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DECEMBER 6, 2011

Panache offers up a variety of video ad formats to marketers and advertisers, and counts Fox News, CBS, and MTV Networks as customers. The firm was founded in 2006. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

Nasty Gal is led by Sophia Amoruso, who started the company selling vintage clothing on eBay in 2006; the company says its now had over $28M in revenues in 2011, with revenues increasing around 500 percent each year. The brand says 35 percent of its sales occur outside of the US, and that it now has over 150,000 customers in 50 countries.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

The company also said the sale will provide a "greater investment stream" to its InfiniBand customers and partners. QLogic entered the InfiniBand market in 2006, when it pay $109M in cash for InfiniBand equipment maker PathScale. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 20, 2010

Long Beach-based Apriso , a privately held firm developing manufacturing software, said today that it saw "strong customer growth" in the quarter from manufacturers in the solar, fuel cell, and battery industries. Apriso reported its customers now include Boston-Power, Chevrolet Volt, Isuzu, and NGK Spark Plug Co.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

Exposure to customers, incumbents, and competitors all drive success. Being close to your customers, your vendors, or even your competitors can make all the difference. Since 2006, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York, has grown by more than 65 percent.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We successfully pivoted to a flexible workplace in 2020, which includes transitioning our 70-member Customer Care team to work from home in less than a week. He started Spokeo with his college roommates Mike Daly (CTO) and Eric Liang (CIO) in 2006 in his parents basement. Harrison Tang is the CEO and Co-founder of Spokeo.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money. The number of current potential customers is large and growing. Solutions that may be viewed as “nice to have” or “satisfies a higher-level need” won’t get funded. Design a product or service that you can sell.

Platform 118

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Tanner Research scored its initial contract for the technology in 2006. Tanner provides technology research in the area of image processing, chemical detection, and other areas for such customers as the Department of Defense, NASA, NPL, the Department of Defense, IBM, Microsoft, and Intel.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Since 2006, NASE has handed out almost $1,000,000 through the program. Small Business Administration, but the lenders competitive interest rates and flexible repayment terms still make it a great option, especially if you're an existing Bank of America customer. Create a membership here Deadline: Applications are reviewed quarterly 3.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Even the New York Stock Exchange did one with the acquisition of Archipelago Holdings via a "double dummy" merger way back in 2006 in a $10 billion deal to create the NYSE Group. You may no longer have the option of investing all earnings into growth, or servicing your special corporate cause. Yet reverse mergers are not all bad.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

A startup leader's primary responsibility is to maximize the return to its stakeholders, which include the company's global and local neighbors, employees, suppliers, customers and investors. A month from now it is unlikely that a supportive customer will drive across town to demonstrate their solidarity with the company.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Comarco's wireless test business provides wireless network testing for mobile service providers; its customers include Verizon, AT&T, and Rogers Canada. Ascom and Comarco have been working together on mobile test products since 2006. Comarco said the divestiture should "dramatically" reduce its operating costs.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2008

El Segundo-based iRise has signed on automotive giant General Motors as a customer for its application simulation software, the firm said Tuesday. Financial impact of the customer win was not disclosed. According to iRise, General Motors is deploying its visual modeling technology as part of developing new IT systems at the company.

El Segundo 113

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 13, 2009

After the slideshow, we chatted about Make It Work’s culture, specifically, our philosophy of “employees first, customers next&# and our dedication to delighting every customer we serve. We talked about “ON IT,&# as a means to responding NOW to every customer request. It was a great day!

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

percent of the domestic market in 2006 but watched that slip to 8.4 For instance, Empire Today , the national shop-at-home carpet and flooring company, has used Invoca''s solution to power marketing partners'' call-based campaigns, increasing its marketing reach and delivering thousands of additional inbound customer calls each month.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

We focus on digital transformation and customer experience. When you start doing that, you create an offering that can be purchased by more customers, and that becomes easier to maintain for us. It's about the customer life cycle, and taking a single view of your customer. What is LifeRay?

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2011

They had been slowly building their technology and growing customers, and it was a very much break-even type of business. Jeb Spencer: When we first met Accordent, they were doing less than $1M in revenue, and were located a block from the beach in Hermosa Beach, but we were amazed at the number of customers they already had acquired.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class.

Cloud Computing 188

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Even the New York Stock Exchange did one with the acquisition of Archipelago Holdings via a "double dummy" merger way back in 2006 in a $10 billion deal to create the NYSE Group. You may no longer have the option of investing all earnings into growth, or servicing your special corporate cause. Yet reverse mergers are not all bad.

Summary 121

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2009

According to CEO Eric David Greenspan , the firm has just turned its first profitable quarter, in Q4, and increased its bank balance for the first time since it received funding from the Tech Coast Angels in 2006. Greenspan said the moves helped the firm lower its cost of acquisition of new customers. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The same thing happened with algae biofuel companies in the 2006 and 2009 time frame. It's the same in clean tech, where three are now plenty of solar panels and electric vehicles deployed, and there are a sufficient quantity of customers you can service and established markets, not like it was ten years ago. more) READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

CTO Hire 248

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Exposure to customers, incumbents, and competitors all drive success. Being close to your customers, your vendors, or even your competitors can make all the difference. Since 2006, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York, has grown by more than 65 percent.

Startup 97

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 It should talk about how many customers you think you will acquire and how much you’ll charge for your product. Do you really want to spent $100k building a product to discover through Customer Development that the market is too small?

Web 2.0 334

Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 20, 2016

In 2006, I gave a keynote speech at the Newspaper Association of America’s national conference in Chicago. At our company, we give our Channel partners customized web portals where they can log on and instantly see their pipeline and upcoming payments. By Kim Shepherd.

Writing 120

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

So that we’re speaking the same language I would define “exclusive” as a period in which your company is prohibited from doing business with certain customers or business partners, which is why many incorrectly assume this is necessarily bad. Why Exclusivity Matters to Your Customers or Business Development Partners.

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Startup Custom Customer 150

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 13, 2009

The seven minute piece went on to showcase many of our accomplishments as a company, including the awarding of Services Company of the Year in 2006 by the Tech Council of Southern California and our back to back wins of “Best of Computer Repair&# in Santa Barbara, voted on by readers of the Independent. They asked, I agreed.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

. “By joining Microsoft, we will be able to take advantage of the tremendous momentum of the Microsoft Office Division, tightly interoperate with its products, and deliver this technology to a very broad set of customers.” The PPI screens too have a huge market potential.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2018

Access control, as a whole, hasn't evolved over forty years, and we're bringing technology like the mobile cloud and software in the cloud, to create really disruptive innovation to how businesses respond to customers. We then started Edgecast in 2006. There are a bunch of different constituents who are customers.

Startup 100

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money. The number of current potential customers is large and growing. Solutions that may be viewed as “nice to have” or “satisfies a higher-level need” won’t get funded. Design a product or service that you can sell.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 24, 2018

Being one small company amongst the sea of thousands of startups vying for customers, capital, and talent, the way to get noticed above the crowd, connect with that next big partner, and raise some capital is to throw your hat in the ring to compete at Startup of the Year.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

acquired by AOL in 2006), a Senior Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs of Universal Studios, and a senior business and legal affairs executive at New Line Cinema and Savoy Pictures Entertainment. Custom ad deals and partnerships. MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo! Contact us at sponsor@techzulu.com.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. In 2006, the whole concept was new and novel, and I converted by engineering site to an art site. myself and two women who do customer service and tech support for me via phone and email. all of that for more than a 100,000 members.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

We started in 2006, with an in-venue trial at the Alamo Bowl, where we gave out prizes and coupons. Jose daVeiga: In 2006, we started developing the concept, consisting of a PA announcement and a Jumbotrom image. In 2006, I decided, after Kent bugged me a lot, that it was time to try and make it a business.

Patents 179

Patents CarsDirect Sites Ideas 179

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

We instructed customers about how eCommerce was going to change their future. It kind of reminds me a bit of how “social media experts&# are talking to customers today). Make sure you focus on what matters – your customers. Now is your moment to double up on your efforts to understand your customer base.

Startup 310

Startup Press Venture Capital Journal 310

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

Allows customers to select potential inventory through Be the Buyer program. Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. Previously raised $100m Series A from Sequioa, Battery Ventures, and General Catalyst in 2006. Has 150 employees and is opening a HQ in SF and a supply-chain office in LA.

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