socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Nimble's software connects to your email, social accounts, and more, and helps you track your customers, sales prospects, sales pipeline, and much much more. In addition to adding $10 in sales for every reseller, what was most important was we became the number one ISV in NT Server, SQL Server, and Exchange.

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Startup Canoga Park Email Google 113

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We worked together for four years, and I ended up heading up media buying at that company, and he headed up sales. The world here is constantly changing -- particularly with shifts to mobile, Google algorithms, etc. - We became friends, and found we were both very like minded, goal oriented, and had the same core values.

Startup 239

Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Think of web vs. mobile. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. You could look for a VC who has huge wins under his or her belt and therefore has a formula for success. Traditional software vs. SaaS. Connections? FourSquare.

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Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2018

YouTube has broadened its restrictions on gun-related videos, while thousands of Americans are mobilizing to demand stricter gun controls Saturday in a mass march spurred by young survivors of a deadly armed attack on a Florida high school last month.

Demand 52

Demand Mobile Sales Sites 52

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

Rather than taking their hard work and just leveraging it on the web, the pitch is--we'll do this work for you, put reams and reams more metadata around a given movie, sound bite, TV show episode, or video game. We're now doing revenue share on affiliate revenue, doing revenue share on DVD sales, or ads we run against that content.

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Redpoint Startup Content .Net 201

socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2011

There's a lot behind that, but it's really a matter of going out and getting the best deal content, and using the web and community to sift through all of that to put the best deal out there in front of you. We definitely benefited from consumers hungry for a deal and merchants hungry for sales. What's the story behind Savings.com?

Sites 217

Sites Content Sales Demand 217

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. To this day I’m astounded that IBM, Google, Sun, Microsoft and others didn’t offer this service and Amazon did. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a Spread through word-of-mouth as the company has no sales team, all engineers. Competitors: Google (Invite Media) , MediaMath , X+1. a fbFund winner. Current round: $4.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

In late April 2010, VentureBeat published that Blippy credit card numbers were published on Google search: [link] followed by Blippy’s response. Jeremy Liew, a respected VC from LightSpeed, obviously saw the change to ramp up sales. Investors: Google Ventures. Read more: TechCrunch. Wildfire Interactive. 5.0mm in Series B.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

We help web publishers make more money out of advertising. For a big company, that might be through their own sales force, and for a smaller company it might be a small team which is operating the site themselves. Tim Cadogan: At its root, it's pretty simple. We do that in basically two ways. At that point, your options are limited.

OpenX 242

OpenX Advertising Yahoo Pasadena 242

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. When their deep pockets went empty, Google stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

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Startup Course Yahoo Funding 96

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 29, 2011

This Black Friday we reached record retail sales at traditional brick-and-mortar stores, yet the merging Cyber Monday is proving to be a fighting younger brother. As customers shift online, retailers have no choice, to not only follow suit, but to adapt to their changing demands.

Custom 74

Custom Customer Advertising Demand 74

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 26, 2011

This Black Friday we reached record retail sales at traditional brick-and-mortar stores, yet the merging Cyber Monday is proving to be a fighting younger brother. As customers shift online, retailers have no choice, to not only follow suit, but to adapt to their changing demands.

Custom 72

Custom Customer Demand Advertising 72

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

Even the veritable YouTube doesn’t seem to be bearing as much fruit as Google clearly thought it could when it paid $1.65 The largest video social network, Bebo , purchased for $850 million, was just sold by AOL in a “fire sale,” after it lost half its membership of 10 million users last year. billion for the site in 2006.

Hulu 84

Hulu Social Network Blogging Netflix 84

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. . Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? Remember again that the three major steps to a sale are: Why buy anything?

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit. Where does Webtide fit into the software world?

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. In Los Angeles we are at a disadvantage because the founder(s) often have no experience in building consumer web applications. Challenge #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles.

Company 111

Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. Once you start censoring the Web, you restrict the ability to imagine and innovate. The world’s best brains are on sale. He spent a bunch of this time in Canada. Let’s buy more!&#.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The firm is co-founded by Jake Steinfeld, of Body by Jake, and ExerciseTV, and has received investment from prolific angel investor Ron Conway and Polar Capital, the investment firm of former Google President Tim Armstrong. Tim's the current CEO of AOL, and was President of Google at the time. Thanks for talking with us.

Media 168

Media Pricing Sites Training 168

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2012

what you can see with out scrolling down) probably get well over 85-90% of all of the downloads (much like on Google). Download Apps From the Web. But from the development standpoint its really important to note that price / demand elasticity is a very crucial part of succeeding in any app marketplace.

Mobile 82

Mobile Search Engine Optimization SEO Startup 82

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Jon Loyens, Bazaarvoice.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Google. The southern migration is taking place as companies like Google. A substantial portion of Venices real-estate boom is attributable to Google. Like Googles other locations, it offers amenities like a climbing wall and an outdoor movie theater, as well as bicycles and surfboards that can be rented during the workday.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44