InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

If online retailing is one of the most tumultuous and fast-changing corners of the Internet, the growth of marketing technologies that retailers use to serve their customers and to personalize their shopping experience has been an even wilder ride. The differentiator is going to be customer experience.”.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM). Custom ad deals and partnerships. MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo! Contact us at sponsor@techzulu.com.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. They hit the coveted one million user milestone and within two years a billion tweets had been sent on the platform. What Twitter looked like soon after launch in 2006. It had strong platform usage.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

We've set out to enable that across any platform, live, during games. We started in 2006, with an in-venue trial at the Alamo Bowl, where we gave out prizes and coupons. Jose daVeiga: In 2006, we started developing the concept, consisting of a PA announcement and a Jumbotrom image. Explain what you mean by in-venue?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

ESPN, Forbes, AOL were customers. Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. It is important to leverage the fastest growing platforms but anticipate changing terms of service. Mark and Richard go on to talk about platforms, timing, and simple reiterative product design.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Founded in London in 2006, the Hub is a global network of social enterprises with each individual chapter acting as a gathering place for innovation, technology, creativity, and positive change. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Social Enterprise: Hub LA.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

I backburnered the concept until 2006, and in May of 2006 put the business together. Their idea was to catch enough consumers to scale, but they didn't understand the cost of acquisition, of finding customers, marketing, and advertising. Thanks for the interview, and good luck!

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

introNetworks is still going strong and has some of the biggest customers in the world, like NASA and McCann World Group. Every good entrepreneur dreams really big, and we're planning on having 1 percent of 37 million brands on our platform. We were even funded back in 2006 by Adobe, to move over to Flex.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Our platform has teraflops of computation power, which enables the performance to track the sensors. We did market studies, talked to customers, and launched a prototype in 2006, launching the company in 2008. It was strategic to get Proctor and Gamble, and Kraft Foods to be customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. We don’t fry it (unhealthy). We don’t bake it (undelicious).

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. We don’t fry it (unhealthy). We don’t bake it (undelicious).

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

In 2005/2006, I really saw that the trend was shifting from television to the Internet. You'll be able walk around with and chat with people, and earn points in the in-world currency within the game, but you can't spend that currency on purchasing items for your avatar, customizing your avatar, or your home, until you become a premium member.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Joey Flores – Co-Founder and CEO of Earbits. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

If you’re not going to release the features a large customer is expecting you’d better be prepared to call that customer yourself and take the bullets in stead of your VP of Sales. In my experience it takes a really self-confident and resilient individual to make all of these tough judgment calls on a daily basis.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

I first attended SxSW in 2006, and was blown away. Stop Listening to Your Customers. A common assumption among startup entrepreneurs is that listening to potential customers is the best. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Customers, research, startups. . How to (Ethically) Profit From Your Customer's Insecurities.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. We had over 3,000 customers, delivered over 8 billion e-mails and online advertisements per month and reached over 65% of the Internet population through our technology (adMonitor). ► March (2) 4. Build a SWAT team 3.

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Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

► 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ► March (2) 4. Build a SWAT team 3. Virtual Location, Location, Location ► January (2) 2.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. ► March (2) 4. Build a SWAT team 3.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

The “official” date is June 9 th , 2006 — for those that are curious about such things). 0160; If I need $250,000 to get to 100 customers, or $1 million to get to X, and I can raise both amounts from either Angels or VCs, where do we turn? They ignore/disrespect the platform. Customer Care Today. What do you think?

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