Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

With the advent of social media and the pervasive move to smartphones, even customers who still prefer to purchase in brick-and-mortar stores have dramatically changed their shopping habits. If you refuse to play by their rules, they have the power to easily find alternatives, and actively pull other potential customers away.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Slacker said Thursday that it will offer up a new Slacker Radio app on select Lexus models, and soon on select Toyota model years from 2011 to 2015. Slacker said the apps will give Toyota and Lexus owners the ability to create personalized, custom radio stations featuring news, comedy, and music.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

With Darkstore, companies like Nike, Adidas and Levis are able to offer same-day delivery to customers by storing their products inside Darkstore’s urban fulfillment centers. While all of the products available on FastAF will come from a Darkstore, not all of the retailers featured in FastAF are Darkstore customers.

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JANUARY 21, 2016

According to Yardi, residential property owner and manager Old El Paso Real Estate adopted the company's Yardi Genesis software, for its property management and accounting software earlier in 2015.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Past investors also included Y Combinator, where GrubMarket was part of the Winter 2015 cohort), and for some more context, GrubMarket last raised money in April 2019 , $28 million at a $228 million valuation, a source says. “We had to limit our daily delivery volume in some regions, and put new customers on waiting lists.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

Most importantly, it’s more about being a proactive leader who connects to customers and the team deeply, rather than a bright light that struggles to be seen amidst the glare of a million other bright lights. Marty Zwilling Published on IvyExec.com on 11/05/2015. Everyone recognizes the visible and verbal queues of energy.

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MARCH 15, 2019

A global pharmaceutical company based in France has licensed software developed by San Diego digital health startup CureMatch that aims to help cancer doctors customize the combination of drugs they prescribe to patients based on mutations in cancer DNA. The company, which CEO Bob Manning says has raised about $2.5

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Since it launched in 2015 it has expanded into adjacent categories and become one of the biggest retailers of the current e-commerce craze. These days, GOAT is about more than just shoes, at least according to the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

CommissionTrac was founded in 2015. According to Yardi, it will be integrating CommmissionTrac's platform into its CommercialEdge suite, and will continue to support existing CommissionTrac customers. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

According to SpaceX and Astrium, Astrium will work with SpaceX to market the Falcon 1 launch capabilities to space agencies and other customers in Europe, for launches starting in 2015. Financial details of the deal between SpaceX and Astrium were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 27, 2017

The privately held firm did not disclose any financial details of the quarter, only saying that it increased Q1, year-over-year new customer wins by 100%, adding such customers as Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company and Canadian transportation company Bison Transport. It says it now has more than 600 customers. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Of course Beatriz is the female in the picture above and if you want a taste of the impact she makes watch her own the 800-person audience despite being on stage with Magic Johnson, Troy Carter and Tristan Walker in this epic video dispelling myths about businesses targeting diverse customer bases. home ownership in 2015 (NAHREP).

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JULY 10, 2015

percent of its total revenues in the first quarter of 2015, and that it estimates that its users supplied 7 percent of AutoNation's Q1 2015 new vehicle sales. The two cut ties after a dispute over sharing of customer information. TrueCar said that AutoNation had represented 3.1

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JANUARY 7, 2015

Irvine-based customer service outsourcing provider Alorica said Wednesday afternoon that it has paid $275M for the agent services businesses of West Corporation. billion in revenues in 2015. alorica business process outsourcing west corporation merger acquisition customer service nearshoring offshoring' READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2016

The company said it had record growth in 2015, and now has over 430 enterprise customers and more than 1 million users. Chrome River is backed by private equity investor Great Hill Partners, which invested $100M in the company in June of 2015. The company did not say what that translates to in terms of revenues.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Under Hsieh’s leadership, Zappos revolutionized the apparel industry, and e-commerce in general, by being one of the first to prioritize customer satisfaction and service. To build trust in e-commerce with the greater public, his company came up with innovative ideas and fostered new customer behaviors.

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JUNE 12, 2013

Hawthorne-based commercial rocket and spaceship developer SpaceX is expanding its range of possible customers today, with a deal with the military''s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC). The Space and Missle Systems Center said the earliest a launch contract would be awarded would be 2015, with the first launch in 2017. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 17, 2019

Santa Monica-based cloud-based learning and human capital management provider Cornerstone OnDemand is looking to attract more small business customers, as it extends from its core enterprise market, by offering up a free trial to those businesses. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2016

In business, this means an entrepreneur who never says no to any customer is doomed to a hard life and some expensive mistakes. Many people will argue that total customer satisfaction is paramount, but I’m a pragmatist who believes that treating everyone the same really means treating all of them poorly.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 29, 2020

To date, the company has linked patients with over 200,000 home visits from doctors since its launch in 2015. We continue to see high levels of customer satisfaction and improved health outcomes when care is delivered in the home.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

Los Angeles-based ParkMe , the real time parking information app developer, has scored a win over at Texas A&M University, the company said this week, to allow customers to purchase electronic parking passes online. Financial impact of the win was not announced.

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MAY 14, 2019

According to L Squared, since its investment in Virtium in July of 2015, Virtium saw its organic revenues more than double, and a tripling of its EBITDA. the company provides customized, ruggedized, and highly engineered industrial grade embedded solid state drive (SSD) and memory products.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So mostly we just had to listen to customer feedback from founders, VCs and LPs. For example, we’re now already well into our third growth fund that we started in 2015 (the first returned 2x cash in 3.5 Kara is a natural leader and loves taking ownership of tasks and over-performing.

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JANUARY 12, 2015

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AUGUST 7, 2014

Bryce Maddock: TaskUs is the best provider in the world of customer care and back office services for emerging growth companies. Customer care, obviously, is emails, phone calls, and customer service back office services. Bryce Maddock: We''re fortunate enough to work with a vast majority of today''s most successful startups.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

million to the FTC and the State of New Jersey, to settle charges that it has been collecting the viewing history of its customers without their consent. The charges had been filed by the Federal Trade Commission and the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General in 2015.

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MAY 5, 2015

San Diego-based software developer Tealium , which develops software used to manage enterprise "tags", those snippets of codes used for tracking advertising, marketing, analytics, and other efforts, said today that it had 100% growth in the first quarter of 2015. The company did not disclose any actual revenue numbers.

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JULY 28, 2016

The company did not disclose any financials, but said it saw nearly 200% growth in the first half of the year compared to the same period in 2015. San Diego-based SmartDrive Systems , which develops video-based, driver monitoring systems, announced today that it had record growth in its second quarter and first half of 2016.

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JULY 20, 2016

3PL Central said that the acquisition will help it to accelerate its product development cycles, provide more solutions, and bolster its Customer Success team. 3PL Central is led by John Watkins, who remains CEO of the combined company; 3PL raised funding from Mainsail Partners back in 2015. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 1, 2016

Willdan said Genesys had approximately $30M in revenues in 2015, and provides planning, design, project management, and commissioning services for the energy and utility infrastructure of major facilities and large building complexes. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

The company said that it already has seen more than 50,000 customers clicking in through those links in the last few weeks, resulting in 21,000 orders for its restaurant customers. ChowNow is led by Christopher Webb.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x Every VC who’s been the business for a long time realized first hand that the VC markets were changing rapidly as early as Q3 of 2015. Total customers grew 20% year/year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2015

It’s all about getting customers to make a buy decision. Customers are more in control of their buying decisions than ever before, with the wealth of alternatives and information available online, and interactive access to sources they trust via social media. Get the view from the customer early by talking to real people.

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JULY 18, 2016

Los Angeles-based Pipeliner CRM , the developer of customer relationship management software led by Nikolaus Kimla, has rolled out a new release of its CRM tools, which it says adds new data visualization capabilities. Actual revenue numbers were not detailed. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 7, 2016

In addition to standard storage services, the startup takes photographs of its customers' various items, and provides an online inventory of that stuff. The funding comes on top of a $10.75M funding round closed in October of 2015 for the startup.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The company said its Series A was raised in 2015, and came from Index Ventures. The company said its founding team came from Etsy, and that its software is already being used by such customers as Under Armour, Etsy, Yelp/Eat 24, Shutterstock, Prezi, and others.

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