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. Carriers are certainly a big class of customer, and we also have content aggregators, who are aggregating games, news and information, mobile applications, and web sites.

Content 189

Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

On a phone call it’s too easy to be distracted and thumb through paperwork, stare out the window or glance at your computer screen. I always tell people that fund raising is a sales process. You can’t remember why you loved somebody over the phone. It doesn’t have the same energy or chemistry. Your job is to break the convention.

Software Review 381

Software Review Startup Email Conference 381

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. with the clips.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2012

We have a very visual marketplace, that for the mobile and web, lets people show their closets, garages, homes, and stores. People will see things for sale based on their location, anywhere in their neighborhood, and around the country. We do the same thing on the web, making selling really easy. What is HipSwap?

Mobile 157

Mobile Los Angeles Web Southern California 157

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Sites like KickStarter have for years offered rewards and pre-sales for crowd investments, but real equity won’t be legalized until sometime this year for people other than accredited investors. Social mobile web. Responsive web technology that re-sizes text and images to fit any screen is the norm with new websites.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Startup Web Equity 109

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world. A real simple example, is someone comes to register for a particular web service, puts their name, and contact information into a site, and our clients asks them for a valid phone number. That ended up as a $200 million sale to Microsoft.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

Edward Park: My background is screen printing and production. My previous company did production runs for small clothing lines, promos, and trade show giveaways, and one of the things we realized it's such a volume industry, and the technology of screen printing has been around for 10,000 years, developed by the Egyptians and the Chinese.

Startup 174

Startup Commerce Web 2.0 Screening 174

Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Pitching at a screening in slow months can result in delayed response from investors or even lack of interest at lightly attended screenings. ” Other groups, such as Tech Coast Angels, allow entrepreneurs to sit in on screenings to get a better understanding of the process. The group invested $8.7 million in 2010.

Tips 100

Tips Capital Tech Coast Angels Screening 100

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

Nordstrom sales reps are trained to do this to, but of course they can’t know every customer that walks around the store. Banner ads were never very effective on web pages so it baffles me that it’s the preferred method of advertising today on mobile devices. To be clear, that is excluding the sales uplift from the calls.

Mobile 329

Mobile Advertising Media Marketing 329

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Do you screen all of the documents on the marketplace, or how does that work? Jason Nazar: We screen the profiles, but we don't screen the content. We want to make sure the marketplace is for professional content, so we screen to make sure the seller is a professional or small business owner, or a startup or entrepreneur.

Technical Review 171

Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

Eric Greenspan

APRIL 9, 2013

It’s a flat screen. ” Another issue that has plagued Best Buy’s image is the add-on sale that became a focus at the register. Imagine entering the store and joining a discussion or class on Photoshop, web development or replacing a hard disk. Lets switch gears to home theater. The picture is solid.

Pricing 229

Pricing Course Technology Screening 229

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 15, 2012

The voice technology enables a driver to dictate a phone call, an email or SMS, edit it or read (listen) and respond to emails and SMS texts received without the touch of a button or touch screen. Users can also get directions for local businesses, search the web or ‘play’ a song from a particular artist. Mobile office assistant.

Email 61

Email Technical Review Software Review Mobile 61

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

I started with a list of companies already screened by the San Diego Venture Group’s annual venture summit, and consulted with investors and startup mentors to refine the list. Tim Rueth, a UC San Diego entrepreneur in residence and member of the EvoNexus selection committee, also screened the list, and offered his perspective.

San Diego 40

San Diego Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Startup 40

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. He started targeting the ad by location and interest, and the number of potential people he was reaching began decreasing on screen (Facebook tells you dynamically). they have purchasing intent ).*. MongoDB at Etsy - Code as Craft , May 19, 2010 Hi! Should I Get My MBA?

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Time will tell. Founded in 2007.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Instead, we’ve matured and grown our technologies and sales infrastructure to a point where the intersection between where we are and where we want to be is perfect to facilitate growth. . They’ve expanded their sales and operations from Santa Monica to include New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, and Atlanta.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Advertising Google Screening 76

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 Sunil Rajaraman: We provide free, web-based screenwriting software to aspiring writers and professionals in the community. One is that any producer of a short video on the web, or any producer of any content, can use out to find their desired content. What's Scripped?

Content 138

Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

The Black Tux online tuxedo rental, which is reinventing the customer experience in the antiquated $10B+ tuxedo rental and sales industry. The Blayze network already reaches or 200 million viewers and has generated thousands in sales. Within three months, Panjo has achieved hundreds of thousands in monthly gross merchandise sales.

Class 100

Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

When we first alpha tested this, we just had watchable entertainment, movies and TV, many of them popping up in second screen apps. Each of them has different programs, but we get four to ten percent of a sale. When we started this, we were a web-based platform, because that''s what made the most sense when we started.

Entertainment 206

Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

The first big wave of this change came from the introduction of the iPhone, which was the first well built mobile device for using the web. You can also compare how in-app purchases perform vs. cross-promoting the other apps you may have for sale. Optimization also helps you optimize ad sales if you’re doing pure advertising.

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

Eric Greenspan

APRIL 9, 2013

It’s a flat screen. ” Another issue that has plagued Best Buy’s image is the add-on sale that became a focus at the register. Imagine entering the store and joining a discussion or class on Photoshop, web development or replacing a hard disk. Lets switch gears to home theater. The picture is solid.

Pricing 100

Pricing Course Technology Screening 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

When tickets went on sale over a month ago, we expected the regular ticket sales cycle, however we were more than surprised when Startup Weekend LA sold out in 6 hours! Also of note was Ryan Orrico’s launch of HandJob, a new form of job applicant screening and referral tracking.

Los Angeles 73

Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Looking towards at the end of this year or early next year for our first outside seed round and plan out to build an Android and web version and do marketing and sales. The bigger screen, the better. Any opinions on the “phablets” you see on the market? AM: I think for video they are great.

Startup 106

Startup Design Mobile Software Review 106

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Their all new all electric car is set to be released for sale in limited quantities at the end of 2011. The Spotlight is shining down these amazing LA companies! wonder what that might be?

CalTech 100

CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

Once that a product has made that initial screen, we look further, to make sure it's also cost effective and easy to live with. For lack of a better word, it's really social shopping--not in the way of using social networking to drive sales, but because moms are social, to allow them to share information regularly online.

Software Review 200

Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Because I built two SaaS companies and sold my second one to Salesforce.com (where I then took on the role of VP Products) I am often asked to look at SaaS and/or sales-oriented deals for others. I don’t personally invest in angel deals in the web/tech space because of potential conflict with USV down the road.

Guide 293

Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

I was watching Meet the Press this morning and they put a big screen behind the guests with TweetDeck open and showing the constant stream of information about Egypt. My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, I was baffled.

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 384

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Today is the day Solaborate is publicly launching a beta-version of their platform on the web with an iOS and Android mobile apps for those on the road. I was with SAP America for about 7 years heading different roles such as consulting, product management, and sales. I was very inefficient at doing my job with the lack of tools.

Social Media 92

Social Media Social Network Tool Mobile 92

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

I was watching Meet the Press this morning and they put a big screen behind the guests with TweetDeck open and showing the constant stream of information about Egypt. My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, I was baffled.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 176

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Through having communities center themselves around common interests (genre, artists, even outside interests like Minecraft) content would naturally be screened for relevancy. They emphasized community management over other “typical” first-hires (administrative, sales, etc.). ” Plug.DJ Strikes Chord s.

Startup 107

Startup Product Sites Tool 107

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

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Matt McKinney is the Founder of TiesForCharity.com, a trendy tie company that donates a percentage of each tie sale to unique charities. He is currently CEO of ThisWeekIn.com , a web television network he co-founded with Jason Calacanis and comedian/actor Kevin Pollak. to the masses… This is how The Grilled Cheese Truck was born!

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

He spent nearly five years at each of Salesforce.com and Oracle and was an Area VP at Salesforce leading sales efforts at some of the largest clients that Salesforce.com has. The heads of sales operations were emphatic in ways I have seldom experienced. You might want to ask, “What is the Q3 sales forecast for the central region?”

Software 105

Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

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. It’s the input screens where we enter data or search requests. No wonder people had to raise $5 million just to get started back then. We raised $16.5

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The “second screen&# – One of the most exciting developments in television & media to me will be “second screen&# technologies built initially on iPads and extended to the plethora of devices we’ll see over the next 3-5 years. Will we discover stuff through second-screen apps? Imagine that world.

Content 386

Content Google Media Hulu 386