Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Business tools — from customer relationship management ( CRM ) platforms to accounting software — help to save startups time and money by automating key processes and maximizing efficiency. The platform makes it simple to automate a number of processes too, from status updates and email notifications to progress updates and time tracking.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

It also handles the back end as well by automating the posting, sale and shipment of unsold inventory while offering immediate payment to creditworthy sellers. We have seen a lot of stuff in inventory management but most of it are tools for one side of the market,” Kaden added.

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Product Funding Technical Review Equity 191

socalTECH

MAY 28, 2013

Our current categories are electronics, photo equipment, cameras, lenses, appliances, music equipment, and baby products. Joe Marrapodi: All of that process is automated. We''re now in five categories, and we''re looking into computers and video games next. However, rather than travel services, it''s for products.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Is Automated Advertising the next-generation Customer Relationship Management (CRM)? I often describe the similarities between what the automated advertising industry is doing and how CRM developed. CRM companies like Salesforce.com used to refer to themselves as Sales Force Automation (SFA) companies.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

We have two parallel tracks we have constructed for our product line, which incorporates automation, and we've launched those solutions to connected siloed applications together in the most meaningful way. We have a very well defined story and product solution line around service integration and data integration. So, it's quite new.

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SaaS Startup Customer Custom 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

Some might say that Elon Musk epitomizes this category. I’m not yet convinced that anyone has a fully automated system that will nail your entrepreneurial DNA, and make you succeed, despite the unpredictable business and personal realities. They are often described as driven, focused, cold, ruthless, and calculating. Opportunist.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

Despite the fact that most of the CEOs I advise would claim to be in the first category, when I dig deeper I find that at best they are fast followers , due to the time consuming challenges of transforming any business in this digital age. Is your strategy as a business leader to be a first-mover or a follower?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

On the entertainment side, Rubicon said that there was a "flood" of inventory into the system, with new celebrity gossip blogs, photo sites, fashion, and more, which pushed down the CPMs for that category; despite the drop, the firm also said that publishers are seeing a 70% revenue growth despite the lower CPMs for their properties.

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Clearstone Advertising Report Entertainment 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We can very quickly determine who is authorized and who is unauthorized to sell a product, detect violations of policy, and while our clients sleep at night, have an automated system which takes all of the next steps of enforcement. The first piece of this is getting really great visibility of the landscape of e-commerce.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

So, we created a site which not just aggregates, but also organizes activities by type, category--land, sea, air--and things like competition, family, culture, adrenaline--to really narrow down the possibilities for what you're looking for. The automated part, is a customer fills out a form and buys the product through their shopping cart.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2019

If you are in that category, you should take a hard look at a new book, “ Nincompoopery: Why Your Customers Hate You--and How to Fix It ” by John R Brandt, who has some real insight on this problem. Data-fueled automation requires big skill changes. Get out and meet your customers to learn what turns them on these days.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Manrique Brenes: We see ourselves in the home automation market, and not as an irrigation company. There are lots of established players in this market, who pretty much own all of the shelf space in this category. Irrigation is not generally known as a leading edge market. How are you approaching that? How do you get to market?

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Demand Startup Southern California Marketing 258

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Automatic Mix’n Machine by Vitamix : Vitamix’s award-winning Automatic Mix’n Machine represents a giant leap forward in flexibility and automation for the restaurant dessert market. A completely programmable high-end commercial-grade mixer, the Automatic Mix’n Machine blends hard-to-mix ingredients (cookies, candy, etc.)

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Technology Google Mobile Outsource Development 104

socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

Smartify''s software-as-a-service platform automates all aspects of their digital marketing, across their channels, including mobile, social, email, and web. Brands across all categories are launching incentives and promotional marketing every day, every hour, every week, every month. That promotional spending is growing exponentially.

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Marketing Pasadena Platform Email 196

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

So the team set out to solve the “chicken or the egg” problem by onboarding > 1,000 high-quality merchants across 50 service categories while going deep in two micro-areas within LA as our test market. Ethan’s experience with RedBeacon led him to believe that merchant density would really matter and I agreed.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

I know that any time ads are mentioned it makes the blood boil on any self respecting technologist the same way it did when HotWire ran their first ad in 1994 and the way it made Google’s blood boil when Overture launched the sponsored search category.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

We went a little too fast, and took on too many categories at first. Internally, although the customer won't see this, we're spending significant amounts on automation and on internal systems to support significant growth. You have to make sure your cost of acquisition, retention rates, and conversion metrics are all in place.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

Industrial networking is a new category for me, personally, and I only started here two years ago. All of the machines that those kinds of companies run on, over the last twenty years, have become automated. For those who haven't heard of Veracity, what is it you do?

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Networking Startup Incubator Orange County 124

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

If you are in this category, first know that you are not alone, but then you need to take a look at the advice given by Patricia Sigmon in her book “ Six Steps to Creating Profit: A Guide for Small and Mid-Sized Service-Based Businesses.” Streamline management costs. Raise the marketing bar. Today, marketing is all about immediacy.

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Entrepreneur Startup Outsource Development Sales 93

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Both categories need to follow these principles for success: Organize and plan every business effort. Use technology thoughtfully to automate things that take a lot of time, thus gaining leverage. In my experience, I have found that the product is usually the easy part, and the hard part is turning the invention into a business.

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Organization Product Technology Networking 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2012

If you are in this category, first know that you are not alone, but then you need to take a look at the advice given by Patricia Sigmon in her book “ Six Steps to Creating Profit: A Guide for Small and Mid-Sized Service-Based Businesses.” Streamline management costs. Raise the marketing bar. Today, marketing is all about immediacy.

Startup 94

Startup Outsource Development Sales Social Media 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2011

If you are in this category, first know that you are not alone, but then you need to take a look at the advice given by Patricia Sigmon in her new book “ Six Steps to Creating Profit: A Guide for Small and Mid-Sized Service-Based Businesses.” Streamline management costs. Raise the marketing bar. Today, marketing is all about immediacy.

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Tips Startup Services Outsource Development 92

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

There's been a revolution in the amount of information that can be gathered about our genetics�driven by automated gene sequencing equipment and advancement. We figured out it's pretty much a failed category. Behavior change is hard, and frankly this is why the category of wellness struggles. Why is that?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

He was originally working on home automation and control, and as he started to talk to people about what he was developing, energy turned out to be what people were honing in on, and which was the most interesting component of what he was doing. We're in the category of energy monitoring tools. Kevin Strong: There are several things.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2009

My life has been spend around shopping research, retail development, business development, and understanding how people shop in stores, category management, and merchandising. A lot of the time, I had to do consumer research, and had to analyze how people buy in a category--whether that's by brand, by price, etc.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's in the automated translation category of the industry. Help us understand your technology--is this focused on the automated language translation technology, or on the process of localizing a web site?

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

The problem with using that, is it's now spam--and it will not create a spam category for that email. We're now heads down, hacking away at building more technology and more automation, and better pieces into our back end. What lots of people do instead, is they use the spam button or delete button in their email platform.

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Newsletter Startup CTO Hire Blogging 216

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

If you seen the entrepreneurs that disrupt big categories, they came at it from a very different approach, which is not iterative, but is transformative. Did either of you have experience in the direct mail industry, and why did you pick that to build these systems here? Dave Fink: Neither Jonathan nor I came from a direct mail background.

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CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

MW: Problems that you always have technology in general or tech entrepreneurship in general is a very broad category. We’re really interested in having that person – that’s the analyst – who has been stuck with so much manual work that they are not able to create an automated system. That’s a pretty big market.

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Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

socalTECH

JULY 8, 2009

It's very automated. We're rating adds in all these industries, such as apparel, auto, beer, and beverages--22 of the key categories, which are the bulk of the $60 billion spent in TV advertising each year. For the first time, it gives them a view of how they're doing compared to their key competitors. Steve Goldman: Very little.

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Advertising Palomar Startup Customer 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

MakeSpace set out to reinvent the whole category. Driver routing systems, scheduling, inventory management & tracking, warehousing systems, photography automation, customer service applications as well as the obvious front-end apps such as our consumer apps for keeping track of your goods. Innovation.

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Ideas Startup Technical Review Pricing 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca is the market leader in a hot and growing category: marketing automation for telephony driven by the explosion in smart phones where a phone call is a single click of a button. Invoca was raising at the tail end of this market phenomenon at this time doing tens of millions in SaaS recurring revenue and growing at a nice clip.

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Funding Startup SaaS Venture Capital 150

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Many might say Donald Trump epitomizes this category. I’m not yet convinced that anyone has a fully automated system that will nail your entrepreneurial DNA, and make you succeed, despite the unpredictable business and personal realities. They are often described as driven, focused, cold, ruthless, and calculating. Opportunist.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Framework Web 96