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JUNE 10, 2013

Pharmaceutical companies spent $20 billion a year marketing their products to medical offices. We spoke with Dan Gilman , President and co-founder of the company, to learn more about the company, it''s market, and why healthcare information technology is such an interesting area for investors. What is RxVantage? READ MORE>>.

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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. Trade Show Guerilla Marketing Done Right . Be Closing, No Posing – The ultimate measure of effective marketing, especially at a startup, is revenue.

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APRIL 23, 2013

Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the developer of predictive analytics software for the marketing industry, has raised a big, $38M funding round, the firm said Monday. MarketShare, which is co-led by Wes Nichols and Jon Vein, said the financing will go towards its technology platform and accelerate growth in markets worldwide.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2011

Even though it has been a long haul, it’s nice to see some optimism surfacing in 2011. Just yesterday, a new study “ The PNC Economic Outlook: Survey of Small & Middle-Market Business Owners ” was published. Respondents cited a greater focus on operating efficiencies as the number one step to achieving growth in 2011.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We caught up with M-GO''s CEO, John Batter , to hear about where M-GO fits into the streaming media market. We saw that platform just before CES in 2011, and since it did about seventy percent of what we envisioned, we put the joint venture together. What''s the story behind M-GO? So, they just ave up. Stay tuned there.

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JULY 29, 2013

Irvine-based Local Corporation is abandoning the daily deals market, saying this morning that it has sold its Spreebird daily deals business to nCrowd. Financial terms of the sale were not announced. Local Corporation said it expects the sale will improve earnings and cash flow for the year by approximately $600,000 a year.

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JUNE 7, 2011

Proving that the market for the right domain name continues to be strong, Moniker and SnapNames , the domain name auction sites owned by Los Angeles-based Oversee.net , reported that they sold the domain Data.com for more than $1.5M Oversee.net said its total private sales from the aftermarket division was more than $11M.

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MARCH 6, 2017

Martell has been COO of the company since 2014, and joined the company in 2011 as CFO. He previously also had served at Western Institutional Review Board, Advantage Sales and Marketing and Information Services Group, Inc, along with ACNielsen Corporation. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

In June of 2011, MySpace was sold for a mere $35M to another, Southern California technology firm-- Specific Media , which has since been looking to remake MySpace with the help of Justin Timberlake. in a $580M deal. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 22, 2016

Purch said the deal would help it expand into the SMB market. domain name sold to startup incubator eCompanies, transformed into a $345M sale to R.H. domain name sold to startup incubator eCompanies, transformed into a $345M sale to R.H. Business.com was headed by Tony Uphoff. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 22, 2013

If you were in sales, you either ran ACT!, and Goldmine faded away, no longer the two kings of the sales CRM world. So far, Nimble has the edge, as the Santa Monica company has been offering up its products to the market since 2011, and Contatta just announced the company and has yet to launch its own software.

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

The layoffs--first reported by PlugInCars--apprently included a "substantial part" of its sales and marketing staff. It looks like Southern California's emerging electric automobile industry has definitively hit the skids, as Santa Monica-based electric auto developer Coda Automotive laid off 50 employees Tuesday. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 7, 2011

Ventures , the Internet marketing firm headed by Ben Padnos , the former founder of BetterPPC, said today that it has received a trial date in its lawsuit against NBC Universal. James Otero has set a trial date of December 13, 2011. Los Angeles-based DONE! Ventures said that Judge S.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Thursday, September 15, 2011 -- Business Apps Reign King Thinking Beyond the Browser. Marketing and Sales Executives Society. Your sales team is also becoming app-centric. The new web is here. And it's dramatically different from the browser-based web we all know and love. See [link] (more)

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

It's a new world out there for online marketers--users aren't just on their PC anymore, they're surfing the web, buying products, and using services across their tablet(s), desktops, and smartphone. So, how do marketers figure out if you're the same person to better target their ads? READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

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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DECEMBER 27, 2011

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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JULY 26, 2012

Impinj said the funding will go towards sales, marketing, product development, and manufacturing operations. The firm had filed for an IPO in April 2011. The firm no longer lists a location in Newport Beach, where it was originally based.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 9, 2011

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 -- Innovating a Traditional B2B Company. Innovate or die is a common motto of business  especially when the market has matured to a point where the services are seen as a commodity and annual competitive bids are standard practice. San Diego MIT Forum. See [link] (more)

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Eric Greenspan

JULY 3, 2012

From a marketing partnership with Verizon, to producing our own radio shows on CBS and ABC and finally, a Costco rollout; the company’s management worked tirelessly to find solutions to maintaining growth and profitability, critical components of any business. In May of 2012, sales dropped drastically.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2011

Wednesday, June 15, 2011 -- Using Desire and Emotion to Create Better Products. These relationships drive sales, create loyalty and inspire consumers to tell their friends. These relationships drive sales, create loyalty and inspire consumers to tell their friends. In todays marketplace the bar has been raised.

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

I started announcing my Twitter thesis back in 2011 (still serves as a useful read today). ” How can businesses not incorporate information into their marketing and sales funnels? Pier who has built a world-class sales organization and processes. Social Media Tech Market Analysis' ” What gives?

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Cypress, California-based Universal Electronics , a manufacturer of infrared wireless control systems for the home entertainment market, said today that it has acquired Enson Assets Limited , a Chinese firm owned by CG International Holdings Limited. The deal was worth $110M. Enson is a manufacturer of remote controls for OEMs.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 -- Is Social Media Killing Email. Presented by the Marketing and Sales Executives Society. Youve seen the headlines: 9 Reasons Why Email is Dead. With the seemingly endless reports about the death of email, its no wonder that the commonly-held myth of decreased email usage exists.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

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. The market response model is an analytical model, which quantifies how markets respond to stimuli. Did the TV stimulate search?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 10, 2011

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 -- Virtual Events: Selling More by Spending Less. TCOSC Marketing and Sales Executive Society. Customer and prospect events can be risky, with the cost of staging the event often exceeding the revenue generated.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. I can’t control the market. Private markets for stocks are the opposite.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

.&# That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. As a market we seem to be incapable of temperance. And 18 months later, in May 2011, I have crossed 422,000 views. Just like a sales person at the end of a quarter. It’s marketing. If you were reading the headlines from only 2.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

The timing of an IPO is driven heavily by the state of the economy in general and the stock market in particular, in concert with your profitability. The market is moving back up, but slowly. If it’s not enough, don’t do it. How’s the timing? In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. Who are your competitors – how much do they charge?&#.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

When tickets went on sale over a month ago, we expected the regular ticket sales cycle, however we were more than surprised when Startup Weekend LA sold out in 6 hours! That’s right… just about the same amount of time it takes to sell out a Radiohead show at the Forum.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

He left traditional media at the top of his game to be the founding CEO of Next New Networks, one of the first digital video startups, backed by Spark Capital and bought by YouTube in 2011. The obvious slight he made that went largely unnoticed was the lack of Latino representation and it’s a big freaking market gap that is set to explode.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

From a marketing partnership with Verizon, to producing our own radio shows on CBS and ABC and finally, a Costco rollout; the company’s management worked tirelessly to find solutions to maintaining growth and profitability, critical components of any business. In May of 2012, sales dropped drastically. We sought capital just in case.

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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. Nascent startup markets are like fine wine, they take time to develop.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Nimble's software connects to your email, social accounts, and more, and helps you track your customers, sales prospects, sales pipeline, and much much more. Microsoft didn't have a network OS, until Novell built a market for it, and ate Novell with NT Server. They now dominate the market. That brings us to Microsoft.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 6, 2011

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 -- Content World Turned Upside Down: Can Traditional Media Adapt? Vice President, Global Digital Strategy and Operations, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment; Scott Brovsky, Director, Global Marketing, Disney Interactive Studios; Eric Garland, CEO, Big Champagne; Richard Neff, President, Neff Law Firm.

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