Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Teams reconvened Saturday morning at 9:00 AM and continued to code and build their startup throughout the day. All attendees really did such an amazing job building out their products, talking to customers and putting on a great show of presentations. By 10:00 PM, teams were working away into the night. What a SWLA.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Explaining that customers were. Labeling it a “behavioral based software” with 2600 paid subscribers, CEO, Leanne Ozaine-Smith found her niche through her love of teaching finance one-on-one. Hunt strives to improve product search with crowdsourcing through product questions, comments, and reviews. likely relate to.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

On one end, entrepreneurs who have (at minimum) built something customers love and are willing to pay for, and the other hand, investors who are looking for the very companies who fit that profile. You’ve built a great business, your customers love you. And those who have gone through the process, know. Where SeedInvest Sprouted.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

LendingClub helped to pioneer the model, saying in November 2012 that it had surpassed $1 billion in loans issued since 2006, when it was founded. billion in loans since 2012, when its business “morphed” into an alternative lender, according to founder and CEO Dave Gilbert. million in 2012 to more than $59 million in 2015.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

LendingClub helped to pioneer the model, saying in November 2012 that it had surpassed $1 billion in loans issued since 2006, when it was founded. billion in loans since 2012, when its business “morphed” into an alternative lender, according to founder and CEO Dave Gilbert. million in 2012 to more than $59 million in 2015.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

We''ve got a grid of 500 nodes, handling a billion and a half clicks and call impressions, which we drive for our customers. Yelp and Agie''s List has been fantastic in the reviews path. But, going down that review path was not where we wanted to take it, or at least, not where we wanted to start. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

We''ve got a grid of 500 nodes, handling a billion and a half clicks and call impressions, which we drive for our customers. Yelp and Agie''s List has been fantastic in the reviews path. But, going down that review path was not where we wanted to take it, or at least, not where we wanted to start. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

The industry had seen unprecedented growth in the past decade due to a combination of factors, one of which was the United States’ economic recession. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms. It has been predicted that this method will continue to increase in popularity in 2012.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2012

One of the areas that startups and healthcare investors have turned their attention to in recent years, is leveraging the many advances in technology--wireless, smart phones, software, and more--and applying those to the health area. Kian Saneii: 2012 is a big year for us. We spoke with CEO Kian Saneii to learn more about the firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. You are particularly vulnerable if: You have revenue concentration (few customers each providing a large total of percentage of your revenue).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

In some ways having seen these trends before and being a bit more mature (code for I’m 47) I think I feel just a little bit less pressure than I did when I was younger. I spend more time an executive recruiting of key talent for portfolio companies in which I’ve invested and more time in product reviews. Year in, year out.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

From devising a tweet length pitch to having an easy to remember name, each branding opportunity is a touch point for a new customer to be attracted to what you have to offer. In order to prepare for TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 I reviewed company bios via the official site and read taglines that said “cool” rather than what the company does.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

As we know, developers always give their product a code name. We built a Proof of Concept in 2010, went into closed beta in 2011 and opened up to the public in Dec 2012. We restrict money transfer to South Africa while we conclude our due diligence on international money transfer partners. The name just stuck!

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

DinnDinn launched on Tuesday, August 28 2012. When your company is just starting out there is a lot of work to do not to mention trying to grow your customer base, which in this case means gaining traction with users. We chose the name DinnDinn because it is something that everyone young and old can relate to. When Was It Launched?

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The top five tournaments for “StarCraft 2″ in the month of June 2012 had combined prize-pools of over $150,000. Adam Miller transformed his company into one of the world’s leading software-as-a-service companies, specifically in the HR world. In 2012, ShoeDazzle jumped from 3 to 13 million members.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. Wilson joined Paltalk from Zynga/OMGPOP where he was Chief Revenue Officer of the New York City based developer/publisher social mobile games company, which was sold to Zynga in 2012 for $210 Million. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Make sure to tune in!

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 11, 2012

One of the worst things for an entrepreneur to have happen to them is to lose communication due to battery life. with a new two-year customer agreement. Software Platform. It’s the longest-lasting smartphone on the block, and at just 8.99 The DROID RAZR MAXX comes equipped with 32 GB of total memory and will be $299.99

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

But only from customers. That’s because you are not their customer. The customer are advertising agencies and brands themselves. Unless you become a paying customer you’re just a cost center to them. I’d be driving them to merchants who want to reach their potential customers through me.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

John Busher, Harry Balls – a humorous site offering reviews and information about mobile apps, primarily indie games. In this interview, Simon says it’s crucial to focus on your product, especially in a mobile world where the App Store reviews are all you have. What’s the most valuable kind of customer?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? I predict this will come before the end of 2012. They controlled distribution to the masses. It was mostly timing. The Present Era.

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