socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

We also work with companies doing measurement of marketing campaigns and store visits. We started out as a social media app developer in 2010, which gave us an opportunity to figure out how a powerful and rich data set would allow us to mine the interests and consumer behavior out of mobile signals. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 12, 2010

BookRenter – plus a discussion about Chegg … what is going on in the university book market? We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues].

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

We had gone our ways, and after we left UpSellit and were golfing, we decided that instead of being part of a lifestyle business we wanted to start our own, and help local businesses market themselves. We actually know a lot about this, since we started in 2010 as a QR-code based, loyalty program. We're also funding it out of pocket.

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MARCH 20, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

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MARCH 9, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

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MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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MARCH 20, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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MARCH 1, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

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MARCH 20, 2007

Whats interesting is that Ive been seeing opportunities to use social marketing for businesses that typically target Time Poor audiences. I also read - The Difference Between Apple and Microsoft Marketing that tells us: Apples marketing is designed for Time Poor buyers, while Microsofts is designed for Time Rich buyers.

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MARCH 12, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

One of the things that Greg Forgatch (the original CEO) should be credited with was testing many different marketing approaches until he found the ones that worked. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Still it was gratifying to hear the numbers.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

As I look at more and more start-ups predicated on viral growth, and at the use of social marketing, its becoming simultaneously easier to understand some aspects of viral growth and still a gap in understanding whats going to be that "hook" that will grab people at the end of the day. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

We need venture debt, factoring companies and public markets. There is no way for people to keep prices down – it’s a competitive market. The only solution as an investor is to sit the market out as Chris Sacca said he’s inclined to do. In public investing you can get in and out even in a bull market.

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MARCH 6, 2015

I began asking around who the likely investors were for such a market. “There was no real framework for a $15 million fund at the time so I had to make one up … it was really sort of an experiment … I invested across Funds I & II in 90 companies” Jeff then raised $55 million in 2010 and $85 million in 2014.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

Microsoft found this out when their market capitalization, once at $560B, had fallen in 2010 to $219B, allowing them to be passed by Apple, who grew from $15.6B Both had access to the same technology, people, and market. Apple has been able to innovate at an amazing pace to define and meet new market opportunities.

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MARCH 5, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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MARCH 16, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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FEBRUARY 23, 2007

And there are definitely other service providers who provide things like marketing services who are interesting, so its not all service providers, its more like the wealth management types. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. You know what I mean.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Cody Simms: Ultimately, our mission is to be the best, global ecosystem for bringing new technology to market. One could argue that in 2010, 2011, and 2012, that growth was in the video and entertainment area. Sometimes entrepreneurs ask if we need certain metrics and traction�you don't. Have you shown progress moving forward.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Conventional Wisdom dictated that the proliferation of unauthorized recordings would supplant the market for concert tickets and commercial releases. Never consider size metrics, such as headcount and square feet of office space, as measures of your venture’s success.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

a few days before the wheels came off of the market). We were immediately thrust into a globally competitive market for B2B collaboration tools. But the stock market continued to tank and one of our investors who had committed $12 million pulled out. So no prizes for guessing my New Year’s resolution for 2010.

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MARCH 22, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

Startups consistently identify more ideas and opportunities than they have the time or resources to pursue, such as potential partnerships, new products, entering emerging markets, etc. Evaluate each of the following metrics on a scale of 1 – 10. A Mac-compatible version of GoToMyPC was not released until 2010.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I think we've got a great team, with the right product, at the right time in the market. The second part, is we wanted higher level integration with the bigger players in the market, what I call the established medical oligopolies, so we can tie into bigger systems. What will that funding go towards--it was a Series D? READ MORE>>

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

What I mean by that, is many times, when marketing departments are releasing a film, they release a few teaser scenes. A few companies have aggregated all of that free media out there from those marketing materials. Our metrics show that when people watch chips, they increase their tendency to want to watch that feature length film.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

We provide traffic analytics, cross-tabulated across demographics, A/B testing to see how an audience is using certain pages, and engagement metrics. It seems like this market initially had a lot of individual developers just playing around with the APIs. We'll do a rev share with those platforms. Do you see more serious companies now?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

We provide traffic analytics, cross-tabulated across demographics, A/B testing to see how an audience is using certain pages, and engagement metrics. It seems like this market initially had a lot of individual developers just playing around with the APIs. We'll do a rev share with those platforms. Do you see more serious companies now?

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