socalTECH

MAY 22, 2014

ACTIVE Network said it has signed up the YMCA of the North Shore in Massachusetts and YMCA of the Brandywine Valley in Pennsylvania as customers for the company''s ACTIVE Net cloud platform. San Diego-based sports activity registration and software provider ACTIVE Network reported two wins today at YMCA centers.

Activity 138

Activity Networking SaaS San Diego 138

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2019

With the advent and popularity of crowdfunding platforms, including Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , as a winning alternative for funding your new venture, I find that many aspiring entrepreneurs are confused about the need to ever seek a professional angel investor. Crowdfunding is not the best platform here.

Funding 119

Funding Startup Platform Examples 119

Tech.Co

MARCH 25, 2022

By ensuring their value isn't bloated, the company will net its employees better equity over time. Instacart also launched a new set of digital tools yesterday, “Instacart Platform,” which is designed to help retailers and grocers offer faster fulfilment, get better analytics, and potentially get started with advertising.

Advertising 116

Advertising Tool .Net Google 116

socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2019

Pledgeling has built a technology platform that makes it super easy to integrate charity into their customer experience, and, as we say, grow through giving. The crisis text line was literally sending messages using our platform to save lives. So, when you integrate our platform, how does that drive long term value?

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Software Review Mogreet Platform 113

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

If you are living your passion, you want to interact with customers, and “touch and feel” the product every day. Under all of these, net income flows easily into your personal income. If you think corporate bosses are tough, wait till you start spending investor money, or try satisfying Wall Street and stockholders.

Entrepreneur 148

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Course 148

TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2020

That bid was enough to convince Davita and Martin Macauley, a couple who own a home in Los Angeles’ Gramercy Park neighborhood and are two of United Dwelling’s first customers. “ What was important to me was creating affordable housing,” said United Dwelling founder and chief executive Steven Dietz.

Los Angeles 191

Los Angeles Startup Culver City .Net 191

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

Startup 106

Startup Capital Equity Funding 106

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

If you are looking for funding and customers for your new business, you need to identify your “unique selling proposition” (USP) right up front, in 30 seconds or less, to differentiate yourself in today’s information overload. Investor and customer attention spans are short, and both will write you off quickly.

.Net 73

.Net Examples Custom Customer 73

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

Sales 282

Sales Demand San Diego Funding 282

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

Funding 174

Funding Startup Equity Examples 174

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon. If this figure is accurate – it’s certainly a very large business even when you look at net revenues. Its net income for the 2009 period is $11.66

Clearstone 236

Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2012

One way is getting funding from your potential customers. Wil Schroter: We're a crowd-funding platform for startups. They're raising money from friends, family, customers, equity from strategic partners, and former colleagues. The best way is through customers, the other way is through equity. What's Fundable?

Startup 223

Startup Equity Venture Capital Ideas 223

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. Now we have a thousand large companies into it, and if you name a big company, they're a customers of ours, from Starbucks to NASA. Richards also has been an active angel investor in local startups. What is CareerArc? That's been very effective.

Content 193

Content Social Network Coach Help 193

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

In a collaborative effort, Ria Consulting, LLC and Los Angeles Net Developers Group are hosting this event on November 10th, 2012 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. Jason also spearheads customer-driven, innovative features and functionality throughout all of infragistics’ products.

JavaScript 93

JavaScript Long Beach Java .Net 93

Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 15, 2019

The telecommunications industry is under increasing pressure as customers demand high speeds and data transport, as well as implementing big data initiatives for their businesses. The faster the speeds and the higher the quality of your offerings, the more customers you’ll win and retain. Expand your coverage. Dark Fiber.

SoCal 55

SoCal Southern California Help Services 55

Steve Reich

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The company builds a SaaS mobile banking platform for community banks. The core idea is very simple—give community banks a powerful, customizable platform that allows bank customers to bank via their smartphones. One of his early investors is a key banking software provider with hundreds of customers. The net result?

Startup 65

Startup SaaS Platform .Net 65

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

I want to understand how many units the company is selling, whether this is increasing over time and how well they’re doing at retaining the customers that they do acquire. Do 20% of the customers make 80% of the revenue or do the top 3 customers represent 80% of the revenue. My first priority is to understand “growth drivers.”

Startup 227

Startup Venture Capital Sales Course 227

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

That business includes our main registrar platform, which supports 20,000 resellers around the world, and also includes such acquisition as we''ve done such as name.com, domain auctions with Namejet, and a bunch of other activities. We''re also partnering with companies like Donuts to provide a platform to host their registry.

Demand 231

Demand HTML Web Media 231

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Funding 96

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

CapLinked, Cloud-based enterprise platform for deal management and investor reporting, Wednesday announced a new suite of enterprise features in a move to take transactions mobile. But a lack of competition has also lead to a lack of innovation, resulting in low customer satisfaction and frequent complaints of difficult-to-use products.

Mobile 91

Mobile Report Pricing Tool 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2019

If you are living your passion, you want to interact with customers, and “touch and feel” the product every day. Under all of these, net income flows easily into your personal income. If you think corporate bosses are tough, wait till you start spending investor money, or try satisfying Wall Street and stockholders.

Startup 77

Startup Equity Entrepreneur Course 77

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2011

We looked at online photo marketing, and what the real needs are out there, and launched our platform last year, aimed at helping photographers publish and perfect their art. Finally, I decided it was time to remove the safety net, and had an idea of my own to pursue, so I started by own company.

Westlake Village 164

Westlake Village Yahoo Commerce Social Network 164

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

Funding 107

Funding Startup Equity Examples 107

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

” It goes like this: What is your net burn rate? And the truth is that I think this is just a harbinger of what we will see in the private markets very, very soon. Today I called it, “our own little VC led, portfolio-by-portfolio company version of RIP Good Times from 7 years ago.” What is your cash balance?

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Slides Capital Funding 150

InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

The more a customer utilized WebEx’s services, the more they had to pay. They knew that price restructuring would significantly impair their gross revenues as well as their net income, which would dramatically impact their stock price. WebEx was the early leader in web meetings. A typical 60-minute meeting with one attendee cost $54.

Entrepreneur 225

Entrepreneur SaaS Pricing Cloud Computing 225

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

Startup 113

Startup Entrepreneur Funding Equity 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2017

If you are living your passion, you want to interact with customers, and “touch and feel” the product every day. Under all of these, net income flows easily into your personal income. If you think corporate bosses are tough, wait till you start spending investor money, or try satisfying Wall Street and stockholders.

Entrepreneur 69

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Course 69

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

AGN was sold to Net-TV pioneer Pseudo Programs and Rubin served as VP of Games and Sports programming. As President of Game Development and Operations at SGN, a leading cross platform game developer and distributor, Josh Yguado is responsible for development, marketing, and operations for all games. Custom ad deals and partnerships.

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 94

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Along the way many things came together: being able to find the right people, getting great customers, having lots of luck, being in the right place at the right time. But throughout the transition I had my safety net. From day one we focused on customers. One key decision early on was that RightScale needed to become big fast.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Wondering how, as a small business, you can reach customers in the YouTube age? Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. Where do those videos get distribute? Sam Rogoway: Yes, it has.

Networking 150

Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2013

If you are living your passion, you want to interact with customers, and “touch and feel” the product every day. Under all of these, net income flows easily into your personal income. If you think corporate bosses are tough, wait till you start spending investor money, or try satisfying Wall Street and stockholders.

Startup 92

Startup Entrepreneur Equity Course 92

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2012

Developers were allowed to code in any language they were most comfortable with including Objective C, Java, Javascript, HTML, C #, Dot Net, and XNA. They created a platform for communication between family members who has a loved one admitted in the hospital. There were many cool apps created over that weekend.

Hollywood 82

Hollywood Mobile HTML JavaScript 82

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Such offers often come from a larger company once the startup begins to gain traction with customers and prove its value proposition. Take Home Pay – All that matters is the amount of money you net, not the size of the initial offer. Some companies are predicated on a feature, rather than a full-fledged product.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Acquisition Pricing .Net 124

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Such offers often come from a larger company once the startup begins to gain traction with customers and prove its value proposition. Take Home Pay – All that matters is the amount of money you net, not the size of the initial offer. Some companies are predicated on a feature, rather than a full-fledged product.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Acquisition Pricing 124

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

I recall being impressed with Jeff, but I was concerned that he was creating a platform, which often requires a significant amount of capital, takes an extended amount of time to establish and can be subject to margin pressure as the enabling technologies become commoditized. John Greathouse <john *@ *.com> com> 4/25/08.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

If you are living your passion, you want to interact with customers, and “touch and feel” the product every day. Under all of these, net income flows easily into your personal income. If you think corporate bosses are tough, wait till you start spending investor money, or try satisfying Wall Street and stockholders.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Course 96