socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2013

If you are a millenial entering the workforce, what would you be most comfortable with -- a tool designed to work and look like a social network, or a tool built around an old fashioned corporate enterprise software UI? She said that PromoJam is looking to "democratize enterprise social marketing" with the new turnkey system.

Tool 190

Tool Services Social Network Template 190

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. It offers a variety of conversion-optimized templates, which B2B firms, agencies, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and universities can use. What’s more?

Tool 81

Tool Startup Help Template 81

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 22, 2016

Less than a month ago, Snapchat opened custom on-demand geofilters to everyone. Industry news was excited, but for how amazing of a product they are, custom Snapchat geofilters have remained stunningly under the radar. Well, Snapchat has made it so that anyone can create and upload a custom filter to any area they want.

Customer 40

Customer Custom Snapchat Design 40

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Play around with clean, bold design. You don’t always know what customers are going to go crazy for until you show them something new and gauge their reaction. While functionality is imperative, especially in the tech space, thoughtful design is equally as important. Website design: Less is more! You need to be a unicorn.

Guide 105

Guide Startup Marketing Template 105

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist). Customer are primarily large media companies (publishers) and their media agencies. Total raised: $2.5mm – Read more: TechCrunch.

Venture Capital 214

Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

I ended up really relating to the nuance and intricacies of product supply and customer demand. There are so many different routes a person can take to enter the industry, such as design, buying, production, marketing, eCommerce and styling to name a few. I was fortunate to acquire my first job with Robinsons-May in 1989.

Sites 100

Sites Sales Santa Barbara Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2012

From our customer research, people would like to record their dreams once they wake up, as well as to share their dreams with their families & friends, but there are no simple tools to do so. For each dream you share online, your dream will be displayed in a unique website page with a simple template. What problem do you solve?

Template 82

Template Social Media Media Research 82

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

In the corporate world, events are more than just an event�they are opportunity to connect with your customers and turn potential customers into buyers. We also wanted access to development resources, and we have our product team here, the engineers and designers, all based in Santa Monica. How do you make those events happen?

Sales 100

Sales Santa Monica Startup Orange County 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers, or a mobile smartphone app. Or, fall back to the old standby DreamWeaver by Adobe.

Startup 100

Startup Commerce Sites Blogging 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

This costs nothing, and allows you to safely collect money from customers all around the world. Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers.

Commerce 99

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

This costs nothing, and allows you to safely collect money from customers all around the world. Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers.

Sites 78

Sites Commerce Startup Tool 78

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

By using SteelHouse, ecommerce sites can use live data to instantly respond to a customer’s wants and needs for stronger transaction values, increased conversion rates, and an overall better customer experience. Fun Fact: Technology is in their DNA. Incubator: Amplify LA.

Startup 111

Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

This costs nothing, and allows you to safely collect money from customers all around the world. Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers.

Commerce 88

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 88

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

I was interested in the opportunity, because although the firm had been around for some number of years, they had an interesting product, great customers, and the legal market is a massive market. It seemed like we had enough assets there to do something interesting with the company. But, that's where the market is going.

Legalzoom 164

Legalzoom Startup Template Sample 164

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I’ve seen that in courses and in design specs many times, and it’s a HORRIBLE IDEA. Of course, improving customer satisfaction is a goal, but the system would drill down to specific issues such as knowledge of store layout. As an example – …” In other words, here’s a template for a conversation (or email).

Satisfaction 167

Satisfaction Examples Course Technical Review 167

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Other firms like Google bring massive resources to design or engineering and as as corporate VC can offer things normal VC firms can’t offer. Partner Leverage.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Platform Startup Resource 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

A business plan is the outward facing definition of the business you hope to drive with your hardware solution, with a hardware overview in the intro to highlight customer value and competitiveness. Use non-fuzzy terms to quantify customer value. Provide specifics on the customer business model.

Product 169

Product Summary Startup Examples 169

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

We came up with a positioning strategy that helps them sell value-added when recession-pinched customers are squeezing them for low rates. Clients use our templates for things like sales sheets. To be in tune with the times we call it the Daylight Transport Strategic Saver program: we give you 8 ways to save using LTL.

Marketing 150

Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. We cover commercial and residential topics, including housing, mortgages, design and architecture. Back to Top « Customer Service. WSJ Editor.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

Rich Customers Target customers who will move fast and pay a premium for a unique offering. Focus Customers will only buy a simple product with a singular value proposition. Pain Killers Pick the one thing that is of burning importance to the customer then delight them with a compelling solution.

Company 40

Company Companies Startup Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

Put yourself in the shoes of your customers or users. Answering only one or two of these questions won’t work. > I need to send marketing, e-commerce or e-statements emails to my customers to drive revenue or reduce costs. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Web 2.0 Outsource Development 40

Frank Addante

MARCH 12, 2007

As we evolved our business plan and tweaked our marketing messaging, our engineering team was shielded from a lot of the distraction (being in a different location, they didnt get sucked into the "water cooler" conversation or hallway chatter) and they always remained 100% focused on building innovative products driven by customer need.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup .Net Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

AUGUST 29, 2006

Customers validate businesses. Often times, that time investment could have been better spent talking to customers or acquiring users. Rather than spending time trying to persuade a VC, wouldnt it be easier to simply say "just ask our customers"? Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

Venture Capital 40

Venture Capital Capital Startup Outsource Development 40

Frank Addante

DECEMBER 22, 2006

Unfortunately, they wordsmith themselves so far away from describing what it actually is that they sell, that their customers or users need a jargon-decoder ring to understand what they do. Customers immediately knew what we did and we established a supreme perspective by adding one descriptive word, "Premium". Lets take a bicycle.

Startup 40

Startup Competition Venture Capital Advertising 40

Frank Addante

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

When working with customers or potential partners, I spend most of the meeting time asking customers questions about their business, their goals, their insight into technology, the market, etc. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Web 2.0 Outsource Development 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

I have found that if an idea is incredibly complex, it inherently requires more time to develop and is harder to explain to customers, users, partners, employees, etc. And if customers, users, partners and employees have a hard time understanding or explaining the idea, then it will eventually fail. Try this: 1.

Startup 40

Startup Outsource Development Product Advertising 40

Frank Addante

DECEMBER 5, 2006

I think our team at L90 was one of the most efficient and customer-focused development teams ever to be assembled. adMonitor delivered over 8 Billion advertisements per month for over 3,000 customers with 99.9% 90% Baked Rule Build 90% of the finished product – then let the customer define what the remaining 10% should look like.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Develop Development Product 40

Frank Addante

AUGUST 14, 2006

Email is ubiquitous, email is ridden with spam, 25% of legitimate email goes undelivered (e-statements, e-commerce transactions, customer service emails, legitimate marketing e-mail), email usage is growing 30%+ per year and the world has been going paperless. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

Startup 40

Startup Email Ideas Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

At Starting Point, 100% of the interaction with our users/customers was via email. Take care of the customer: Good ‘ole fashion customer service works. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Contact the Webmaster.&#

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Yahoo Email 40

Frank Addante

JULY 30, 2007

We didn’t wait for planning meetings, we didn’t discuss strategy, didn’t discuss architecture, didn’t talk to customers, didn’t look at similar or competitive products , didn’t write specs or requirements. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Advertising 40

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Well, my philosophy is that if you keep it from your competition, youre also keeping it from potential users or customers. In trying to hide it from the 5-10 would-be competitors youre also hiding it from thousands or millions of users and customers. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

Startup 40

Startup Ideas Venture Capital Competition 40

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

As a result, we ended up doing a lot of one-off custom work for clients and never really gained traction in any particular area. It will help your company stay focused, it will build confidence in your entire organization (especially your sales/marketing team) and most importantly, your customers/users will think to go to you first.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Advertising Email 40

Frank Addante

JANUARY 30, 2007

On the contrary, enterprise software needs to be fully tested before a release because it typically affects a customers business process. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit For example, a dot.com should require less process than an enterprise software product.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Web 2.0 40

Frank Addante

AUGUST 27, 2007

By that time, we had 3,000+ customers, delivered 8 billion ads a month and reached 65% of the Internet. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit We had a few wooden desks and a desktop computer that served as my personal workstation, our web server and our ad server. But be careful.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Web 2.0 40

Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

But, if I were a publisher or a major network using anything from GoogleClick, Id want to find another supplier of cash registers and coffee machines before someone drives up my rental fee or takes my cash register away (with my customer list and cash still in the drawer). Ahh, maybe Im just being paranoid.

Google 40

Google Advertising Startup Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

We accomplished great things – we signed Intel as a customer and partner, developed a very strong product and generated a fair amount of awareness. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Next on deck: Startup 5.0…

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Advertising 40

Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

I met with my old team from L90, the team that built adMonitor (the advertising platform that delivered billions of ads per month for over 3,000 blue-chip customers, where we had a successful $112 million IPO and then DoubleClick acquired it). Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development 40