socalTECH

JULY 24, 2019

The company said the expansion means that Newegg customers can pay with Bitcoin across nearly all of the countries that it serves. Newegg has been working with BitPay since 2014.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 21, 2013

According to the companies, the combined company expects to have over $400M in total sales in 2014. The companies said the combined company will help them to expand its customer base in the United States, accelerate international and category expansion, and also gain "scale and operational synergies".

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

And yet I learned that in 2013/2014, only 24% of companies had real growth. That means that despite being a multi-billion industry to drive sales, fewer than 30% met their growth objectives. Apparently, the key to growth is the relationships that you may have with customers and suppliers. DUN dun dun!

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Initially established as part of a collaboration with Microsoft back in 2014 when the company first began work on its Hololens, the media giant is spinning out the team as it explores the broader sale of certain assets.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

In 2014, we raised quite a bit of money from St. The company has grown about 200 percent since 2014, in terms of revenue. From a customer standpoint, though, it's pretty clear. So, from the customer side, it was much easier. Really, we're the sales and marketing arm of those companies. One of my partners was St.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Both programmers, the two reconnected after doing stints as custom developers during and after college, and then when they were developing tools for their families’ businesses as residential contractors in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The company, which started in 2014, now has over 40 employees. Mike Whitmire: We put the first version of our software out in 2014, and got a couple of beta clients. In our first year of selling, we brought on over 50 clients, and last year we had 170 customers, and we now have about 40 employees. What are you working on?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2014

These companies focus on bringing the best selection and new experiences to customers. The Los Angeles based e-commerce startup Clearance.co , has worked to revolutionize the shopping experience by bringing customers the finest quality, the best selection, the best service, and the lowest priced merchandise. Clearance.co

Commerce 95

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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. Often in this strategy you end up giving them the product for free and bill them only services fees.

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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). In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). billion by 2014. Calls are changing but not dying. There are 2.9

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

Robert Blatt: We say to people that we do customer experience for multi-location brands. Our platform enables them to manage the digital representation of their locations, and engage with consumers in paid, social, and search, to improve that customer experience. So what does your customer look like nowadays? ,p>

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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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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2016

Fenero is a provider of cloud-based contact center solutions for sales and customer service operations worldwide. The company processes more than one million calls a day, delivers 99.999% uptime to its clients and, since 2014, has experienced experienced year-on-year growth of 300% since 2014.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

That was in 2014, and that was our pivot moment. We got really serious after the success of that customer, who wanted to make this technology available for all of its employees across the globe. How is it your first customer was in Australia? It all happened in 2014, really fast. So how did you end up here in California?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

If you don’t have a destination, don’t waste your money trying to get there, and don’t expect anyone to support you along the way Projecting financials is a natural extension of the homework every entrepreneur needs to do on customer opportunity size, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2015

Dreamforce is the conference for sales and marketing professionals. The 2014 show hosted 135,000 attendees and boasted A-list guest speakers and performers like Hillary Rodham Clinton, Neil Young, Anthony Robbins, and Bruno Mars. Hosted by SAAS giant Salesforce, it is more akin to a circus than a professional event.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

Instead, they need to validate a customer problem and real market need first. Don’t create solutions looking for a problem , since investors ignore these, and customers other than early adopters are hard to find. Customers buy solutions, not technology. Look for customer willingness and ability to pay.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Manage customer service. They probably have arbitrated differences many times before in their lives, and know how important it is to remain calm and soft-spoken in the face of emotional customers and processes that are not working. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers. boomers entrepreneurs gen-x gen-y startups'

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5 There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. This gives rise to the personalization and customization that we all want. Crowdsource: putting your audience to work beyond customers.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

This tendency is understandable, as most business negotiations address near-term objectives, such as driving incremental revenue or acquiring customers. In order to close the sale, the bar owner “threw in” four season tickets to the Green Bay Packers football season. However, shrewd entrepreneurs look beyond a deal’s near-term impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2014

In other words, inventions are necessary but not sufficient to create real value for investors and customers. You need a viable business model and customers. Investors expect proof that your invention can be manufactured in volume and can justify a sales price at least double the cost to a large customer set that has money to spend.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor. I oversee sales, marketing and partnerships, and my role is really trying to figure out which brands make most sense to partner with MuteSix.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

During its 2014 fiscal year, UGGS sales are estimated to have exceeded $500 million, while Deckers’ overall revenue was in excess of $1.5 His cheeky marketing (“The Best For Your Stick,” “Quick Humps,” and “Dream Cream”) fueled sales and caused High Schools to ban T-shirts sporting the Sex Wax logo. What's SUP? –

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socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2014

Matt Brinker, our VP of products, comes from the construction industry, as does Rich Haus, our VP of Sales and Service. Your customer base is in an age old industry, not known for rapid technology adoption - how have you found reception to your product? Todd Davis: The reason this is news in 2014, is exactly as you state.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

I love the enthusiasm, the boundless energy and the sense of possibility that comes from having an idea that hasn’t yet been beat up in the marketplace of competing ideas, customer contracts, VC skepticism, jaded journalists or fickle consumers who are on the The New, New Thing. A great CFO will help you plan that. Board Preparation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2014

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Display ads on mobile devices, including video and audio, also offer a new opportunity to reach target customers. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 4/1/2014.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2015

On July 15, Amazon’s Prime Day , an ostensible celebration of the online retailer’s 20th birthday, will offer members “more deals than Black Friday,” including seven Deals of the Day, thousands of lightning offers, and flash sales every 10 minutes. billion in 2014 Singles’ Day sales, spurred by more than $2 billion in the first hour.)

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

If you choose your name well and it represents what your customers value in you then it will be memorable, differentiated and meaningful. A brand is a marathon, not a sprint. It’s something you must earn over time by living up to the name you define. We have a few portfolio companies going through brand changes.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Barry Lieberman: My backgruond is about 35 years in technology, business development, and sales and marketing. I built my own company around marketing services, and have been around business development, marketing, custom service, and sales, and also on the consumer side of technology, a little bit a mix of the two.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

I saw that, if you build a good product that customers love, that people love to use, how you need to market it, how you need to run that project, and so forth. When we first launched in 2014, we found the average person might watch 1.2 Ilya Pozin: We launched in April of 2014, and sold in March of 2019, so just five years.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via credit card), including this Top Ten list for 2014. Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. Or, fall back to the old standby DreamWeaver by Adobe.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2015

That includes e-commerce retailers, which continue to claim a growing slice of overall retail sales. Last year alone, online holiday sales rose 15% over 2013 figures, including increases of 32% on Thanksgiving, 26% on Black Friday, and 17% on Cyber Monday. Plus, holiday e-commerce sales are widely expected to continue rising in 2015.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

The company became a Wall Street darling when it raised $1 billion-plus through its 2014 IPO, and now claims to have deployed roughly $19 billion in loans since inception. LendingClub stumbled earlier this year, however, when an internal investigation found improprieties in the sale of $22 million in loans.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

The company became a Wall Street darling when it raised $1 billion-plus through its 2014 IPO, and now claims to have deployed roughly $19 billion in loans since inception. LendingClub stumbled earlier this year, however, when an internal investigation found improprieties in the sale of $22 million in loans.

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