Berkonomics

APRIL 2, 2020

late 1960’s (yes, I know, a long time ago), there were 31 phonograph record manufacturing plants in Southern California alone. A more modern example. Email readers, continue here…] Here it is, not so many years later, and the signs are more subtle yet, but the speed of obsolescence is much faster. First, in the.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

He’s done several startups and is a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (which is where I met him originally). A day might include a discussion with a finance partner, an investor, a customer or a fusion partner. Our new customer acquisition has grown and our costs have plummeted.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 30, 2010

Thursday, August 5, 2010 -- CommNexus Presents:Follow the Customer How Marketing Must Adapt to New Markets and New Revenue Opportunities. In order to survive, they often need to shift their strategies and target customer base. As companies evolve the business landscape can change dramatically.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

Last week, Pasadena-based Punchcard (www.punchcard.com) launched its mobile apps, which help local retailers provide rewards to loyal customers. It provides consumer rewards, and on the merchant side, it allows them to identify local customers and reacquire them by pushing them offers and incentives to come back.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

We're the official mobile app for whatever our customer is. For example, we're the official mobile app of UCLA, even though behind the scenes is actually Hopscotch. We've built an open architecture, so we can pull in the latest and greatest technology. Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop.

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Steve Reich

JUNE 11, 2012

This is not an article about the high moral purpose and the nobility of listening to your customers. It is an article about how to make your company worth a fortune by listening to your customers. Why do so many of us have iPhones? It gives the best customer experience of any phone. Why does Google dominate search?

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Southern California Edison Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

Usually, customers leveraging optical networks receive a dedicated wavelength of light solely for their use, which keeps their data transfers fast and private. For example, businesses leveraging those networks can quickly scale up capacity to combat slower data transfer speeds or to address traffic bottlenecks. . High Security.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 31, 2013

And that certainly counts for customers too, although the customer jungle drums don’t communicate quite as fast as the virtual water cooler system, even with today’s many ways of posting negative reviews about company behavior. It takes only one time caught by subordinates to lose the faith of an entire group of faithful followers.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

Usually, customers leveraging optical networks receive a dedicated wavelength of light solely for their use, which keeps their data transfers fast and private. For example, businesses leveraging those networks can quickly scale up capacity to combat slower data transfer speeds or to address traffic bottlenecks. High Security.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

This should be an iterative process with advisors and customers providing feedback on the product. For example, if you are trying to determine viral coefficient (see Startup Metrics ), then the focus should be around those aspects of the MVP. You likely are writing your first one of these. Don't stress over format.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2020

Carey Ransom: I've been involved in more than ten different software and services, fintech startups and growth stage companies in Southern California since the early 20000. As an example, a whole set of capabilities we call the necessary but not strategic things, such as accounting, HR, legal, really that administrative infrastructure.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

Usually, customers leveraging optical networks receive a dedicated wavelength of light solely for their use, which keeps their data transfers fast and private. For example, businesses leveraging those networks can quickly scale up capacity to combat slower data transfer speeds or to address traffic bottlenecks. High Security.

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Services Organization Southern California Networking 52

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

For today's interview, we spoke to Dave Eastman, the Director of the Viterbi Startup Garage, a startup incubator that is run by the University of Southern California, out of its location in Marina Del Rey. What we do, is regional customer discovery for teams, typically academic. It's not entirely exclusive, however.

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Marina Del Rey Startup USC Incubator 150

Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 2, 2019

Customers are demanding denser coverage and higher speeds in expanding areas. T-Mobile and Sprint, for example, invested billions of dollars in 2017 to bring 5G service to customers in the US by 2019.¹. The demands on carriers are consistently changing as customers search for higher performing services.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2019

Matt Kozlov: We created this program, because there has been lots of recent advances in the growth of the commercial, military, and civil space economy here in our backyard in Southern California. For example, we have a company using autonomous drones for both aerial and terrestrial, GPS-denied harsh environments.

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Berkonomics

MAY 16, 2013

First, in the late 1960’s (yes, I know, a long time ago), there were 31 phonograph record manufacturing plants in Southern California alone. Email readers, continue here.] Here it is, not so many years later, and the signs are more subtle yet, but the speed of obsolescence is much faster. By 1975, there were only two.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

The company recently landed a major contract from Southern California Edison (SCE) to deploy thousands of the company's "Ice Bear" equipment--enough to store 25.6 These Ice Bear units are all networked and linked into control systems, and communicate with the web, where they can be remotely controlled and monitored by our customer.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Here at OIX, what we've done, is purpose built a cloud-based solution that allows customers to find those tax credits and incentives, and incentive discovery database. There were lots of deals flowing my way, because Southern California is a hopping market, and I've had a lot of success in my career.

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socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

We are also pushing out updates all the time to our customers. One of our customers has 6,500 separate and distinct applications. We notice there are quite a few open source companies, like yourself, here in Southern California, and in the Los Angeles area. A good example of that is Ceph.

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Southern California Edison Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Nationally known providers are often the default choice, but can lack key capabilities and the dedication to customer success. For example, as your company’s employees and customer needs expand and change, you may need to transition from dedicated internet access to wavelength services. Local Customer Service.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We also included existing investors we have locally in Southern California. The easiest example is for an online banking system. For example, when someone makes an account takeover attempt, theyll often try to use a series of fraudulent credentials to take over an individuals account. Were excited about both angles.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2020

What is the company doing here in Southern California? You had Wi-Fi, you had Bluetooth, you had Zigbee, and that is so crowded, to have devices communicate there in that frequency band, there is always contention. An example of this is security cameras. This particular standard was solidified to really solve that gap.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2013

com) recently scored a round of funding from such notable investors as Data Collective, Brad Jones of Redpoint Ventures, Horizon Ventures, and TenOneTen Ventures, the new Southern California venture capital firm headed by Gil Elbaz and David Waxman. A few examples of what we''ve done, is we do instant search. SRCH2 (www.srch2.com)

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

I kept thinking that someone would eventually come up with a hub or place you could do everything--a home page, for example, where if you were going on a trip, and you could easily load your iPad full of stuff automatically. That would be movies that were best for me, what music albums I should download. That''s why I moved here.

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Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2012

How to you better convert web visitors into customers? Jerry Jao, the CEO of Retention Science, tells us how the firm is using big data to help e-commerce firms convert more customers. Jerry Jao: Retention Science is a Big Data and e-commerce platform, where we help engage customers. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2013

It seems like there are more and more electric vehicles on the road every day--particularly here in Southern California. With electricity everywhere, we enable the last mile so that anyone with a parking lot or parking space, can be the fueling provider of the future for transportation. Jordan Ramer: It depends on the customer.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2012

If you're a business, what's the best way to send out phone calls and text, and communicate with your customers via phone? One way is to automate the process, which is what Los Angeles-based CallFire has been helping its business customers with. It just offers another way for businesses to communicate with their customers.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 2, 2017

INTERFACE addresses these IT issues through informative, non-sales oriented, educational seminars customized to the specific needs of the local business community. It’s critical to stay current with the technology that runs your organization and secures your operational infrastructure.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Southern California--despite the lack of huge, name brand firms-- has a significant number of enterprise software companies, of which Network Automation is just one. Our marquis customers are companies like Citibank and Lowe's Corporation, along with many others. Can you give a concrete example of how that might work?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The startup--which offers up a wide range of branded, Visa cards--is one of a growing number of finance related technology startups in Southern California. Ben Katz: Our customer is basically anyone who trusts their smart phone enough to bank in the cloud. Almost all of our customers interact with us through their phone screen.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. Organic Academia.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

On the customer side, we have companies like Samsung, GE, Kaiser Permanente, Accenture. For example, Cirro is a data federation engine, which links big data with corporate data in a very effective eway. Let's say we saw an idea coming from a major partner, a customer like Samsung or someone like that. It's been great.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2020

A few weeks ago, Help With Black Equity (www.helpwithblackequity.com) launched an effort to help connect volunteers with efforts to help with addressing racial disparities, including here in Southern California. Organically, we started getting approached by companies and realized that Corporate Social Responsibility is a real thing.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Example here: [link]. For example you say: Vince: Ignited Managers thrive because of their unique ability to connect and leverage their informal networks for the good of the company. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? Tony: So how do you do this and still have dinner at home?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2014

It was founded by Paul Sidlo, who is from Los Angeles, and it''s very much a Southern California company. We believe tha restaurant customers are multi-channel nowadays. We have actually develops all of those channels, which enables a customer to pick any channel and enable an order, digitally or through a call center.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Before I jump into the 28 questions, let me start with 14 questions that I will want to go through first so I know a bit more about what we are talking about. Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? What are some good examples of similar sites? What’s their specific need / pain? Refer a friend?

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