InfoChachkie

JUNE 24, 2013

One that he particularly struggled with was "word-of-mouth marketing,”which he consistently referred to as "mouth-to-mouth marketing." We adopted his phrasing and made it our mission to devise creative, mouth-to-mouth marketing initiatives. I now realize why guerrilla marketing is not for the timid. we sure do.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The company said the new funds will go to expand sales, marketing, and delivery resources globally; the company said it shifted into the cloud market in 2013, and has now completed more than 400 AWS engagements and 150 AWS certifications. Onica is led by CEO Stephen Garden. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued?

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JANUARY 27, 2014

The company also has an expanding base of customers in the enterprise market According to TigerText, the round comes after it more than quadrupled its sales in 2013, and will help to go towards accelerating market penetration. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 2, 2013

His one regret was not training people to take over sales sooner because that was a weak area and held back his company’s growth. When considering companies to accept they analyze the market, but more importantly, the team, the traction and validation which was important and repeated often by other speakers throughout the conference.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Invoca , the developer of call tracking software for the lead generation market, said this week that it has seen what it says is record growth in enterprise customers. The company did not disclose any finances, but said it has seen its enterprise customers grow by 375 percent since 2013. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 24, 2013

One that he particularly struggled with was "word-of-mouth marketing,”which he consistently referred to as "mouth-to-mouth marketing." We adopted his phrasing and made it our mission to devise creative, mouth-to-mouth marketing initiatives. I now realize why guerrilla marketing is not for the timid. we sure do.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Founded in 2013 by de Haaff and Chris Waters in the Bay Area, the company announced in July it had surpassed $40 million in annual recurring revenue from the subscribers to its software-as-a-service. Aha makes a program that helps project managers develop new product roadmaps, which are used by others in the customer’s business, from sales.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 9, 2013

Tuesday, January 15, 2013 -- Intro to Data Science and Analysis. Predict where your future sales will come from or whom to target with your next marketing campaign? General Assembly LA. Do you want to create a recommendation engine for your customers? Predict which employees at your company will leave or stay?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2015

The app helps grocery store shoppers organize their shopping, by finding sales and coupons at local grocery stores. Among the updates to the app are highlights of "trending" sales; a simplified, visual interface for sale items; and highlights of "instant" coupons.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices. how much energy to put into channel partners vs. direct sales. And here’s the thing.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

I spent some time with the MomentFeed team, and recognized what they were doing and where they were going, and felt that this could become an enduring, long term company, that can be the best place that employees have ever worked and the best partner our customers ever had, so I jumped on in early 2013. We accomplished that, that did it well.

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Xconomy

JULY 24, 2018

In December 2013 – light years ago in technology time – the retail giant Target disclosed a massive software security breach of its point of sale systems. It seems a distant memory now. The bad guys fled the virtual premises with the credit card information of 40 million customers. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Kevin Akeroyd , GM & SVP of Oracle Marketing Cloud and their own Matthew Collins , SVP of Global Marketing. Now nearly every conversation about marketing starts with growth. And yet I learned that in 2013/2014, only 24% of companies had real growth. Knowing which data to focus on will be a game changer to marketers.”

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Xconomy

APRIL 25, 2018

Since its founding in 2013, SupplyKick has generated tens-of-millions of dollars in sales, with our team doubling in size during the last year alone. More importantly, unlike many of the retail jobs the president wants to protect, these are all well-paid marketing, logistics, and analytics jobs that support.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2014

Some provide subscription based services offering designer shoes or low-cost razors, but is there a market for closeout or clearance products? From it’s inception in April 2013 until December 2013, the company generated $2.1 These companies focus on bringing the best selection and new experiences to customers.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2014

Their focus on ease-of-use form over function resulted in a series of products that defeated stalwart incumbents, including marketing-leader Symantec. In fact, we used the concluding sentence of his review in our marketing materials for several years: “ GoToMyPC is revolutionary, and pcAnywhere is evolutionary. ”

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

Coming out of ServiceNow around 2013, I realized that a lot of problems that we had been discussing and dealing with with customers adopting applications like ServiceNow into the enterprise, was establishing connections of that data and processes with systems in the enterprise. So, it's quite new.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2018

We started in October of 2013, and last year, in December, we closed our Series B with Sequoia Capital with $21M. We viewed this as a central marketplace which would allow drivers to be put in the driving seat, get paid what they want, go where they want to go, and get paid the market price, and would help solve this issue.

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

The stock market reached a new all-time high in 2013, and is finally providing some liquidity relief to concerned investors and startups alike. Home prices are slowly coming back, and consumer spending reached a new high of almost $11 billion in May 2013. Otherwise, sales, marketing, and operational costs will kill you.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2013

In Q4 consumers saved more than $25 per transaction on average and its Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales performed three times better than the industry average, driving 250 percent increase in additional retailer sales. Doubling user base & top-tier clients. I’m confident in the team’s ability to execute. Blogger Rewards Program.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 16, 2017

Finding potential customers continues to be a huge challenge not only for established marketing and sales teams but also for startup executives and solo entrepreneurs. A study in 2013 showed that 61 percent of marketers found it hard to generate high-quality leads. You need to have a strategy.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

They've solved it at the enterprise paint point, where we are at the mid-market. Our product was built specifically for the mid market, and we've been riding the wave of IT budgets, which are starting to open up, and companies are really quickly signing up because this is a big pain point, from their perspective.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 23, 2012

PayPal and Discover have partnered to serve millions of their clients shipping from in-store locations starting in 2013. The program will begin in 2013 and stores with a relationship with Discover will integrate and accept PayPal’s digital wallet. PayPal already has stores with its point-of-sale integrations.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

The combination of Search and Social is redefining the way marketers are allocating their ad budgets. Although Search and Social both matter, Experian Marketing Services recently pointed out that 2013 saw a significant drop in the number of users who accessed social sites from search. Search Meets Social = Commerce.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

Early in a services business there is usually no profits as the company reinvests in hiring people to grow, but by $20 million in sales the company should at least be pulling in 10% profits (if not more) depending on how much is reinvested. Who are your competitors – how much do they charge?&#. It’s pure irony. interest?

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JANUARY 31, 2014

. “Given the company’s track record of rapid growth and market leadership, we jumped at the opportunity to deepen our partnership with Dan and his management team.” ” Over $6 billion in medical billing. Funds to accelerate growth.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2013

Scott Morrow is an Internet and startup veteran, having run such companies as Oversee.net and ThisNext, and headed up product marketing for IAC/Citysearch. When I first came on board, we were not very sophisticated with our search engine marketing. We grew our SEM and improved our ROI. DE, Italy, and have similar plans with Asia.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Traction is evidence that your product or service has started that “hockey- stick” adoption rate which implies a large market, a valid business model, and sustainable growth. As an investor, I would like to see one month of sales, and see how that compares to your projections. Market penetration. First of all, a definition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2013

Seasonal sales fluctuations eat cash. Fluctuating sales means more inventory is required to cover the ups and downs. Sales volumes are still ramping up while marketing expenses are at max. These are “up front” costs that can’t wait the four or five months before the sales and revenue catch up.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2016

PacketSled plans to use the capital to embark on new marketing initiatives and make additional hires in sales, engineering, and operations, according to a recent statement. The company raised $3 million in a 2013 seed round. The company also has an office in Seattle.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Omeid’s mother is a small business owner that has had to deal with the Yelp’s sales team on multiple occasions. The Yelp sales team is exploiting thousands of small business owners across the nation every single day. At that point it will make sense to raise money, but not until we solidify our business model and go-to-market strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

The point isn’t to “build a business on YouTube” but rather to use YouTube as a marketing platform to build a video business that works across many platforms. Best is if you have a combination of ad revenue, sponsorships and some forms of non ad revenue (subscriptions, merch, music sales, etc.).

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. I agree with YouTube (that they provide more (hosting, ad sales, etc.)

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Sales of both drugs, ivacaftor (Kalydeco) and the combo pill ivacaftor-lumacaftor (Orkambi), reached almost $1 billion in 2015 and are growing. Telaprevir sales rocketed to nearly $1 billion in the first six months, at the time the fastest drug launch ever. Called sofosbuvir (Sovaldi), the drug won FDA approval in December 2013.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Microsoft December 26 said it was opening new stores in 2013 after what it said was a momentous year for its retail stores. ” The move by Microsoft to open stores across its markets is not just a sales generation tool as many would still buy online but is a move to give personal attention of a sales associate to its customers.

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