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OC Technology Influencer Mixer & Summit 2011

Tech Coast Venture Network

April 25, 2011, Irvine, Calif — Tech Coast Venture Network (www.tcvn.org) is hosting the OC Technology Influencer Mixer & Summit 2011, an historic two-day event with partners CompTIA, the world’s largest technology association, the Technology Leadership Political Action Committee and Ingram Micro.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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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). The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. In the US alone there are 30 billion inbound sales calls every year. There are 2.9

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. It will be tough for there to be many huge winners in this category.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

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The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. “COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you.

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The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong

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According to Forrester Research (2011 report) 77% users who abandoned an online purchase cite the inability to speak to some as their primary reason for leaving. Here’s some other things you might find interesting: There are around 20 billion in-bound sales calls in the US each year. Just not to me.

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Mimiboard Replacing Noticeboards in Africa | Interview with Johan Nel Founder

Tech Zulu Event

Then you assign certain categories to it. People could add notes regarding whatever the category selection of the board determines. For example, goods for sale – people add items that are for sale, their contact details, images of the product. Umuntu received funding in September 2011 – the amount was approx.

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How Kaleo Is Tackling Enterprise Knowledge Sharing

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That can be a subject matter expert, product head, a sales head, any category in the enterprise, and they can use our lightweight platform for answers. This was her pain point, back in our early days in 2011, and at that time, social was starting to become big. There were things like Yammer, Jive, and all that.