socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2013

RxVantage (www.rxvantage.com), based in Los Angeles, is looking to tackle that huge market with its medical scheduling software for pharmaceutical and medical sales reps and medical offices, and is venture backed by Slater Technology Fund and Javelin Venture Partners. That was back in 2007, when we started. READ MORE>>.

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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. What is Sidebar all about? So how does this fit into the mobile world and B2B?

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Shockingly, some of the recommended tactics pitched by NPS gurus could actually decrease your sales by solidifying a propensity to not promote your solution. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Tags: Entrepreneur Sales The Fringe. A Net Promoter Score of 10 and a bank account of 0 equal a failed venture. Shots On Goal.

.Net 182

.Net Satisfaction Entrepreneur Customer 182

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We have built SocialStay for scale so I think the ‘chasm’ is both a function of time and sales. You don’t need much… But what you do need is sales. Jeff and Brian are informal and very generous with ideas, input and feedback when they have time. AddVisors can be formal or informal. constantly looking and interviewing.”.

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Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Founded in 2007.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Anyhow, I replied and asked who pays who here and found that First Data pays Chad a commission for his sales. Our reporting system relies on an algorithm that takes into account a variety of business factors including complaint and other business information. 2007 Closed Complaints – 2. Shocking, right? Now it gets good!

Santa Barbara 265

Santa Barbara Technical Advisors Email Technical Review 265

socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Greg Brogger: I founded BrightHouse in the middle of 2007, along with Scott Painter. Towards early 2007, Scott and I had taken Zag to a level of some measure of stability, and we were thinking about the next thing. The way sales are handled is as old as the 1930's securities laws. Are you transacting sales through the site yet?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

At the time we established these Alliances, our annual sales were less than $20 million and our market value was approximately $60 million or one-fifth of one percent of total capitalization of our Alliance members. Revenue – We generated significant fees, over and above our product sales, from our members. Copyright © 2007-10 by J.

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Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Startup Conference 168

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ. Woot was one of the first one-per-day item sales site with a humorous and not always PC content. Will become foundation for EMC’s Information Infrastructure business. -Company plans to use money to expand inventory and distribution capabilities, and build more social features. TechCrunch.

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Venture Capital Mission Ventures Capital Help 242

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Shockingly, some of the recommended tactics pitched by NPS gurus could actually decrease your sales by solidifying a propensity to not promote your solution. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. A Net Promoter Score of 10 and a bank account of 0 equal a failed venture. Turning Net Promoters Into Net Profits. Shots On Goal. Meredith Publishing.

.Net 168

.Net Satisfaction Customer Custom 168

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

After we left the company we were working for, Elite Information Systems--which was later acquired by Thompson, Alan and I formed Chrome River. We formed the company in 2007, came out with our first product in late 2008, and began selling in earnest in 2009. It's been really fantastic, and we've really enjoyed it.

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Software Report Startup IBM 100

InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

My House Is Not For Sale. Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale. Open up a “sales process” and solicit bids from multiple companies. If you are unsure of the fairness of their initial proposal, you can then seek additional information to determine where it falls within the expected range.

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Company Companies Pricing Santa Barbara 160

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

To gain some insight into the area, we spoke with Ian Swanson, one of the founders of Sometrics (www.sometrics.com), which develops software to gather information on social media and optimize advertising. Installation really only takes a minute or two, you do a copy and paste, and by doing so they start to get relevant information back.

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Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

We provide, develop, and deliver a video-based software platform, which provides sales and support for consumer products, and specifically for products that are complicated. We were founded in 2007, with the mission of leveraging video -- which is a much more, exact medium -- to help consumer with this problem.

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Guide Training Platform Product 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). That ended up as a $200 million sale to Microsoft. We primarily use the telephone security method.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

To gain some insight into the area, we spoke with Ian Swanson, one of the founders of Sometrics (www.sometrics.com), which develops software to gather information on social media and optimize advertising. Installation really only takes a minute or two, you do a copy and paste, and by doing so they start to get relevant information back.

Social Media 100

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

We then sorted these email addresses by company and initiated targeted sales campaigns wherever we identified a critical mass of users. In the course of a few months, despite the cumbersome sales cycle, we finalized deals with a number of former BuddyHelp users including CompUSA, Blackbaud and Cox. Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

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Customer Custom Technical Support Startup 162

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. That became our company Hit the Ground Running, which we launched in 2007 to help a number of Fortune 500 clients with our technology and methodologies.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

We’ve had just one market since then and it could confuse one into thinking: every deal finds downstream investors, every company good or bad finds a home, you know anything at all about brazil, india, china or even saas sales, ecommerce or analytics (you know all these in a bull market). The industry did that in 2007.

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Funding Venture Capital Startup Marketing 150

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 24, 2010

Record companies evaluated songs based upon a variety of informal means, such as the Old Gray Whistle Test. For instance, engineers will typically evaluate ideas differently than people engaged in sales, who in turn will consider ideas from a different vantage point from those responsible for product development and marketing.

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Ideas Resource Technical Review Startup 187

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2009

If you cannot offer a trial, capture enough information online so an inside salesperson can readily contact your prospects. More complex sales, as well as those involving higher price points, are well served by soliciting trackable calls. Copyright © 2007-9 by J. Get real world advice from John Greathouse, Subscribe Today. —.

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Customer Custom Acquisition Entrepreneur 153

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

In this particular case I wasn’t convinced it was a good idea from the limited information I had. 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. It was 2007. Long hours. Time away from family.

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 384

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. I don't have a long sales cycle, because I'm talking to people who have already chosen Jetty. I also worked in sales groups for Websphere, and bootstrapped Webtide--all right in a row. It's extremely widely used.

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IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 1, 2010

For instance, if the BDC were to bundle your solution with one sold via its VARs, such a partnership might result in incremental VAR sales. Review the person’s publicly available information from social media sites. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Even the most ineffective and dysfunctional BDCs tend to listen to their customers.

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Company Companies Email Press 124

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

In any sale--and raising money is a sale--establishing credibility early on is important. You're not trying to make a sale in two minutes. There's only so much information you can give in two minutes, but let us know if you're selling something, is it a service or a product, and how do you take it to market.

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Tech Coast Angels Ideas Entrepreneur Invest 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

In this particular case I wasn’t convinced it was a good idea from the limited information I had. 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. It was 2007. Long hours. Time away from family.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 176

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Initally, the product development process should likely be focused on big-picture qualitative information, like whether or not your business is addressing the right audience as well as the preferences for that audience. It is leads you need to make sales in B2B. December 2007 (7). November 2007 (4). October 2007 (11).

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

They will interpret affable and friendly actions as a transparent sales ploy. You have crossed over to the other side when your Bro is willing to share such intimate information. Copyright © 2007-9 by J. In addition, many people are simply not valid Bro candidates. Bro’s enjoy spending time together outside of work.

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Startup Organization Allegis Commerce 113

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). InviteMedia (acquired by Google).

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Loren Bendele joined Savings.com in January 2007 as the CEO. Sherman felt that helping them sort through the confusing and often misleading information about what is safe to put in, on, and around their families would be the best way to help effect change that would be good for children and also good for the planet.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

The reason for that is simple, when Stephan started the company in 2007, he couldn’t find the specialist who could deliver or develop highly sophisticated and complicated algorithms that we have developed. But that’s where the information stops. Got it, so I see the development team is based out of Austria?

Startup 101

Startup Artificial Inteligence Tool Product 101

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Within weeks, we shortened our sales cycle. In fact, we had deals closed in less than 48 hours (which formerly could have taken weeks) because we had prospects that were able to find and evaluate our product while our sales reps were asleep. . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer?

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Startup Ideas Venture Capital Competition 40

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

After rejuvenating from the exhausting sale of Quigo, Mike started a ‘boring site’ called Tracked.com that he thought would be a better version of Yahoo! Then he simply realized it was unlikely for a business information site like Tracked to become social. They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

Whether it be product development, marketing, sales, negotiating or raising capital, I find myself trying harder to not get bogged down with unnecessary details. For more information on this topic, a friend and colleague of mine, Peter Sealey , wrote a book called "Simplicity Marketing." . ► March (1) Office 2.0:

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Startup Outsource Development Product Advertising 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

We shared information about building sales teams. Hiring inside reps, how to comp field sales reps and how to balance leads across both. If you’re reading this you’ll now likely know that I became a VC in 2007 with what is now called Upfront Ventures. I was Johnny NoMates. We attended Saleforce.com parties.

SaaS 150

SaaS Venture Capital Conference Technical Review 150

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

When I first got into the industry it was 2007. I show charts on housing, structural unemployment, home equity re-financings that we spent meaning less spending power post crash, new housing sales, debt-to-income ratios, public-sector job problems that will cause crises in cities and states across the US. Yesterday was a Monday.

Marketing 305

Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

dealing with how digital or analog signals are actually transmitted for point A to point B), the network layer in the middle that deals with routing packets of information, to the presentation and application layer at the top end. What about financial services information? Same with university data. Healthcare data. Weather data.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343