socalTECH

JUNE 26, 2020

The company said that both the City of South Gate City Hall and the City of San Joaquin in California have adopted its customer interaction management (CIM) tool, which it says virtually eliminates the need for lines and waiting rooms. QLess is led by CEO Kevin Grauman; the company has been around since 2007. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2016

All In Media has offices in London and Sydney, and was founded in 2007; the companies said its customers include Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Bauer Media Group, Nova Entertainment, NRK, Primedia, Radioplayer, RTE Radio, Southern Cross Austereo and Wireless Group. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

As noted in Pour and Stir Part I , the key to the successful execution of this strategy is managing the following equation: The cost to acquire a customer < lifetime value of a customer. Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. This is equivalent to being handed a free customer for every ten customers you acquire.

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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. In fact, the lessons we learned allowed us to effectively convert the majority of our 50,000 free GoToMyPC Beta users into paying customers.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. We help our customers weave together all the data across all of their data streams,” Lunsford said.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Calabasas-based online travelbooking site CheapAir.com , in what looks to be the first by a travel company, wil let its customers pay on installment for an air flight, through a partnership with financial services technology provider Affirm. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Up 33% this year, according to the Washington Post, online commerce is trending upwards from $175 billion in 2007 to a projection of $335 billion in 2012 (Forrester Research). As customers shift online, retailers have no choice, to not only follow suit, but to adapt to their changing demands.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

Los Angeles-based CheckAlt , the provider of remote deposit capture and e-check services, mobile payment, and other related services, has added three credit unions as customers, the company said this week. Stern founded Vintage Filings, which he sold to PRNewswire in 2007. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2015

Green Dot said the patent relates to its use of geolocation for creating customized user experiences, as well as for risk management and fraud prevention. Pernikoff as inventors, and was filed by Green Dot way back in July of 2007. The patent names Samuel H. Altman, Nicholas T. Sivo, Mark Jacobstein, Brian R. Knapp, James F.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Up 33% this year, according to the Washington Post, online commerce is trending upwards from $175 billion in 2007 to a projection of $335 billion in 2012 (Forrester Research). As customers shift online, retailers have no choice, to not only follow suit, but to adapt to their changing demands.

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Eric Greenspan

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

In 2007, my company negotiated an unprecedented marketing agreement with Verizon to sell their FiOS and in turn their technicians in the field would refer Make It Work services to their customers. We thought this would bring us many new customers. Being wrong does feel like something. It seemed like a perfect fit.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

After that, I had the opportunity to move to Australia in 2007, and joined a venture capital firm called Starfish Ventures. In 2007, the cleantech excitement was in full swing. Back when I was doing energy investing in 2007, there were only 7 gigawatts of solar power world wide. You then caught things like Web 2.0,

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2020

For example, you may think that disruptive smartphones were an overnight sensation, but in reality, it took huge investments by several different companies starting in 1992, including IBM, Apple, and Google, before the market really took off in 2007. Target viable customer segments overlooked by competitors.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

They typically have specific budgets lined up, and they're looking for ways to diversity, and also access new customers. I sold that business in late 2007, right before the debt crisis, and sold it to a public company in Australia. Our core competency is focusing on high quality customers to our advertisers.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Dex One said it will continue to manage the Business.com site and support existing customers through an extended transition period. Business.com had been the latest success for Southern California entrepreneur Jake Weinbaum, who built the firm from a domain name into a firm with over $50M in revenues in 2007.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

iChange offers up a site for personal counseling from licensed nutritionists, combined with custom meal plans and support groups. MacFarlane is the former CEO of InsiderPages, which he sold to Citysearch in 2007. Source of the new funding was not disclosed.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

Songin has been at RealD since 2007. Songin will be based in Europe, and oversee sales, customer service, and Cinema operations for the firm there. Mayson has been at RealD since 2008, and previously served at Kodak. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Los Angeles-based Oversee.net is in the midst of a major scandal today, as the firm revealed to customers that its SnapNames unit was the victim of a shill bidding scheme by a former employee. Industry publications are reporting that the former employee is now facing criminal charges for the shill bidding scheme.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The lawsuit is the second against Oversee.net, which revealed in November that it had uncovered a scheme by one of its employees to increase bids in SnapNames domain name auctions, which allows customers to bid on expired or expiring domain names. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Donnelly in 2007. That was a really fast stint, we started with only a couple of small customers but ended up taking it to $120K MRR and sold it to Home Depot at a significant multiple above revenue. The reason why, is my experience is in early stage sales and more specifically, in early stage customer development.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2009

The firm said the new software includes an enhanced user interface, new support for Indonesian/English and Pashtu/English translation, and better support for document formats, including Office 2007 and Open Office. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. That’s ok, their customers adore them, their revenues speak volumes to this and we’re totally fine to back some of the plumbing that makes businesses online work more effectively. I know you’ve never heard of Kyriba and many of you have never heard of Invoca.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 30, 2016

Never Gonna Give You Up ’s resurgence began in 2007, when a user on an obscure gaming site posted a link to Rick’s video under the heading for a trailer of the not-yet-released Grand Theft Auto IV video game. According to marketing guru Guy Gabriele, brands live in the minds of customers and prospects. Find out what they think.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2019

Some people call this the emergence and development of a new type of leader, called the algorithmic leader, who can steer the course through the world of big data, machine learning, and the constantly changing demands of new customers and social trends. He anticipated his future customers and what they might want.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Copyright © 2007-10 by J. He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses. _. — Get real world advice from John Greathouse, Subscribe Today. —. Meredith Publishing. All rights reserved.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

So that we’re speaking the same language I would define “exclusive” as a period in which your company is prohibited from doing business with certain customers or business partners, which is why many incorrectly assume this is necessarily bad. Why Exclusivity Matters to Your Customers or Business Development Partners.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

The company was founded in 2007, and the initial emphasis was to deliver to end users a personalized content portal on their smart phone, learning what they like anticipate what they'd like to see, and pay for it using personalized advertising. So carriers are a major customer of yours? Why is that important for your customers?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2009

The firm told socalTECH that the boost came both because it has been more aggressive in search engine marketing, and a new travel deals newsletter which has driven customers to return to the site. LowFares.com is managed by Greg Samson; Oversee acquired LowFares.com in January of 2007. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

The privately held firm, which develops software used by companies to reconcile their balance sheets, said it had an increase in revenues of 45 percent, and three times the number of customers signed versus the same quarter last year. in 2007, and nearly $5M in 2008, according to numbers from the Inc. 500 list.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We spoke with one of those companies-- El Segundo-based ConsumerTrack (www.consumertrack.com)--which is a $30M, bootstrapped an online marketing company which is driving millions of customers to big name, financial customers. We rode that wave through 2007, until the housing market crashed, and we had to adapt.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

It helped me avoid chasing deals (and a house) in 2007/08 and it led to GRP’s fastest pace of investment in many years in the first three quarters of 2009 at a time when many others weren’t investing. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008. The deal was done in late 2007.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Aliso Viejo-based Buy.com is continuing to report good sales this holiday season, saying today that it has seen its revenues grow over 40 percent for the first 15 days of December, compared with 2007. Buy.com also reported that average customer orders are up by over 20 percent due to bigger purchases.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

in the similar quarter in 2007. The firm said that the global financial crisis has results in "sharply reduced demand" for semiconductors, which has affected the firm's customers. Cohu, which detailed the cost cutting moves as part of its quarterly results, said its sales dropped to $41.4M

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2016

Not since the initial popularity of Twitter in 2007 has a product so befuddled people. Now here is the important thing for you to understand — many of my target customers — entrepreneurs between ages 21–35 — are on Snapchat! Today I’ve made all of them available on Snapstorms.com. Why would a VC do that? Snapchat is faster and easier.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He bought a one-bedroom condo that sold for $267,000 in 2007 for $19,000 in cash and realized that the market was ripe for the taking. Sundae’s rapid growth is a testament to their differentiated offering and the trusted brand they’ve created through a customer-centric approach to the market.”.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2013

We''ve put a spin on this, where you can use your own personalization or custom designs for your own Bluetooth headset, just like you would create a personalized case for your smartphone. For fifteen years, I owned four dry cleaners in Irvine, and sold those in 2007. Where''d the idea for the company come from? The market is changing.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Net Promoter Scores (NPS) are the darling of many Big Dumb Company (BDC) product marketing and customer support executives. Created by consultants to generate additional fees, such scores attempt to rate a company’s overall customer satisfaction. The higher your company’s NPS, allegedly the higher your customer satisfaction.

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