article thumbnail

Make It Work- the real story

InfoChachkie

From 2008 to 2011, the company paid its own bills, we were cash flow positive and we believed we could maintain this trend indefinitely. But later in 2011, new customers slowed, appointment bookings slowed and average appointment time dropped. In May of 2012, sales dropped drastically. We sought capital just in case. Of course).

RSS 170
article thumbnail

Trade Show Guerilla Marketing – Booth Babes With Beards

InfoChachkie

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. For instance, a senior executive from a major media agency, who did not attend the show, was prompted by a bearded-booth-babe tweet to contact the company’s VP of Sales.

Marketing 209
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

. - 500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents? (..)

Startup 378
article thumbnail

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS. Cyrus Farudi is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Flipswap, Inc in 2004 and Capsule in 2011. Founded in 2011 with the goal of saving lives through soap, Jack’s gives one bar away every time one is sold. Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Idea Mensch. Thank you eMinutes.

article thumbnail

Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

In Santa Monica, the median price of homes jumped 16% in the first eight months of 2012 compared with 2011, after a 9% decline over the same period the year before, according to Multiple Listing Service data compiled by Paul Habibi, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. 2012, compared with the same period in 2011.