socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Aliso Viejo-based Buy.com said that it has seen steep growth in its Halloween related sales this year, with more than 162 percent increases in orders over lsat year. Buy.com also said that sales have been boosted this year by the addition of costumes from BuyCostumes, along with marketplace partners like Costume Craze Toynk.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The Los Angeles-based operations and security management software service, Replicated has raised $25 million to ramp up its staffing and scale its sales and marketing efforts. Last year, the company unveiled its tools for managing Kubernetes deployments and immediately saw sales increase.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

But the no-longer nascent sneaker and streetwear market is a big market, with the potential to reach $30 billion in sales globally by 2030, according to a recent report by the research firm, Cowen ( cited by The Wall Street Journal , which first reported the financing). ” Money, it’s gotta be the shoes.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Los Angeles-based online technology retailer Newegg is making an interesting extension today, into the world of automotive products--and specifically, for B2B sales. According to NewEgg, it unveiled a new automotive product category on its B2B website, where it now has over one million SKUs.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Irvine-based Specific Media, a major online advertising network, has rolled out a new product geared at offline sales reporting, the firm disclosed today. The firm said it will offer its offline sales impact reports for customers in the retail, automotive, consumer packaged goods, entertainment and travel categories.

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Sales Media Report Advertising 100

TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

Sales are growing, according to the two women, and the company’s chances have certainly been improved by the capital infusion from Drumbeat Ventures and TA Ventures, a European female-founded fund focusing on technology innovation. From then on the two co-founders began the long, hard slog of marketing their business. . ”

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2020

Irvine-based Advantage Solutions , which provides technology-enabled sales and marketing services to manufacturers and retailers, has acquired Quantum Networks , a New York City-based e-commerce retailer and agency. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

You’d imagine that companies selling tons of shelfware would quickly meet their deserved fate in the market, yet the spin around a category of software can fool buyers into thinking they “must have this product to compete.” Poorly implemented this category was the definition of shelfware.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

The most obvious, is to drive sales. However, our approach is a whole new product category, part of the marketing cloud. Before we came to market, there had not been the focus on having the right people at marketing events, that tracking people matters, and including those events as part of the sales funnel.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2020

These grants include funding to educational institutions, researchers, research centers, colleges and universities, or private companies that are researching or developing leading edge solutions in several categories including agriculture, education, energy, health, medical, space, science and technology to name a few.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I find many technologists fit well into this category, but most of them are frustrated by required interfacing to real customers, managing business finances, and marketing. This work requires market feedback, managing trials, and working with the sales team as well as developers. Galvanizing: rally a team and customers for action.

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Activity Satisfaction Metrics Startup 108

socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2015

Los Angeles-based StackSocial , which offers up online technology sales and deals on software and other products, is in a major expansion, saying yesterday that it has launched a new Health & Fitness category.

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Draper Sales Los Angeles Software 100

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

“The only success criteria of my startup career is whether GrubMarket can eventually make $100 billion of annual sales,” he said to me over both email and in a phone conversation. ” I don’t doubt that he means it. Its opportunity comes in the form of disruption and a gap in the market.

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Technical Review Startup Marketing San Diego 343

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 23, 2021

The company aims to have its first product approved by European regulators by 2023 and notching commercial sales by 2025. We’ll cover every aspect of company-building: Fundraising, recruiting, sales, product market fit, PR, marketing and brand building.

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Chief Technology Officer Technical Review Software Review Product 261

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Jeff (also an HBS alum) co-teaches the LTV course with Professor Eisenmann about a student of theirs who had written a blog post about sales taking on some of my previous assertions. That student is Erin McCann who formerly worked in sales at Google, so she has some ground to stand on in her assertions. Specifically, 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Most entrepreneurs realize that doubling their revenue each year puts them in a premium category with investors, so that may be your first target. This can be projected top down from market share assumptions, or bottom up from actual costs and sales results. Investors will test your savvy by asking where your business breaks.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

The company said it has started with televisions, but will be integrating the Amazon product API into the rest of its categories over the next few weeks. The tie into Amazon expands the depth of information on the site, and also allows Enervee to include Amazon customer reviews and sales information.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2013

Our current categories are electronics, photo equipment, cameras, lenses, appliances, music equipment, and baby products. Once you put your offer in, you enter your credit card, and you commit to the sale. We take a commission on the sale, and everybody is happy. However, rather than travel services, it''s for products.

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Pricing Product Help Sales 273

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. The equity will go toward hiring more talent to join Ghost’s 25-person team. She went on to write, “Dee and Josh are the exact right team to tackle it.

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Product Funding Technical Review Equity 191

socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2017

We are also launching beverages and coffee, two new categories, next month. With brands today, as you probably know, every consumer category is being massively disrupted by the long tail. Additionally, we're very sales and marketing driven. When we started out, it was all about new revenues and new sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2023

Multiple decision makers required to close a sale. Products so innovative that they define a new category. Then comes a second set of longer-term obstacles to consider – things that cause customer sales to decline after an initial burst, or to stop usage after initial adoption. Marketing alone cannot make a product great.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 22, 2019

After coming up with the idea Paiji had to find a manufacturer, who’d be willing to help reinvent an entire product category for a startup retailer. While Paiji won’t disclose who the manufacturing partner is for the cleaning supplies, she did note that the company was in an adjacent consumables category to cleaners.

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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".

Commerce 159

Commerce Sites Acquisition Los Angeles 159

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Multiple decision makers required to close a sale. Products so innovative that they define a new category. Then comes a second set of longer-term obstacles to consider – things that cause customer sales to decline after an initial burst, or to stop usage after initial adoption. Marketing alone cannot make a product great.

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Case Study Startup Customer Custom 174

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

general manager ( Stefano Benatti ) — filled more orders in the first two months of 2020 than all its sales for 2019, according to Cevolini. Harley Davidson introduced its all electric $29K LiveWire in 2019, becoming the first of the big gas manufacturers to offer a street-legal e-moto for sale in the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Technical Review Competition Demand Sales 277

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2021

The Power of Self-Discipline ” that I believe will help entrepreneurs move up a notch in this category: Take the time to define the problem clearly. For example, “sales are too low” may mean strong competitors, ineffective advertising, or a poor sales process. Here is a formula from Brian Tracy, in his classic book “ No Excuses!

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Startup Entrepreneur Sales Course 156

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2021

When sales fall off, you need to dig deep for the “why,” rather than just assuming the price needs to go down. In addition to total sales, you need to look at categories and trends at lower levels. You may be getting killed today by customer expectations you never worried about just a few years ago.

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Marketing Social Media Metrics Customer 162

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2022

For example, quarterly sales on one of your most important products suddenly decreases, or your inventory across a whole category has surged. If one metric changes, it may not be significant, but someone needs to monitor whole categories for fluctuations that may be a weak signal.

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eBook Metrics Examples Startup 111

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

What we’ve seen is a more exploratory customer than the industry recognizes, ready to try new form factors, products and categories. Its sales growth has expanded 200% year-over-year even as the company maintains its profitability, according to a statement. The liquor side of the PCH business is indeed incredibly strong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The challenge is to transform and hardwire your entire team to think in these terms, rather than the default focus on distinct towers of product quality, closing the sale, or fixing a complaint. If you surveyed your customers today, what percent of your customers would put you in the winning category? Marty Zwilling

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. Our goal is to produce a $10 billion+ winner and remain the market leader in this SaaS category of AI in Sales & Marketing.

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Venture Capital Capital Funding Startup 363

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

One or more of the following parameters are viewed by most investors as traction indicators, but good entrepreneurs are often creative and define their own to supplement these: Start with sales to-date for a priced offering. As an investor, I would like to see one month of sales, and see how that compares to your projections.

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Startup Metrics Customer Custom 121

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We're here to help them solve the problem of compliance and retail policy enforcement, and to understand what people are saying about their products next to their buy buttons, what kind of reviews they are getting, and to understand other things that influence sales. We provide analytics on the velocity of sales across their channels.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. If you tried to shop Amazon for just one of these categories?—?where What started as sheets now has dozens of SKU’s.

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Product Course Customer Custom 296

socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

Edmunds.com said it has added new monthly car sales and market share data by make and model; monthly fuel cost for new vehicles; incentive costs by make and manufacturer; vehicle recalls and complaints; as well as interest in vehicles by make and category, based on browsing on its website.

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Santa Monica Education Tool Sales 140

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2023

New offerings which build your brand will increase acceptance and sales of all solutions, not just the new one. Solution may require new category development time. Make sure new solutions offered actually build your brand, rather than dilute it.

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Product Services Technical Review Artificial Inteligence 141

socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Aliso Viejo-based online retailer Buy.com reported today that the firm had its biggest sales day in company history Monday, an increase of over 40 percent from the firm's sales last year. According to the firm, the company's "Cyber Monday" sales also surpassed similar, record setting sales numbers set on Black Friday.

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