Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2014

And it happened again in early 2008, as CEOs reported the first evidence of order slowdowns and issues with customer payments – right before the ‘great recession.’. It was an Internet CEO roundtable in early 2000 where it became obvious before the public was aware, that the bubble was just beginning to burst for such tech businesses.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 6, 2013

The firm announced,”We’re proud to work with companies like Mint that can innovate quickly, providing both of our customers with the tools that they’ve requested.” Founded in 2008, Dwolla’s network connects to a user’s bank account to allow them to move money for just $0.25

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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. That's where Deal Current was born.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 20, 2012

The company launched its social media management system in 2008, growing to over 4 million users by the start of 2012. According to Ambrosia Humphrey, the company’s Director of Human Resources, “We had a jobs@ email in place, but it was hard to manage once we decided to move forward with the hiring process.”

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave Waldman , CEO and Founder of Los Angeles-based Bccthis (www.Bccthis.com), a startup looking to add additional functionality and private messaging into both corporate emails and Twitter messages. Dave Waldman: We started quite a while ago, back in almost September of 2008. How long has Bccthis been around?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

Bryce Maddock: TaskUs is the best provider in the world of customer care and back office services for emerging growth companies. Customer care, obviously, is emails, phone calls, and customer service back office services. In 2008, we started to throw around ideas, and eventually settled on this one. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

years ago you’d remember RIP Good Times from Sequoia, which still strikes me as having been prudent advice in late 2008. That was back when VCs weren’t so quick to respond to emails. As with tonight I got my kids to bed, did some email, caught 30 minutes of the news then sat down to type. So which is it?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

What kinds of customers are using your service? Daniel Scalisi: We've got many nationally recognized organizations, including the Children's Miracle Network, the National Breast Cancer Association, the Humane Society, which are just a few of our customers. We've gotten over 80 paying customers in our five months we've been deployed.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

If you're a web publisher, or even a brand developing your own outreach to customers through a newsletter or microsite, how do you efficiently gather and curate all of the news and information out there? I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis. Finally, what's the next big thing for you?

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

Third, is we provide customer care and phone support for orders; the fourth is the software technology, the platform that powers everything. The sixth is marketing analytics, including SEM/SEO, collecting customer names, emails -- we use ExactTarget for emails, and Omniture for Analytics.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 16, 2010

The meeting was set for Wednesday, May 8th 2008 at 11am. Customers do come first. If you need to reschedule a few days in advance - Whether you do your own scheduling or whether you have an assistant, a polite email to reschedule a meeting with a few days notice is usually acceptable. And I meant it.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

We founded the company in 2008, inspired by and around the first iPhone. We now have over 400 customers of our product, and a good majority of the Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 using it to put a completely new face on their important data, and using it to get that out into the hands of their employees. How do customers use your product?

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

Our platform allows clients to run campaigns in front of their customers, wherever it's best to reach those customers. In 2008, we built applications for musicians Travis Barker and DJ-AM, which provided a mixtape in exchange for a tweet. We target customers in ways that reach those customers, and where they pay attention.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Full Tables, Happy Customers. Groupon said it launched the system due to customer demands. “In Groupon Payments credit cards also promise to make it easy for merchants to calculate bill totals, process refunds, redeem Groupon vouchers, email receipts and save times and money. Simplest and Lowest Cost Option.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

It’s payments API allows platforms and marketplaces to accept payments for their customers without pre-existing merchant accounts. WePay was founded in 2008 by Bill Clerico and Rich Aberman and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. The company was founded in 2008 but launched publicly in March 2010. When was it launched?

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Lean startups validate their business model by quickly iterating and assessing potential customers' feedback. Lean startups must often defeat established competitors which are better funded and have established customer bases. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! Lean Music.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2013

Carol Hall and I started our business Absentminded in 2008, making iPhone applications. We tried to figure it out as a customer, and the ad networks just didn''t work for us. They ensure that kid''s privacy is not violated, so for example, you can''t get the email address for kids so you can directly solicit them.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Bu when you start to worry that the world is ending (as it seemed it was in late 2008 / early 2009) you tend to get worried about large burn rates. Enter the famous Sequoia “RIP Good Times” presentation and Ron Conway’s publicly leaked emails calling for big slashes in burn rates. So we have almost no triage problem.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

As an employee of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets from 1999-2003 and of the Indianapolis Pacers from 2003-2008, I learned first-hand from the likes of Rod Thorn, Byron Scott, Jason Kidd and Larry Bird about the importance of leading by example and keys to assembling a championship-caliber team. We have 115 paying customers right now.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2010

Mark Tapling: Starting in March of 2008, Language Weaver really embarked on a growth strategy. We managed to double the company in eight quarters, and added companies like Dell, Intel, Adobe, Expedia, TripAdvisor, Siemens, and Rockwell and lots of other great global brand names as customers. Mark, thanks for the time today.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

It's a very interesting process, and although we can't use lots of names, our customers will talk to other companies and tell them they have to have this, which is pretty neat. But, the amount of labor that goes into that--not to mention emails, spreadsheets, and disk space--is unbelievable. Therese Tucker: Here's the difference.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

2008 App ecosystem on iOS = $0. 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. Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. hours / day.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In January of 2008, we launched CalActive , which we thought might be a regional business. The automated part, is a customer fills out a form and buys the product through their shopping cart. The customer gets an email which tells them the order is pending, and confirmation or an e-ticket will be forthcoming.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

She left her job at Genzyme, and we started the company in January of 2008. We did a seed round in January of 2008, and did our angel round which we closed last week. In our case, we provide a link to our partners, as opposed to taking a user's name and email and selling that to people. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Here’s why that is important: when users are on your website you want to convert them to become paying customers. It’s true that the carrier then gets their huge slice for being the billing and payment engine but the idea is that you as a website more than make up for this in terms of customer conversion.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

And, we have our own custom signal processing technology that increases the efficiency of all those existing systems that I've just described. You need to be able to take the audio, and process it by whatever means is appropriate, and also provide an email or web solution to provide that transcribed content to the user.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Prior to founding 1 st Street Partners, Robin was the Executive Vice President of Publishing and the executive leading the global games business at ActivisionBlizzard where she oversaw all studio/product development and marketing/business operations, doubled revenue and delivered record profit from 2005 through 2008. Want to Sponsor?

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 14, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. You would think that the importance of email would be obvious to everyone. Not the case.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Put yourself in the shoes of your customers or users. ► October (1) New Video!

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. with her husband, Douglas, a former Google chief information officer, in late 2008. Most Emailed Feed. Email Newsletters and Alerts.

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Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. At Starting Point, 100% of the interaction with our users/customers was via email.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. We focused on proving that StrongMail is the best way to get email reliably delivered to the Inbox.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. ► October (1) New Video! This would later inspire the genesis of StrongMail.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. We developed the product, took it to market and acquired 3,000+ customers in less than 3 years.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Not all bots are benign however.Some bots go through your website looking for web forms and email addresses to send you spam. When you block by IP address, you may end up blocking an entire internet provider, and thus a lot of realusers and potential customers. Copyright © 2008 by Christopher Heng. Who is this article for?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising.

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