Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So mostly we just had to listen to customer feedback from founders, VCs and LPs. And all the platform stuff. Just as Yves mentored me when I became his co-managing partner in 2011, he didn’t seek to ride off into the sunset either. Kara is a natural leader and loves taking ownership of tasks and over-performing.

Venture Capital 361

Venture Capital Startup Invest CitySearch 361

SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Wednesday, December 7, 2011 -- Developing and Publishing Freetoplay MMOs: From A to Z. Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds. Abstract: The Freetoplay model has taken the gaming world by storm.

Develop 100

Develop Development Email Organization 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Those services work on volume, and the designs you can send--and which you receive--are from a limited selection, not at all personalized to the recipient, and for the florist delivering the flowers, provides slim margins and no opportunity to build a customer base. Farbod Shoraka: We started out in the summer of 2011.

Beverly Hills 157

Beverly Hills Technical Review Design Startup 157

InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2014

In addition, marketers have traditionally lacked adequate visibility into the customer''s experience, making it impossible to associate a user''s online experience with their offline call. The growth in mobile as an advertising platform is driving more consumer-to-businesses calls than ever before.

Company 200

Company Companies Mobile Advertising 200

socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2009

According to the firm--which is traded OTC--the restricted common stock investment by Guthy-Renker also came with an extension of an agreement the two companies have until June 2011. READ MORE>>.

Commerce 100

Commerce Invest Equity Los Angeles 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Yammer Case Study Study 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Yammer 104

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 9, 2014

Last Monday, Jan 6th, marked the culmination of AT&T’s Developer Summit at CES 2014 along with the release of open APIs for its U-Verse platform on Android. The company launched the original program back in 2011. When U-Verse customers use our interactive apps, they’re more engaged and more satisfied with their experience.

Develop 72

Develop Development Mobile Entertainment 72

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Teens fueled that growth when in 2011 12% of teens reported using Twitter. Don’t connect the latest platform, which may be transient, with the larger phenomenon of digitally enabled social conversations. If you can figure out why people care about your product, you’ll have success regardless of the platform du jour.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media Marketing Platform 100

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

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

In April 2011, the Association of Coupon Professionals held an Industry Conference in Atlanta to address the present and future state of couponing. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms. Paul Breummer, Search Engine Land. A study conducted by Rice University’s Jesse H.

Mobile 85

Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Ian Miller: FatCloud is a data management and software platform company with a NoSQL database. It''s a distributed data platform built for scale, and build for accelerated application development. That system was launched as its own, separate company in late 2011. What exactly is FatCloud? What is your background?

Startup 198

Startup Yahoo Software Education 198

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

He's now hard at work at a new company, Kaleo, which is tackling the enterprise, knowledge sharing market�and already has an impressive list of Fortune 500 customers. 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.

El Segundo 169

El Segundo Southern California Startup CTO Hire 169

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments.

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

We give way 500Mb of free data to all of our users, and users can also early additional, free minutes for connecting to their friends on the platform and participating on partner offers and promotions. Our customer support is in-house, and we have a light-touch customer support model, and we don't have to manage a massive network.

Startup 245

Startup IP Networking Encino 245

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In 2011 Hello Music became the fastest growing musician-focused company in the U.S We have 100,000 customers walking through the doors of our service every single day, and we are laser-focused on bringing them the very best opportunities.” ” Hello Music has successfully created a new ecosystem and platform for musicians.

Los Angeles 64

Los Angeles Platform Media Activity 64

socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2015

crackdown on illegal online gambling and online poker back in 2011. A consumer comes into the platform, puts some money on deposit, and they can play games--any games--it could be a match three game, it could be a solitaire game, it could be fast, quick games, puzzle hunts, there are many. We''re merging those two together. population.

Platform 100

Platform Develop Development Mobile 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

What kinds of customers are using your service? Daniel Scalisi: We've got many nationally recognized organizations, including the Children's Miracle Network, the National Breast Cancer Association, the Humane Society, which are just a few of our customers. We've gotten over 80 paying customers in our five months we've been deployed.

Mobile 162

Mobile Web Startup Customer 162

socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2013

Dan Gilman: We provide a cloud-based platform for medical practices to more efficiently coordinate and communicate with representatives, from pharmaceutical and other medical companies who are calling on their practice. The size of the market and the spending there was appealing, and also the fact that we already had customers.

Marketing 231

Marketing Software Education Startup 231

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2014

After you claim your identity with placeholder domain names, accounts in social networks, and common blogging platforms, your next challenge is to create enough positive content as a “Google wall” to keep negative info out of the top Google search results.

Blogging 99

Blogging Content Google Sites 99

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer 2011 Judges! a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. wonder what that might be?

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. Rinse & repeat. It seemed to be purely speculative. I was a victim of this kind of thinking.

Development Team Review 374

Development Team Review Technical Review Startup Resource 374

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

ZunguZ is a global social payment platform that integrates deeply into the social graph of Facebook and financial service providers. We may keep the platform with the name ZunguZ and look for a client facing name for the application. TechZulu caught up Robert Sussman, Co-CEO of Zunguz , the Facebook payment app. What is Zunguz?

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. In 2011 the company was sold to Nordstrom for $270 million in a deal that has been widely seen as a success for both buyer and seller.

Venture Capital 360

Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

InfoChachkie

JULY 30, 2012

I always enjoy a great guerilla marketing story, such as TestFlight’s use of T-shirts and Tacos to gain Steve Jobs’ attention at Apple’s 2011 developers’ conference. Central Desktop’s angel was amusing without alienating potential customers. This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE. Be unafraid but use sound judgment.

Marketing 209

Marketing Conference RSS Angel 209

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

Cloud-based business transactions platform, CapLinked ,today announced additional investors and the final results of its Series A financing round totaling to $2.1 Based in LA, and launched in 2011 by Eric M. Speaking of the new investment, CapLinked CEO Eric M. New Clients To Manage Complex Business Transactions. Easy To Set Up.

Draper 68

Draper Google Software Engineering Invest 68

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Event Details. to 10:30 p.m.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

It’s payments API allows platforms and marketplaces to accept payments for their customers without pre-existing merchant accounts. BusinessWeek named Bill and Rich two of the Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs of 2011. We offer users live customer support from representatives here in Palo Alto via chat, phone and email.

Startup 71

Startup Tool Capital Customer 71

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

Founded in 2011, Z Supply, LLC has created five women’s fashion brands with a sixth brand and extension into Men’s, launching Spring 2017. I ended up really relating to the nuance and intricacies of product supply and customer demand. Secondly, eCommerce is a powerful marketing platform for us.

Sites 100

Sites Sales Santa Barbara Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Social analytics and personalization platform GraphDive has closed $2 million in its first ever equity round from Crosslink Capital, Correlation Ventures, Plug & Play Tech Center, Start Capital and angel investors Pejman Nozad, Ullas Naik and Scott Banister. $2 2 million equity round.

Equity 65

Equity Social Media Google Tool 65

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall 2011 Judges! A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m. RSVP: AGENDA.

Tech Coast Angels 96

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2012

Kian Saneii: What we have is a platform that helps all sorts of channel partners, including family members, assisted living facilities, home care and home health providers, and even insurance companies, help the elderly to stay home longer and more comfortably. We spoke with CEO Kian Saneii to learn more about the firm. READ MORE>>.

Software Review 140

Software Review Cloud Computing Startup Technical Review 140

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

May 4, 2011 was the official launch date). We are a logistics platform that enables three things: 1. Businesses delivering their products & goods to their customers. They can also review past deliveries the courier has done, and any comments past customers have left them. A few months later, Zipments was born.

Los Angeles 79

Los Angeles Angel Examples Mobile 79

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. They hit the coveted one million user milestone and within two years a billion tweets had been sent on the platform. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. It had strong platform usage.

Platform 40

Platform Startup News Content 40

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Recycling Waste Platform. 28 year old Allison Carmen’s Material Mix began operations in June and she says its helping waste and recycling professionals reduce operating expenses and recover investment on inventory via a dynamic, web-based, customer regulated exchange platform with supply chain management tools.

San Diego 55

San Diego Education Platform Web 55

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

By using SteelHouse, ecommerce sites can use live data to instantly respond to a customer’s wants and needs for stronger transaction values, increased conversion rates, and an overall better customer experience. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award.

Startup 111

Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2011

Webdoc is a web platform that allows you to easily create interactive posts mixing different web contents through a simple and intuitive drag & drop interface. In terms of products, we are constantly releasing cool new product features for our web platform. Give Us the Fast Pitch. What is the market opportunity?

Startup 97

Startup Web Content Media 97