IEEE 2011 Energy Efficiency Symposium
SoCal Tech Calendar
OCTOBER 21, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011 -- IEEE 2011 Energy Efficiency Symposium. Keynote speaker Dr. David Auston, Exec. Learn how to pitch to investor groups.See [link] (more)
The Changing Venture Landscape
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. dot-com bonanza. Ten years on much has changed.
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Orange County Product Managers
SoCal Tech Calendar
MARCH 24, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 -- "Profitability by Customer Experience: Lessons about Different and Better from the Best" Dr. Joely Gardner, Jeofrey Bean and Sean Van Tyne will make their OCPM debut this month at JT Schmid's in Tustin.
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Using Desire and Emotion to Create Better Products
SoCal Tech Calendar
JUNE 9, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 -- Using Desire and Emotion to Create Better Products. Today, the most successful products and brands go beyond satisfying needs, they create deeply meaningful relationship with customer. In todays marketplace the bar has been raised. See [link] (more)
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How Snapchat Could Increase Team Production
Tech.Co
JULY 31, 2017
Being intentionally productive is something we all strive for, but often fail to achieve. While back in 2011, a cell phone user received or made 12 phone calls a day on average, the number has dropped to just 6 calls in 2015. Videos offer a human connection, are efficient and do not interrupt the customer in the middle of something.
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Contatta Funding Puts ACT!, Goldmine Founders Head To Head Again
socalTECH
JULY 22, 2013
Once upon a time, when the desktop PC was king, there were two kingdoms in the world of customer relationship management: ACT! The new startup goes head to head against Ferrara''s startup, Nimble , which has been looking to reinvent customer relationship management for the Internet and social age for a few years now. READ MORE>>.
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E-commerce’s Changing Landscape | Customization
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 29, 2011
As customers shift online, retailers have no choice, to not only follow suit, but to adapt to their changing demands. Rather, the online store is a speed machine built not on being soothed into what we need, but rather on the features and use of the product on it’s own.
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Kingston Digital Acquires IronKey
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
IronKey, which develops encrypted USB flash drives, has been part of Imation since 2011. Kingston Digital, the flash memory arm of Kingston Technology, said the acquisition will help it provide a more comprehensive portfolio of products and services to its customers. READ MORE>>.
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Augmented Reality Event (ARE), May 17-18, 2011.
Tech Zulu Event
MAY 2, 2011
The 2011 ARE is bound to go above and beyond last year’s event. If you are an AR Enthusiast – you will feel like a kid in a candy store at ARE 2011. Dates: May 17-18, 2011. ARE 2011 Sponsors: Qualcomm , Occipital , and Ogmento. For a complete list of confirmed business talk speakers visit the website at: [link].
E-commerce’s changing Landscape: Customization
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 26, 2011
As customers shift online, retailers have no choice, to not only follow suit, but to adapt to their changing demands. Rather, the online store is a speed machine built not on being soothed into what we need, but rather on the features and use of the product on it’s own.
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Broadcom Targets Android Market
socalTECH
DECEMBER 14, 2010
Irvine-based semiconductor maker Broadcom said today, among a number of product announcements, that it has rolled out a new platform targeted at the Android smart phone market. Broadcom said the new chip is sampling now to early access customers, with first commercial launches expected in Q1 of 2011. READ MORE>>.
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191 Thinking Beyond the Browser
SoCal Tech Calendar
SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011 -- Business Apps Reign King Thinking Beyond the Browser. Your customers are skipping the url and using apps for business. Learn how Mike Colombo, Partner and CEO, Partner at MAARK is helping his biggest B2B clients think beyond the browser and win the race for customers and sales productivity.
How Zadara Is Putting The Enterprise In The Storage Cloud
socalTECH
JULY 7, 2014
We caught up with Nelson Nahum , a longtime storage industry veteran and CEO of the company, to learn where Zadara fits and how it''s helping to move enterprise customers to the cloud. Explain what Zadara''s products are about? Speaking of the enterprise, where are those enterprise customers in trusting the cloud?
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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 25, 2011
There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. But it might not.
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Creating Raving Fans
SoCal Tech Calendar
MARCH 12, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011 -- Customer Loyalty: Creating "Raving Fans" San Diego Software Industry Council. This workshop will go through each of the 7 steps for taking a suspect (someone you suspect would be interested in your product or services) to Raving Fan (someone that does proactive selling for you).
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113 Kyocera Wireless Sells Indian Operations
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
The deal is worth $6M in upfront payments, plus payments linked to revenue in 2010/2011, and 2011/2012. employs approximately 600, who provide wireless product development, software engineering, and product testing for Kyocera Wireless, and also develops custom handsets for Indian service providers.
Virtual Events: Selling More by Spending Less
SoCal Tech Calendar
MARCH 10, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 -- Virtual Events: Selling More by Spending Less. Customer and prospect events can be risky, with the cost of staging the event often exceeding the revenue generated. TCOSC Marketing and Sales Executive Society. Speaker: Steve Gogolak, Executive Director of Media and Webcasting, Cramer. See [link] (more)
Trademarks, Copyrights and Domain Names
SoCal Tech Calendar
APRIL 12, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011 -- What's in a Name? Choosing the name for your company and its products is a critical step in any business. They clearly distinguish your products from those of your competitors. They are instantly recognizable by your customers. They are instantly recognizable by your customers.
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Developing and Publishing Freetoplay MMOs
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.
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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 30, 2011
The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. Rinse & repeat. It takes options off of the table. You have a hunch.
Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 26, 2020
So mostly we just had to listen to customer feedback from founders, VCs and LPs. Marketing, recruiting, building data products & tools, event management, analyzing the portfolio, etc. 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.
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How Kaleo Is Tackling Enterprise Knowledge Sharing
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. We're trying to save companies money, and increase the productivity of employees. The idea of waiting, asking, and waiting for answers is gone.
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How ChowNow Delivers Mobile Orders For Restaurants, With Christopher Webb
socalTECH
JANUARY 17, 2013
spent 2011 raising our seed round, which we used to build our team.and launched the product into beta about a year ago, at the end of 2011. We then spent the first half of 2012 beta testing the product, getting feedback and input to the point where we could start selling it. Are people using the product now?
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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 14, 2014
In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. People don’t want to speak to customer service reps. I don’t want to speak to customer service reps!!
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Content, Commerce, and Cosmetics: A Look At IPSY's Subscription Business
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
One of the companies at that intersection of video and e-commerce is IPSY (www.ipsy.com), a subscription beauty products company which uses video as a core piece of its monthly beauty products business. It was cofounded by Michele phan in November of 2011. What is IPSY? IPSY comes from the Latin, ipsa, which means self.
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CyberDefender Gains $2M From Guthy-Renker
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>>.
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Interview with Jon Ferrara on Nimble, The Microsoft Accelerator, And The Cloud
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.
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8 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Lead With New Work Models
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.
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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 27, 2011
While Google and Facebook will buy “acquihires” (at least as of Dec 2011), many acquirers hate the idea of buying companies that aren’t profitable. They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million. ” The Details.
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418 Interview with Simon Anderson, DreamHost
socalTECH
DECEMBER 12, 2013
We''re very much a global footprint company, and we have customers from all over the world who fit that type of description. Right now, we have around 380,000 customers, with about a third of those outside the United States. I was hired back in the middle of 2011, and have now been ceo for about two and a half years.
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238 An Enchanting Conversation With Guy Kawasaki
InfoChachkie
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
Guy’s latest book, Enchantment , was released in March of 2011, to overwhelmingly upbeat reviews. Of the 225 customer reviews currently posted on Amazon, over 90% are highly positive. An entrepreneur, in particular, has to be likeable and trustworthy AND have a great product. That doesn’t work.”.
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How FatCloud Is Bringing NoSQL To The World of Microsoft
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 22, 2013
That company had done a number of very large products for clients like Yahoo and CBS. That system was launched as its own, separate company in late 2011. You can both export between our product, FatDB, and Microsoft SQL server, and we also support two-way, real time synchornizing of data.
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Entrepreneurs And Startups Drive Future Work Trends
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.
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The Old Ways Of Social Media Marketing Are Broken
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 30, 2013
Teens fueled that growth when in 2011 12% of teens reported using Twitter. Brands need influencers working on their behalf because they provide the third-party credibility and social proof that validates their products. If you can figure out why people care about your product, you’ll have success regardless of the platform du jour.
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100 BloomNation's Goal To Empower Your Local Florist, And Improve Flower Delivery
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. READ MORE>>.
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How PolarPro's Photo Filters Are Riding The GoPro Wave
socalTECH
JUNE 19, 2014
Jeff Overall: It all started back in 2011, when I was going to the University of Santa Barbara. How did you go from those prototypes to a real product and manufacturing? So, I started reaching out to the stores that were carrying GoPros, and as you might expect, all of the big companies were hesitant about the product.
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How RxVantage's IT Software Aims To Automate A $20B Market
socalTECH
JUNE 10, 2013
Pharmaceutical companies spent $20 billion a year marketing their products to medical offices. Those representatives help educate providers on products, and deliver value to those offices. We came out in 2008, and raised a convertible round from Slater, and did a Series A round from Javelin Ventures at the end of 2011.
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231 Apple Patent Trial Goes to Jury | Why Fight When You Can License
Tech Zulu Event
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
Filed by California inventor Richard Ditzik in 2011, the lawsuit asserts that Apple’s iPhone 4 infringes on Ditzik’s patent 7,103,380, “Wireless handset communications system” The patent, filed in 1997, claims in part a handset device that sends email and communicates with multiple networks at varying power levels.
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82 8 Questions to Help Decide if You Should be Raising Money Now
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
When you see evidence that there is this so called “product / market fit&# then you may be ready for larger amounts of capital. I think many entrepreneurs under-estimate the benefit that capital early helps in being able to produce product and differentiate yourself in a nascent marketplace. They evolve the product faster.
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Yelp Acquires SeatMe For About $12.7 Million
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 18, 2013
The deal will see Yelp connect more restaurants and bars to customers through online bookings. According to Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp co-founder and chief executive officer,”I am excited to welcome SeatMe’s employees and customers to Yelp. SeatMe has developed a truly compelling product for restaurants and bars of any size.”
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Selling Online In 2016 For The First Time – What Works When You Have A Blank Slate?
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. That being said, we were getting inundated with inquiries regarding where to find our product.
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100 Startups Are A Remix
InfoChachkie
OCTOBER 3, 2011
Filmmaker Kirby Ferguson has created a collection of short films which beautifully underscore Mr. Jobs’ definition of creativity (the term beautiful is appropriate here, as the production values are sweet). Collaboration – Share your results, data, customer feedback, fans, etc. smaller, faster, cheaper, lighter, etc.) You be the judge.
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255 Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles
Tech Zulu Event
JUNE 17, 2011
So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer 2011 Judges! Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of July 4th, 2011. Their all new all electric car is set to be released for sale in limited quantities at the end of 2011. When: Thursday, July 14th, 2011 – 6:00 p.m. Event Details.
The Future of Couponing | How Social-Local-Mobile has Changed the Game
Tech Zulu Event
JANUARY 19, 2012
“The object is to exploit the convergence of people, information, products, services and places with today’s smartphones and tablets, which drive online orders in addition to purchases from brick-and-mortar stores.”. This nationwide initiative was just launched and will undergo testing during the 2011 Holiday Season. “A
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