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. Enter the famous Sequoia “RIP Good Times” presentation and Ron Conway’s publicly leaked emails calling for big slashes in burn rates.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

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.

.Net 182

.Net Satisfaction Entrepreneur Customer 182

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2016

We caught up with founder and CEO Mike Mothner --who we first interviewed back in 2007 --to catch up with the company, gets some hints and tips on growing a company, the challenges of bootstrapping, and why Wpromote hopes to be buying more companies in the future. It's a customer centric world. Now, it's long, and complex.

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Acquisition Paid Search El Segundo SEO 100

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.

.Net 168

.Net Satisfaction Customer Custom 168

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. I grew it from 2007 through. myself and two women who do customer service and tech support for me via phone and email. You could handle all the details of printing, framing things, collecting payments, dealing with shipping, and.

Santa Monica 258

Santa Monica Pricing Sites Sales 258

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. 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. From day one we focused on customers.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. That tool is being used to drive traffic and acquire emails, which is why it's a part of Deal Current. We were crowd sourcing artists and design.

Platform 263

Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Customers – Similar to VARs, BDC customers who believe that your solution will add value to a BDC’s offering also make effective Escorts. Even the most ineffective and dysfunctional BDCs tend to listen to their customers. This process requires you to wait to see if an email bounces before attempting another iteration.

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Company Companies Email Press 124

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Where LinkedIn Works for Me Ive been a long time user of LinkedIn , but only recently have started getting the benefits I always expected. Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Mark Tapling: Since you last did an in depth interview with us in 2007, the company has doubled in size. Originally, you had a lot of government customers, and were just starting out with a few commercial customers. That evolved to that guy has a PC, and has emailed a file. What's new with Language Weaver?

Software Review 145

Software Review USC Content Tech Coast Angels 145

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. Zumbox was essentially the USPS online, where we had networked street addresses so that email cloud flow online the same way as it did offline. How did the company come about? It just snowballed from there.

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Social Media Zumbox Media Startup 248

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Email marketing and cross-channel interactive marketing saas solutions provider ExactTarget has acquired Pardot, a marketing automation provider and iGoDigital, web personalization provider in a move that will revolutionize its marketing platform. Pardot was founded in 2007 and is based in Atlanta. Over 100million in Cash.

Platform 56

Platform Marketing Social Media Web 56

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Their first company was called Traffic.com, which they sold in March 2007 to Navteq for $180 million (not too shabby). Assistly is a customer support product designed to meet the needs of the current era of multi-channel touch points (think Twitter, email, chat, forum in addition to phone calls). Another example.

Entrepreneur 267

Entrepreneur Startup SaaS San Diego 267

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I feel more comfortable in my skin and accept that I can’t return every email, I can’t take every startup pitch, I can’t attend ANY demo days ( did I mention I don’t like demo days ?), I can’t be at every great out-of-town meetup and I certainly can’t “ chuck in money to every party round.”

Software Review 150

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Invest 150

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

That company was sold in 2007. And, we have our own custom signal processing technology that increases the efficiency of all those existing systems that I've just described. We call it customer discovery--we went out to talk about the problem of conversational memory retention.

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Startup Software Review Technical Review 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. They are dedicated to providing high-availability systems, beautiful user interfaces, furious developer support and unparalleled customer care.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. Or emailed a video clip to a sibling or friend across the country just to put a smile on their face? It happens every day.

Idealab 77

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

It’s hard for me to imagine that an entrepreneur who was waiting to see the CEO of their largest potential customer would leave if that customer were 20 minutes late. Many don’t return my emails on time. But I became a VC in 2007 and wrote my first check in 2009 – 4.5 They understand that it just is.

Venture Capital 374

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Invest Funding 374

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

The second customer is the social networking sites. Derrick Oien: We launched Rabble in June of 2005, and we launched the first version of ANTHEM in September of 2007. Historically, for us and our partners, you would merchandise the service out to customers, and you had the issue of how do they find it. So it's been a year.

Social Network 113

Social Network Anthem Mobile Java 113

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

We provide three lines of service, one is called Developer Advice, which is not a common service out there--where customers can have confidential discussions with our architects through a secure forum, so that they're not posting specifics about their customers or projects publicly. They all were very different companies.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2010

The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. Marketers use that data, for example, to only sell BMWs to those who can afford it and are their target customer. Last week, Ventura-based The Trade Desk (www.thetradedesk.com) announced a $2.5M

Advertising 157

Advertising Startup Media Marketing 157

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. Or emailed a video clip to a sibling or friend across the country just to put a smile on their face? It happens every day.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Frank Addante

AUGUST 14, 2006

Even with my current company, StrongMail Systems ( Startup 5.0 ), an email infrastructure company, there were a number of skeptics. You would think that the importance of email would be obvious to everyone. . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer? ► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre.

Startup 40

Startup Email Ideas Venture Capital 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Just a month ago they were all email you! But there are many great VCs also who see the entrepreneur as their customer as they should do and are realistic about how much of an impact we advisors and financiers really have. It was 2007. We’re just going to have to change our focus a bit. What if we pivot slightly?

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 384

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Pursue references from a variety of sources, including customers, suppliers, subordinates, etc. It will also reduce the number of errant phone calls and email exchanges your Referencers will have to administer on your behalf. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. six months). Get real world advice from John Greathouse, Subscribe Today. —.

Startup 113

Startup .Net Organization Networking 113

Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

Put yourself in the shoes of your customers or users. Answering only one or two of these questions won’t work. > I need to send marketing, e-commerce or e-statements emails to my customers to drive revenue or reduce costs. StrongMail is proven to be the fastest, easiest and most reliable solution for email delivery.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Web 2.0 Outsource Development 40

Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

As a matter of fact, part of the inspiration behind my current company, StrongMail Systems (Startup 5.0), an email infrastructure company, dates back 10 years ago to Starting Point. At Starting Point, 100% of the interaction with our users/customers was via email. . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer?

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Yahoo Email 40

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

As a result, we ended up doing a lot of one-off custom work for clients and never really gained traction in any particular area. We can solve so many different problems with email delivery ranging from performance to reliable email delivery to dynamic content. . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer?

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Advertising Email 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. StrongMail’s software ensures reliable and timely delivery of their critical customer communications. . ► March (1) Office 2.0:

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Just a month ago they were all email you! But there are many great VCs also who see the entrepreneur as their customer as they should do and are realistic about how much of an impact we advisors and financiers really have. It was 2007. We’re just going to have to change our focus a bit. What if we pivot slightly?

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 176

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

So there is a good balance in there but where the team or where the product finds its customers at the end of the day, EDM of all styles - that’s basically how you can sum it up. He’s been a DJ producer for a long time has been on the EDM scene for many years. Can you tell us more about what Karl does with artist outreach?

Startup 101

Startup Artificial Inteligence Tool Product 101

Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

I have found that if an idea is incredibly complex, it inherently requires more time to develop and is harder to explain to customers, users, partners, employees, etc. And if customers, users, partners and employees have a hard time understanding or explaining the idea, then it will eventually fail. . ► March (1) Office 2.0:

Startup 40

Startup Outsource Development Product Advertising 40

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

1 2 3 next › last » February 2010 login or register to post comments Print Email Newsletters Browse current issue › Subscribe to Fast Company › Digg StumbleUpon Facebook Buzz Up! www.goodandgreen.biz Microsoft Office Buy Office Small Business 2007 now. LinkedIn Sign in or register to comment. then in Silicon Valley.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Frank Addante

AUGUST 29, 2006

Customers validate businesses. Often times, that time investment could have been better spent talking to customers or acquiring users. Rather than spending time trying to persuade a VC, wouldnt it be easier to simply say "just ask our customers"? . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer? Momentum sells.

Venture Capital 40

Venture Capital Capital Startup Outsource Development 40

Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

billion on Friday, I have received a flood of emails asking for my thoughts on the topic. If Im a publisher using Google, they already have my customer list, advertising data and revenue information anyway. . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer? ► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre.

Google 40

Google Advertising Startup Venture Capital 40

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318