Eric Greenspan

JULY 29, 2010

From a customer service perspective, this can be a great asset to your organization or, if improperly managed, a true nightmare. Carrier pigeon, snail mail, tin cans and string …life was simpler back then, but not nearly as fun!…I’m …I’m on roll here…maybe a TED Talk in the making! Be careful.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2010

In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world in 2010? At a more simple level, what Steve Jobs and the iPad has done, has totally changed how we as a business communicate with our customers. It's the first full year of profitability and 200 percent growth for us.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 30, 2010

Thursday, August 5, 2010 -- CommNexus Presents:Follow the Customer How Marketing Must Adapt to New Markets and New Revenue Opportunities. In order to survive, they often need to shift their strategies and target customer base. As companies evolve the business landscape can change dramatically.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. Great stuff. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 23, 2010

Thursday, April 29, 2010 -- Changing Customer Behavior through Data-Driven Solutions. If you already have a comprehensive marketing strategy, pardon the interruption and proceed as planned. However, if your marketing strategy needs work, were here to help. See [link] (more).

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2010

Local.com said those web hosting customers pay approximately $35 per month for web hosting services, provided by a third party. As part of the deal, Local.com said it also has the option to buy another 10,000 web hosting subscribers during the first quarter of 2010. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 3, 2010

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 -- New Approaches in Customer Engagement. Los Angeles CMO Club Dinner. Come network and share ideas with your peers in a non selling CMO worthy environment in Los Angeles, at this special event. See [link] (more).

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socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2010

Pasadena-based Green Dot , the provider of prepaid credit cards which recently debuted on the markets, reported its quarterly earnings Thursday, saying that the tight financing environment continues to drive new customers to the company. for the three months ended June 30, 2010, up from $3.9M The firm said it had net income of $4.6M

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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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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 15, 2010

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 -- Gaining Passion and Engagement From Your Customers and Organization. Customers no longer just buy products - they purchase the experiences from companyies who engage with them and meet their both spoken and unspoken needs. Techbizconnection.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I obviously don’t have a crystal ball so the economy could fare better than my gut, but here’s why I’m cautious for some time in 2010 or early 2011: Why is the future still so unpredictable? In the following post I argue that this increased pace may be temporary. My advice in my post Should You Even Raise VC still holds.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 24, 2020

1 priority was to ensure long-term financial stability and secure the core team, technology development and customer programs no matter what the scenario, Czinger said, adding that there is still enormous uncertainty surrounding the real impact and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. Divergent 3D has two global OEMs as customers.

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2018

BOth companies provide information technology consulting, including consulting in the areas of networking, security, hardware, and other related areas for enterprise to SMB customers. ISSQUARED said the acquisition is its very first since being founded in 2010. Bala Ramaiah is CEO of ISSQUARED; Steve Marks was CEO of Starnet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

To legally facilitate startups who want to give top priority to socially conscious solutions, thirty-five states, starting with Maryland way back in 2010, have passed legislation allowing incorporation as a Benefit Corporation (B-Corp). Social responsibility opens the door to a broader customer base. Doing business is a human process.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2014

In a world where consumers use texting more than they actually talk to someone on the phone, businesses have been notably slow to communicate via texting with their customers. According to Zingle, its text-messaging "concierge" product, which helps hotels communicate directly with their customers via texting. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 3, 2012

Qualcomm was the lead on the February 2010 round for Visage, whose software is used to manage the security and mobile policy for enterprise customers. According to Visage, the round was led by Motorola Solutions, and also included Palisades Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures and Worldview Technology Partners. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Bounce, formerly known as Metro Bikes, allows customers to rent a scooter for as little as Rs 1 (0.1 Back in 2010, web performance and security company Cloudflare launched on-stage at our Disrupt SF Battlefield. It says Beat Games will join Oculus Studio but will continue to operate independently. cents) per kilometer and Rs 1.5

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Gimbal's technology was used by brands, retailers, advertisers, venues, and out-of-home (OOH) networks to understand the movement of their customers. Gimbal was spun out of Qualcomm in 2014, and had started as a project within Qualcomm in 2010. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

There's a lot out there around Customer Development - read Steve Blank : Entrepreneurship as a Science – The Business Model/Customer Development Stack - Steve Blank , October 25, 2010 Checklists for Chaos, The Path to Success - Steve Blank , October 28, 2010 and reading about Lean, MVPs, etc. is a requirement.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The firm provides edge network services to help deliver content from such customers as Twitter, Pinterest, Sony, and Hulu to end users. The big growth is not the first year of blockbuster growth at the company--the firm said last year that it also doubled its revenues between 2010 and 2011.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 29, 2010

Just about every major event has its own iPhone app and now Lollapalooza is entering the App game for their upcoming concert in Chicago August 6-8, 2010. Just today the partnership was announced with Slacker's Lollapalooza 2010 Radio.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 18, 2010

Some good ones already from May: "Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 Phrases that should be retired include - “Putting customers first” You Actually Did This? Steve Blank , May 6, 2010 Great presentations from Xobni and Dropbox on how they have gone about building their business.

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socalTECH

MAY 1, 2012

Are you a Boingo customer, planning a long flight to Germany anytime soon? Customers of Los Angeles-based Boingo Wireless can now do that--and bill it to their Boingo account--if they're booked on Lufthansa. Lufthansa has been offering in-flight Wi-Fi since December of 2010. Wish you could keep connected to the Internet?

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2016

Pathmatics is led by Gabe Gottlieb, and was founded in 2010. The company's software lets users figure out such things as what specific ads are being run by different advertisers, which ad networks have which customers, who different brands are buying impressions from, and other programmatic ad data. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

Pasadena-based Central Desktop , the developer of cloud-based, business collaboration software, reported today that it had what it described as "record growth" in 2010. According to the firm, it had a 111 percent increase in Enterprise Edition gross bookings in 2010, and also increased its staff by 155 percent during the year.

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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.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2012

Santa Monica-based EdgeCast Networks , the content delivery network (CDN) provider headed by Alex Kazerani, said today that it doubled its annual revenues and headcount in 2011, over its 2010 numbers. EdgeCast said it added more than a thousand customers in 2011, including such sites as DailyMotion, Imgur, and posterous.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Epicor said that Spectrum has approximately 100 employees, over 430 direct customers, and another 1800 customers via OEM relationships. The firm also revealed that Spectrum has projected full-year 2010 revenues of approximately $14M. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

The point of PUCCKA was to develop a common methodology to make sure our whole team approaches sales with the same mindset and to give us a language to talk with each other about our prospects, as in, “have you identified your customers pain point yet?”. The goal is to get the customer speaking about their organization.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

If I Launched a Startup - The Startup Lawyer , March 17, 2010 Great advice on initial steps of setting up a Startup. 9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 You would have met many smart people who live a mediocre life. There are MANY of them. You might be surprised why this is the case.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Andy Vogel: We originally started back in 2010, when Blackstone making investment in companies that weren''t very obviously companies they were going to spin out. We''ve spend the last two years in the lab environment, and have tested it with one large customer, and are now rolling it out to commercial customers. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 23, 2010

Newly announced markets that will see 4G in 2010 are Cincinnati, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Miami, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City and St. The company's customer-focused strategy has led to improved first call resolution and customer care satisfaction scores. For more information, visit www.sprint.com. Industry published 3G avg.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 -- LeanLA December Meetup: Conquering Madison Avenue as a Lean Startup. Battle stories and lessons learned about how Sharethrough, applying the lean startup process, figured out the advertising landscape and customer developed their way into the door of a myriad of Fortune 500 customers. link] (more)

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socalTECH

MARCH 23, 2011

Polycom said Accordent had $9M in revenues in 2010, and has over 1,200 customers. Accordent provides products for streaming live webcasts, webcasting meetings and classes, and similar enterprise video streaming applications. Accordent's 50 employees will remain in Southern California. The firm's CEO and co-founder is Michael C.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

billion in revenues in 2010. Kingston said demand from both corporate customers and consumers was strong. Fountain Valley-based Kingston Technology , the provider of computer memory products, reported today that it has hit a record, $6.5 The firm said the amount is the highest ever in company history, and was a $2.4 READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 -- Social Media Marketing. Having a comprehensive Social Marketing plan is crucial nowadays to keep up with your customers. Whether you are monitoring your brand, driving traffic to your site, providing customer support, or selling a product, Social Marketing is an absolute must. See [link] (more).

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2021

Crosscut Ventures, Mubadala Capital, Next Play Capital and Owl Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the Los Angeles-based company’s total raised to $50 million since its 2010 inception. Big banks rush to back Greenwood, Killer Mike’s Atlanta-based digital bank for underrepresented customers.

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