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JANUARY 20, 2015

McManamy has been Senior Counsel and Assistant General Counsel at Guidance Software since 2009. The company said McManamy''s new role has him leading the company''s e-discovery marketing and sales efforts. READ MORE>>. guidance software forensics ediscovery executive president'

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JANUARY 14, 2013

The firm said the funding came from Bessemer Venture Partners and DAG Ventures, and will go towards sales and marketing. Convertro develops a non-cookie-based tracking technology that helps marketers better track and analyze their customers, and helps to better target and optimize ad campaigns. The firm is based in Santa Monica.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the publisher of real-time automotive pricing information headed by Scott Painter, said yesterday afternoon that it has appointed Todd Daum as Chief Marketing Officer. Automoti.com was sold to Hertz in 2009. Daum joins TrueCar from Automoti.com, where he was Chief Operating Officer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2020

What you probably don’t realize is that the term disruptive brings its own set of baggage, implying to investors extra high risk, high market building costs, and a long slow ramp before payback. De Beers produced industrial diamonds, but found a market as well in engagement rings. Focus on a large opportunity in a low-growth market.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2014

The company--which develops software-as-a-service which helps local businesses manage scheduling, staff management, point of sale, ecommerce, marketing, and more--said the funding came from Bessemer Venture Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, Catalyst Investors, W Capital Partners and Montreux Equity Partners.

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JULY 31, 2013

It is YouTube marketing at its best. Years before Hello Flo’s “The Camp Gyno” video existed, in 2009, Orabrush, a tongue cleaner company, was setting the precedent for what would be how to make a million dollars in ecommerce sales utilizing YouTube marketing. Here is a YouTube marketing case study they did.

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Frank Addante

APRIL 9, 2013

Not at all, a direct sales force is the most expensive channel to take a product to market. To sell enterprise software, sales employees are trained to sell through channels. Then, enterprise sales managers assemble pricing rules to ensure their pricing integrity is protected and all channels have a level playing field.

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MARCH 31, 2010

Irvine-based WebVisible , the provider of local online marketing services to small and mid-sized businesses, said today that it has big hiring plans, and is looking to hire 50 people for sales positions at the firm. Tags: webvisible employment jobs hiring sales local earch. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 23, 2010

Santa Ana-based CoreLogic , a provider of consumer, financial and property information, analytics and services to the real estate, mortgage, and other markets, said this morning that it has soled its Employer Services and Litigation Support business to private equity firm Symphony Technology Group (STG). The deal was worth $265M in cash.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Despite the gain, the growth rate is well below the double digit gains e-commerce was seeing up until Q3 of 2008, when e-commerce sales dropped to single digits and eventually turned negative in 2009. comScore said the growth was "encouraging" but that the firm remains "cautiously optimistic".

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MARCH 1, 2010

The firm says that it's been seeing lots of customer and sales growth, and is hiring across the board to grow faster. Garcia said the company is looking for employees across sales, marketing, support, client services and development. The firm had only 18 employees in January of 2009.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

While many of my friends bragged about their 5 condos in Florida I kept talking about how the real estate market was in a bubble – their gains an illusion. above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. “Yeah, but there is a shortage of supply.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

AMREL Power is a provider of direct current (DC) power supplies and loads for the automated test equipment market. AMTEK said that its Electronic Instruments Group has 2009 sales of $1.1 AMETEK said that AMREL Power will become part of its San Diego-based Programmable Power Division.

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OCTOBER 13, 2010

San Diego-based Sorenson Media , which develops video encoding and decoding software, said today that it has promoted its Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, Eric Quanstrom, to Chief Operating Officer (COO). Quanstrom joined Sorenson Media in May of 2009, at was previously at SightSpeed. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 23, 2009

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 -- Social Networking as a Business Strategy. LinkedIn Group's Sales and Marketing Professionals Promoting HighTech and Technology in Los Angeles invites you to the first group's networking reception and conference of the group.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Gaston has been at uSamp since 2009, and previously was at Greenfield Online, Yankelovich Partners, and NFO. The company explained it has recently doubled the size of its sales force due to the growth it has been seeing. Tags: sample united research market sampling panel executive usamp. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 19, 2010

Valeant said the Brazilian firm has annual sales of approximately $19M in 2009, mainly in the dermatology business. Valeant said the buy will advance its dermatolog presence in the Brazilian market. In a related move, Valeant said it will acquire a 165,000 square foot manufacturing plant in Brazil for approximately $28M.

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APRIL 12, 2010

The new funding will go towards developing and launching new value-added services, expand its network, and for sales and marketing. EdgeCast said it reached profitability in Q4 of 2009, and according to Anthony Citrano, VP of Communications at the firm, the new round is a true growth round.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 4, 2009

Friday, April 10, 2009 -- To Twitter or Not to Twitter. SDSIC Sales and Marketing BIG. Learn the 7 common marketing mistakes on Twitter  as well as how it can be a great free marketing tool for small businesses. What you dont know about Twitter could hurt your business! See [link] (more).

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 -- Strategy to Execution in These Trying Times Speaker: Barbara Nelson from Pragmatic Marketing Good strategy helps you filter out bad tactics so you can focus on whats most important to your long-term viability in the market. See [link] (more).

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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). It’s why opt-in marketing databases can be so incredibly valuable for companies like Gilt Groupe, One King’s Lane and AdoreMe. Calls are changing but not dying.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 -- MOTM Orange County. Our speaker will be Kurt Daradics, co-founder of MOTM, who will be sharing about his experience winning third place at TechCrunch50 in Sept 2009. Paul Mobley leads the first Meeting of the Minds in Orange County. See [link] (more).

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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MAY 15, 2009

Irvine-based VIZIO , a manufacturer of HDTV and other consumer electronics, said this week that it has opened up a new Sales and Marketing center in North Sioux City, South Dakota. The firm said the new call center facility will provide customer support and direct sales.

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MAY 19, 2010

Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Time will tell.

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AUGUST 21, 2011

That strikes me as an attractive market for disruption over time. Nordstrom sales reps are trained to do this to, but of course they can’t know every customer that walks around the store. If you’re less familiar with this market please check out this short video RingRevenue made on the market. Or can they?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Thursday, November 12, 2009 -- Use the Virtual World to Get Real Customers. Youve lost faith in the traditional marketing channels. Online video and virtual environments can help marketers boost their pipeline and connect with their prospects and customers in a cost-effective way. Your customers arent spending.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

The authors recommend, and I support, the establishment of a transformation advisory board, including key board members, the CEO, and a couple of outside experts who understand the market, to set mandates, define milestones, and make funding decisions. They grew sales by 28% in 2009, while most companies were hunkered down and losing share.

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APRIL 22, 2009

The announcement came as the firm reported first quarter 2009 sales of $440.3M, down from $451.8M The firm said that it had a sales decrease due to contracting commercial markets and the global recession. in the same period last year.

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JULY 10, 2017

Tim Grace , who co-founded San Diego-based PointPredictive with Frank McKenna and Joe Jackson, is a startup veteran, who sold BasePoint Analytics to CoreLogic in 2009, and is a former executive from HNC Software. We talked with Tim about how they're now applying this to a new market. What is PointPredictive? Why is that?

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MARCH 16, 2009

The firm said the new funding will be used for sales and marketing activities, ongoing clinical studies, research and development, as well as for general working capital. The firm said the financing may fund its operations through at least 2009. Source of the funding was not disclosed.

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JUNE 25, 2015

I asked him about his thought process because Jason has already built a very successful business that has become the clear market leader in Marketing Automation for Phone Calls. When we first funded the company in 2009 we knew there was a big opportunity to help businesses automate marketing through phone channels.

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MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. It turns out it actually takes time to build a high-growth business with differentiated intellectual property and roll out large, enterprise-class marketing solutions. 5 years ago. 5 years ago.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Nimble's software connects to your email, social accounts, and more, and helps you track your customers, sales prospects, sales pipeline, and much much more. Microsoft didn't have a network OS, until Novell built a market for it, and ate Novell with NT Server. They now dominate the market. That brings us to Microsoft.

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APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. But at the highest level they’ve created a marketplace for “flash&# sales. And of course we had, TheMan.

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APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. Who are your competitors – how much do they charge?&#.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Thursday, November 19, 2009 -- Competing With Free: Can Digital Distribution Reduce Piracy? New digital distribution channels have raised a host of questions the television, movie, and music industries: To what degree will these channels cannibalize sales in higher margin physical channels? Email cornejo@marshall.usc.edu.

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