 to more than $59 million in 2015.

Software Review 40

Software Review San Diego Funding Customer 40

Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

After my latest company collapsed in June of 2012, I went into a bit of a depression. This company I started with my own money and in my third bedroom, had grown and served its customers and employees well for over 11 years. The world changed, technology changed and the company was no longer relevant.

Startup 167

Startup Entrepreneur Writing Customer 167

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television.

Venture Capital 360

Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2013

Customers go there to check on the details of your offerings and verify that you are not a scam, investors look there to check out your management and sales approach, and suppliers expect to find contact information. Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer.

Web 99

Web Startup Sites Design 99

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

According to a January 2012 article in Forbes Magazine , nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. In Michael's case, he promised his parents that he would return to school if the sales at his startup did not meet his expectations. "I We Don't Need No Stinkin' Degrees. "As

Tips 247

Tips Startup Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 247

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2012

It highlights the story of how United Airlines in 2008 paid no attention to social media as Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. That’s how you brand yourself as an expert in your niche and make your company the one that others seek out and turn to. Maximize customer retention.

Social Media 79

Social Media Media Marketing Platform 79

Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. The differentiator is going to be customer experience.”. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Commerce San Diego Web 40

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

The large gathering of top investors spilled out of the office into the surrounding sidewalk and swelled with buzz and speculation of what the 10 newly formed companies had to offer. Okuno has been investing in Los Angeles startups for the past three years after selling his own company E-Z Data. Or maybe a goldmine. Founded by L.A.’s

Class 100

Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

O’Neil said, “ScoreBig.com is the only business that offers consumers deep savings on tickets in a way that protects the brand of the property and the integrity of full-price sales.” ” O’Neil believes that over 500 percent growth in the last year, ScoreBig.com amazing capacity to revolutionize unsold ticket inventory.

Ticketmaster 65

Ticketmaster Entertainment Pricing Class 65

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 24, 2016

In 2012, my company plundered and it was horrific…bygones. Learning of my company’s demise, Seth called me with the schoolofbookkeeping.com project and asked for my help. The company was always run as a subsidiary of Nerd Enterprises, Inc., Seth’s company. We even considered raising capital.

Content 100

Content Blogging Burbank Course 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. CallFire technology is already playing a prominent role in 2012 political races across the spectrum.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2015

Come take a tour of some of the hottest LA Tech companies located in Culver City! Why not stop by for a quick beer, game, snack or just say hi at one of the many Culver City tech companies from 6pm to 10:30pm? What: It’s like a bar crawl, but featuring tech companies instead of bars. Starting Point. Jefferson Blvd).

Culver City 40

Culver City Media Web Design 40

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Bill Gross founded Idealab in March 1996 and serves as the company’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab. Bill serves on the boards of directors of numerous companies. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start.

Idealab 84

Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. We''re now figuring out to take that to market and driving it through our sales channel. READ MORE>>.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

The benefits “digital interactions” have and continue to offer coupon companies are vast. For starters, online couponing allows for great promotion of brands and wider distribution; not to mention it also allows companies to better reach & track consumer preferences and patterns. A study conducted by Rice University’s Jesse H.

Mobile 85

Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. We''re now figuring out to take that to market and driving it through our sales channel. READ MORE>>.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Enplug is a fast-growing, ubiquitous Silicon Beach company. You might be aware of their products – perhaps having seen their digital media signs in your favorite local restaurant or bar, but what you might not know is their compelling founders’ story and unique company culture. Meet Nanxi Liu, CEO and a cofounder of Enplug.

Social Media 106

Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 106

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

Marketers see it as a better way to target customers, but the current consumer offerings have been slow to deliver. Groupon’s recent purchase of Whrrl parent company Pelago indicates more plans here. If you think location-based services are a long way from mainstream, take a look at the new 2012 Digital Study.

Services 82

Services Competition Mobile Entertainment 82