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. Saucey launched in 2014 and now operates across 22 markets including LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, New York City, Chicago, Washington, Dallas, Orlando, Tampa and Miami.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2012

San Diego-based MOGL , which operates a customer loyalty program for restaurants focused on game mechanics, said today that it has raised $10M in a round of funding. The firm said the new funds go towards expansion into new target markets. MOGL offers incentives and competitions to spur visits to restaurants.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Dmitri Leonov: We built a distribution business for equipment for the spa industry, and have had 10,000 client over that time, but in the last few years, we've really focused on talking to spa customers about their needs in the market. Essentially, the customer wants natural and organic ingredients. Do users buy or rent these?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity (www.daasity.com)  which just raised $2.3M in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. Dan LeBlanc: I used to run customer analytics for a brand called ProFlowers.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

South Korea has fined San Diego's Qualcomm $208M in an antitrust case, the Korea Fair Trade Commission said today. The fine came out of a complaint that the firm used unfair business practices to dominant the local cell phone chip market. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. That's where the original concept came from--so we wrote up the plan, and it won the competition.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo Laboratories (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. The first thing you are trained on, is to qualify customers and figure out if they need upright or inverted microscopes. The startup is backed by the Tech Coast Angels and Dolby Ventures.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. The first thing you are trained on, is to qualify customers and figure out if they need upright or inverted microscopes. The startup is backed by the Tech Coast Angels and Dolby Ventures.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2013

One of the companies that has recently is On Ramp Wireless (www.onrampwireless.com), a San Diego company in the M2M market headed by Kevin Hell. The firm recently raised a $15M series C funding, and we caught up with Kevin to learn more about why its customers, and investors, are interested in its technology.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

to San Diego. Marketing , Costello and Sons Insurance , Deloitte , The City of. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. pushing CEOs and business owners to innovate to outperform the competition. If you're interested in reaching our.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. Those technologies allow us to scale and offer a superior product for customers. Who are your core customers? I have a Ph.D.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Last night, I was knocking a couple back with a friend at The Waterfront (San Diego’s oldest continually operating pub). The immediate solution for Apple is to find another market to enter, as expected that market is China. This buddy of mine, Jordan, is a long time iPhone user. Apple’s Current Problem.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

That data--if you could just find the right piece--could be useful in a number of areas, particularly in the financial markets. Whether that''s for competitive analysis or market analysis, our product is basically able to monitor--on a very large scale--things that are important to your particular company.

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socalTECH

MAY 8, 2015

In a world awash with on-demand startups, Los Angeles-based Serviz (www.serviz.com) stands out--not because of the market segment it is tackling, but because it was founded by two, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Zorik Gordon and Michael Kline. We have a very unique approach to the market, very much like Uber.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2011

Telcentris is based in San Diego. What has set us aside from the competition, is we built our own back end telco platform. That's allowed us to leverage that platform to sell services, such as telephony to hundreds of business customers, which is why you seeing us doing both things in the space.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

To fix that, San Diego-based Kazuhm (www.kazuhm.com) has created software, which uses the same kinds of distributed computing techniques made popular in the consumer world by community projects like SETI, and applied that to the enterprise. Tim O'Neal: There are many compelling elements. It's been really great. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Pricing engine helps publishers ascertain ad inventory pricing by analyzing ad transaction data from the market/exchanges. Customer are primarily large media companies (publishers) and their media agencies. They sponsor TWiVC.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

In general, M&A is a natural part of the IT security market. It’s why this market segment is so attractive to venture investors. Symantec Forces the Industry to Stay Competitive. For 2015, there were 133 information security M&A deals, according to 451 Research’s Tech M&A Outlook 2016. Why is this happening?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

It’s an interesting tactic that seems unusual in a competitive business environment, but makes sense when considering the constantly expanding sea of cyber threats—and solutions—through which organizations must wade. Cyber industry alliances, the thinking goes, could make customers’ cyber defenses stronger and easier to manage.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. I thought, what would I do if I was trying to sell to a customer. Page 1: Market Size. $3 Page 3: Competition. It got worse.

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JANUARY 1, 2016

In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. The reality of most startups is about survival.

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Xconomy

JUNE 15, 2016

Having a board helps you keep your eye consistently on the strategic aspects of your business which, in turn, helps you attract investors and customers. However, even in a small startup, there are many risks that matter – such as hiring the wrong leaders, not getting sufficient investor support, or lacking a competitive advantage.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

We seem to receive lots of pitches from companies looking to attack the mobile market with their mobile software applications, but few who have deployed on-deck with carriers. Derrick Oien: The primary market is the operator. The second customer is the social networking sites. So we sell into the carriers.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. Who are the typical customers for your products? It's a month-to-month rental, although many of our customers buy the product--but they can do it on an operations budget.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. MW: It has to do with the difference between a marketer and a developer. You’re trying to be the middle-man between the marketers and developers?

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Xconomy

JULY 12, 2016

The emerging global market for business services using drones is estimated at more than $127 billion , according to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Uber adds an estimated 50,000 new drivers every month, and 54 percent of Lyft customers say the ridesharing service enables them to get to destinations that would otherwise be inaccessible.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

We spoke with Sherry Gunther, CEO and founder of the firm, earlier this week to get a better look at the company and the dynamics behind the virtual world market nowadays--as well as why Sherry decided to make the jump from the world of entertainment media to online. Sherry Gunther: That's been the advantage of a maturing market space.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Many people are too cautious in sales processes and as a result when they present their solutions they end up sounding milquetoast and undifferentiated from anybody else in the market. The first of question is about qualifying your potential customers aka leads. I recently wrote about the three rules of sales. Why Buy Anything ?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. Hit some bumps in the road?

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