SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Thursday, February 12, 2009 -- Caltech Executive Education: Taking Technology Products to Market. Attend this 2 day course to learn how to provide customers with crystal-clear product positioning, meaningful branding, and carefully timed launch strategies. Stand out in your competitive marketplace. See [link] (more).

Product 100

Product Marketing Technology CalTech 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 -- PDMA: How Three Dimensions of Customer Experience Give You the Wow Factor. See [link] (more).

Custom 100

Custom Customer Research Services 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2011

Every startup needs to understand that the customer paradigm has dramatically shifted over the past two years with pervasive social networks and smartphones. If your business doesn’t connect with your customers, individually and as a community, demanding customers will not only ignore you, but will actively keep other customers away.

Customer 91

Customer Custom Startup Networking 91

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2009

Carlsbad-based Aptera, the electric car startup backed by Google and Idealab, is delaying delivery of the firm's vehicles to customers, according to a letter to customers. The firm said that it plans to build a "much slower rate" starting with a small test fleet.

Idealab 100

Idealab Product Google Startup 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

There are many others, like the classic book about Ratan Tata bringing out the Nano car way back in 2009 in India for less than $2,500. Even though the car was not a success for production reasons, the book “ Nanovation ,” by Kevin & Jackie Freiberg, still makes some great points. Look beyond customer imagination.

Entrepreneur 136

Entrepreneur Technology Ideas Examples 136

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 -- People are talking about your products. How can sentiment analysis impact the direction of your product development? Innovative companies are using new tools and techniques to capture the voice-of-market to help drive their product roadmaps. Do you know what theyre saying?

Product 100

Product Tool Design Marketing 100

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

I was talking with an early-stage founder who has a product vision and wants to get it built. He wanted to get input from me on what he's doing, and he wants to begin to ask developers what it would take to build his product. Me : Product definition, use cases, feature list, wireframes, comps, really whatever you have.

Develop 354

Develop Development Technical Review CTO Coach 354

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

01% conversion rate again to the people who clicked over to the website from the YouTube video, that’s 185 new customers, 185 people who would have never thought to google search for a tampon service, who will now be signing up to spend the 15 bucks a month to get tampons delivered to their door. If we apply that.01% Artist: Kennedy.

Dollar Shave Club 101

Dollar Shave Club Custom Customer Marketing 101

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. We help our customers weave together all the data across all of their data streams,” Lunsford said.

Custom 40

Custom Customer San Diego JavaScript 40

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The two have been working together since 2009 to make Cornerstone's larger, enterprise targeted offerings, available to ADP's larger customers. Cornerstone OnDemand recently started rolling out products aimed at the small business segment. Financial details of the strategic alliance were not announced.

Cornerstone OnDemand 100

Cornerstone OnDemand Santa Monica Outsource Resource 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2020

Here are some example strategies to pitch and practice: Adapt an existing product to a new use. You may offer a different application for an existing product, a new pricing model, or a new level of support. Or find an entirely different application for an existing product. Innovation doesn’t even require technology.

Startup 129

Startup Artificial Inteligence Examples Google 129

socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Cleantech had an enormous rise and fall between 20006 and 2009. However, they all required an enormous amount of money to build out their products, and lots of those companies were disappointments. Lots has changed since 2009. In 2009, the finance world fell apart, and the venture world fell apart, and I returned to Pasadena.

Invest 113

Invest Capital Venture Capital Idealab 113

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

Since 2009 we’ve been in an unequivocal bull market. It’s when the noise stops and you can actually get customer attention, press articles and VC meetings. ” Case studies get done with ebullient CEO’s espousing the benefits of said software even though their organization was barely using the product.

Marketing 354

Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

socalTECH

MAY 22, 2012

Van Nuys-based Audiolife , the startup which provided product fulfillment for the music industry and artists, has been acquired by Florida firm Alliance Entertainment. Audiolife was founded in 2009. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Entertainment 138

Entertainment Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Acquisition 138

socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

Fountain Valley-based Kingston Technology , the provider of computer memory products, reported today that it has hit a record, $6.5 billion increase in its sales over 2009. Kingston said demand from both corporate customers and consumers was strong. billion in revenues in 2010. READ MORE>>.

Technology 140

Technology Demand Pricing Sales 140

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

It’s important to note slippage indicators, including less internal feedback on requirements to fight competitors, and more focus inward than outward on customers needs and trends. Amazon, for example , “grew up” in the last recession by continuing to expand their range of products and focused on automation.

Metrics 122

Metrics Training Satisfaction IBM 122

socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online Audio , the audio conferencing arm of Citrix Online, reports today that it has signed on the American Cancer Society, Midwest Division, as a customer. The firm said that the American Cancer Society is using its HiDef Corporate audio conferencing product. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed.

Santa Barbara 140

Santa Barbara Conference Report Custom 140

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

San Diego-based Verve Wireless is reporting tonight that the firm served up 100 million mobile news pages per month in 2009, up 160% year over year. The firm attributed the growth in news page views to local media partners, who have recently been signing up to the company's white label mobile application product. READ MORE>>.

News 164

News Mobile San Diego Media 164

socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

We started focusing on that, and at the time we were doing only phone verification, but then we started adding in data analytics because of customer demand, we added in some other things like straight messaging rather than pin codes. What enabled you to get that first customer on board? We were really focused on customer acquisition.

Marina Del Rey 113

Marina Del Rey Software Review Startup Incubator 113

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. This team is talented.

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 13, 2009

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 -- "How Predictive Analytics Improve Your Product Portfolio Pipeline" PDMA. Sustaining product innovation is one of the greatest challenges of product development and management professionals. See [link] (more).

Ideas 100

Ideas Custom Customer Product 100

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

We focus on digital transformation and customer experience. Bryan Cheung: What we're specifically doing, is a product called the LifeRay digital experience platform. How did the shift come from consulting services to a product? Bryan Cheung: In 2009, we switch to a subscription model. What is LifeRay?

Diamond Bar 169

Diamond Bar Custom Customer Organization 169

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2019

There are many others, like the classic book about Ratan Tata bringing out the Nano car in 2009 in India for less than $2,500. Even though the car was not a success for production reasons, the book “ Nanovation ,” by Kevin & Jackie Freiberg, still makes some great points. Look beyond customer imagination.

Examples 93

Examples Ideas Entrepreneur Study 93

CEO Flow

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Unfortunately it bears reposting again before 2009. ———– For companies selling products worth less than $100,000-$250,000, the old school strategy of hiring more feet-on-the-street to drive revenue growth is failing more often. Salespeople do not cause customer acquisition growth, they fulfill it.

Sales 40

Sales Custom Customer Acquisition 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

MindTree said it expects an increase of approximately $9M in revenues between October 2009 to March 2010 related to the deal. employs approximately 600, who provide wireless product development, software engineering, and product testing for Kyocera Wireless, and also develops custom handsets for Indian service providers.

Software Engineering 133

Software Engineering San Diego Competition Acquisition 133

socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online Audio , the audio conferencing arm of Citrix Online, reports today that it has signed on the American Cancer Society, Midwest Division, as a customer. The firm said that the American Cancer Society is using its HiDef Corporate audio conferencing product. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed.

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Conference Report Custom 100

socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2019

Jay Budzik: ZestFinance was founded in 2009, by Douglas Merrill, the former CIO at Google, in order to make fair and transparent credit available to everyone. Because we're able to help people invset in digital channels online, and with mobile apps, and the rest, wer're attracting a whole new group of folks to their lending products.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Tool CIO Custom 113

socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2016

However, if history is any lesson, downturns actually have created some of Southern California's most successful technology companies, whether through forcing those companies to swizzle their business models, by removing competition from the market, or even spurring customers to more readily adopt their products to save money.

Southern California 100

Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Technical Review SoCal 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

This was 2009 and his understanding of audience engagement was far beyond anything I was hearing from most people at that time. And after one meeting they started asking for his advice about marketing, customer engagement, product design, monetization – whatever. I reached out after the event to learn more.

Conference 150

Conference Slides Social Media Summary 150

socalTECH

MAY 13, 2010

According to Farmers Insurance, its eZsign initiative allows customers to settle claims using electronic signatures. Farmers said it initially launched the product in December of 2009 in three states, and has now rolled it out to a total of 16 states.

Santa Barbara 113

Santa Barbara SaaS Sites Software 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 15, 2009

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 -- TechBiz Connection: Marketing 101. Sustainable, organic growth in a company;s revenues requires excellence in the creation and successful introduction of products and services that provide customer value. What is its role in the product creation / innovation process? See [link] (more).

Marketing 100

Marketing TechBiz Activity Organization 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 12, 2009

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 -- The CommNexus Location Based Services SIG Presents: Real Revenue Opportunities in LBS for 2009. What products and applications are making money in LBS? What models have been proven to attract customers AND make money? Is Navigation still king?

Mobile 100

Mobile Customer Custom Services 100

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

In many cases, I can break it down into: Customer Acquisition Cost – how will you reach prospects, how will you convert them and how much will it cost to convert them Customer Lifetime Value – how much will you make off of each converted customer This very simple model works for a surprising number of business models.

Metrics 225

Metrics Startup Web 2.0 Slides 225

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In many ways that might be one way to interpret even Facebook where Sheryl stepped in as COO but by all accounts ran much of Facebook for a few years (other than product). He called this initiative VEDO and launched it quietly to some of our bigger customers. It now seems that Mark is more firmly in control.

CTO Hire 309

CTO Hire Organization Google Course 309

socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Jon Ferrara was co-founder of Goldmine software, a huge customer relationship management (CRM) provider which he built into a $100M business in the PC age, and is now working on doing the same thing in the age of the cloud, with another CRM startup, Nimble (www.nimble.com). That allowed us to deliver a scalable solution for our customers.

Startup 113

Startup Canoga Park Email Google 113

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2009

San Diego-based Websense , a developer of web filtering and security products, said yesterday afternoon that the firm has seen "strong cash flow" in the first quarter. The firm said that the growth for the quarter came from its new Web security products, along with growth in the number of the firm's enterprise customers.

San Diego 100

San Diego Web Custom Customer 100

socalTECH

JULY 14, 2009

Calabasas-based Emergent Game Technologies , developer of the Gamebryo LightSpeed game development engine, reports today that it had a 45% increase in earnings during the first half of 2009. Actual financial details of the growth, or customer wins behind that growth, were not disclosed.

Technology 100

Technology Calabasas Software Platform 100