socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2012

Los Angeles-based movie site Fandango is expanding its rollout of mobile ticketing, saying this morning that it has added more than 1,400 additional screens across the country to its paperless mobile ticket program. Fandango said that it has added 1,300 Cinemark screens and 100 Regency Theatre screens to its network.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 8, 2012

After its January launch of its player, a tiny wireless USB Roku plug in Streaming Stick™, Roku in partnership with 3M today, unveiled a first of its kind Streaming Projector running on the Roku Streaming Stick, changing big screen forever. Bringing Back Big-Screen. US $30 Billion Sales. Canada, U.K. Canada, U.K.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

The most obvious, is to drive sales. 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. We then have applications, running on tablets and screens, where you can interact.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2012

Los Angeles-based private equity firm The Gores Group said Tuesday that it has acquired the touch screen business of TE Connectivity , in a deal worth $380M in cash. Gores said it acquired TE Connectivity's Touch Solutions business, which supplies touch screens, touch monitors and all-in-one touch computers, under the Elo TouchSystems brand.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2011

This might be a VC meeting but also might just be a sales or biz dev meeting. If you look at Diagram A above you’ll see that the presenters are sitting at the opposite end of the table from where the screen is. The problem is that the people your presenting to are forced to choose between looking at you and looking at the screen.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2013

According to Nimble, the new Nimble Contact App for HootSuite allows users to see and interact with contacts in their Nimble account directly from the main HootSuite screen. nimble hootsuite social media management contact sales software saas' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2010

El Segundo-based iSuppli announced Thursday that it has acquired UK-based Screen Digest , a firm which provides market research covering film, television, broadband media, mobile media, cinema, home entertainment, TV technology and video games. Screen Digest has over 45 analysts and is based in London.

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socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based The Gores Group , the private equity investment firm, reported this morning that it has completed its acquisition of touch screen technology provider TE Connectivity. Gores said that Elo Touch Solutions had sales of $413M in fiscal 2011. The deal was worth $380M in cash. Elo Touch was based in Menlo Park, California.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Irvine-based HireRight , the provider of employment background screening and drug screening services, said this week that it has named Steven Spencer as its Vice President of Transportation Solutions. Spencer has been at the firm since 1999, and was most recently Senior Director of Transportation Sales.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The firm said it has now deployed approximately 11,300 RealD enabled screens, up from the 4,300 screens it had in December of 2009. RealD's revenues are somewhat based on the number of 3D screen showings; the firm takes a cut of 3D ticket sales at theaters. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 13, 2014

GenMark said Mendel joins the company from Active Network, where he had been CFO of the company, up until its sale to Vista Equity. GenMark is a developer of automated, molecular diagnostics testing equipment for detecting disease via DNA screening. He also had previously served at General Electric, in GE''s Healthcare IT division.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Those who are more involved in traditional entertainment are seeing a major shift online which is why an additional one-day seminar was created to coincide with Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood as a partnership called, Idea to Screen. tech community and to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing us in the coming years. See you there!

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Steve Reich

MARCH 13, 2012

This week, I helped a young entrepreneur at a “stealth startup” evaluate his progress on the sales front. This gave him an initial filter to screen candidates. He also interviewed a significant number of individuals to establish his own benchmarks for the specific traits he needed in a sales staff. More closing.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Sales from the Petnostics product helped bootstrap the company through its first few years of development and get its first product onto the market. The company first submitted its product to the Food and Drug Administration for approval in 2015. Now, Scanwell is ready to expand, says Chen. “What’s missing is the diagnostics piece.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

ReachConvert helps notify businesses, in real time, of potential new customers via text message, email, or mobile; the service then automatically sends targeted emails to prospects and helps remind sales staff to follow up those leads. That new service also has pre-negotiated prices, and the vendors are pre-screened and background checked.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Being a radar screen of a buyer helps. Don’t put all your eggs in the “corp dev basket” – often deals are champions by the business units (product or sales). We also are going to talk a lot about startups getting exits and ultimately: Companies are bought, not sold. You need to build relationships early.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

AppFolio supplements its SaaS revenue with add-on services for customers that include background (credit / criminal) screening and credit card processing, both of which generate transactional revenue. For most companies, existing customers are the most economical and lucrative source of incremental sales. Give First, Then Take.

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2009

According to the two, Outcast will be responsible for advertising sales and marketing of the network, and AdtekMedia will provide software and systems development, as well as focus on product and technology innovation. Tags: outcast pumptop adtekmedia advertising station network video screen merger acquisition.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2012

Fandango said the move will give Internet users access to nearly 20,000 screens across the country. Los Angeles-based Fandango announced htis morning that it has scored an exclusive deal with Yahoo , where it will be the exclusive ticket seller for Yahoo! Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

Our first product is called Seed, which is a screening test for male infertility. We've translated that into a screening test, which started offering out in October of last year. The use of the proceedshas really been about ramping up commercialization and sales. We hired a VP of Sales, have been building out a sales team.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. Somehow many first-time founders equate “sales” with something that is beneath them. In sales there are also three rules: Qualify, qualify, qualify.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Hiring requirements must be anticipated and implemented with the same precision and tracking as manufacturing volumes, sales leads, and customer service. Trying to save costs by seeking resumes on the Internet will result in poor quality candidates, more time required for screening and interviews, and high turnover.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

One of the local firms attacking that market is Los Angeles-based FunnelSource (www.funnelsource.com), a developer of software-as-a-service tools that provide analytics to sales teams. Coming out here, I wanted to focus on what my specialty was, which is driving sales as a VP of Sales. What opportunities are hot, or cold?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The process for raising money from a VC is a sales process and as such much of what is taught in enterprise sales can be applied. While this post is written about raising venture capital (which I always remind entrepreneurs IS a sales process) the lessons can be applied to any sale or biz dev deal.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2014

Prior to the digital age, high-profile people deployed brute force to screen out unsolicited, inbound communications. Sam trusted his Assistant to set his calendar and screen out irrelevant encounters. It could be a significant sale to a large enterprise, the opening of a new office, a key hire or a promising partnership.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

Patrick Kennedy: Our customers are very active using our technology and analytics as a solution to increase the content sales from all kinds of customers. What happened with smart phones, is consumers are buying more and more applications, but a screen can only fit a dozen icons. We're really headed for three screens.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

Irvine-based WebVisible , which helps small businesses place online advertising, said this morning it is in a big hiring push, and is immediately looking to hire over 75 employees across sales, IT, software engineering, and product design positions. The firm said it received more than 600 applications from that job fair.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Director of Ad Sales and Business Development , Huntington Beach, Freebinar.com. You can also use socalTECH.com's database of high tech companies in Southern California to locate employers near you, companies which have recently received funding and are likely to hire, or screen for companies in certain industries.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

According to Lehmbeck, in an interview with socalTECH, the company's software takes key specifications from products such as televisions and other consumer electronics, and applies them to ads automatically, so that instead of just advertising a big screen television an ad might contain key terms and information about those products.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The firm said the sale was made in the Asia Pacific region. OSI Systems' products are used for screening out narcotics, weapons, and contraband in trucks and shipping containers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2020

Hiring requirements must be anticipated and implemented with the same precision and tracking as manufacturing volumes, sales leads, and customer service. Trying to save costs by seeking resumes on the Internet will result in poor quality candidates, more time required for screening and interviews, and high turnover.

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Organization Satisfaction Entrepreneur Screening 135

socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2018

Anyone who has ever bought or sold a home is most likely familiar with the Multiple Listings Service (MLS), the big database of homes for sale used by traditional real estate agents. If you just bought a big screen television from Best Buy, it's like you're not going to be buying a new home soon. What are their recent purchases?

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Back in 2013, Google reported that 90 percent of multiple device owners switch between screens to complete tasks, using an average of three different combinations every day. Through screen mirroring, users have greater flexibility over how they view – and share – content. The Continued Growth of Cloud.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

The firm said the 40% discounts would be on "select merchandise"--usually, liquidation sales have a variety of discounts depending on desirability of items. However, the firm said that flat screen and LCD televisions will only be 20% off.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

In the spirit of the “land grab” mentality of the day, we emphasized usage of our screen sharing technology with no thought applied to how we would convert such users into paying customers. We then sorted these email addresses by company and initiated targeted sales campaigns wherever we identified a critical mass of users.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

controlling your psychology ) you no doubt have heard me say that raising capital is a sales & marketing process. This is Sales 101. If you’ve read any of my ongoing series on fund raising from venture capitalist (episode 1?— ?controlling The “A’s” typically don’t have investment authority and Principals it depends firm to firm.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Invest Slides 314

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

The power of large screen real estate. They are more likely to be the “bottom end of the sales funnel” or in other words close to “point of purchase.” I have talked with people in the industry who tell me that mobile movie sites convert ticket sales much higher than desktop websites.

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