socalTECH
APRIL 4, 2013
When we arrived at USC, we began to talk about how we struggled during the recruiting process. Our coaches did not have relationships, and I ended up walking onto the USC baseball team, and Kai ended up walking onto their club lacrosse team. How''d you get over that hurdle? We actually sat with tons of junior college baseball coaches.
socalTECH
MARCH 19, 2019
We got a relatively large client in 2008, after three years of chugging along, and that's when we knew that was the business we should be focusing on. Stacy and Darren, our other co-founder who's not here right now, actually graduated from USC. What enabled you to get that first customer on board? What were you doing before?
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socalTECH
JUNE 30, 2010
Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. Tom Grasty: Essentially, we started off as a graduate school project at USC. It ran in April of 2008.
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. I had worked a year in investment banking, and Jasper was out of USC. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
MAY 11, 2011
Back to the website, describe who the demographics are of your customers? You mentioned earlier that the customers you are targeting tend to be pretty busy-- what's your strategy to get those customers to sign up and stay? We actually wrote the business plan in a business plan class at USC. It's fun an effective.
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 18, 2013
He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford, USC, and UCLA. As an investor, managed personal investment fund, Chance Technologies (1995 to Present), served as an advisor to Accel Partners (2006 to Present), served as a partner at the Yucaipa Companies (1998 to 2000), and served as the Managing Director or the Mail Room Fund (2008 to 2010).
SoCal CTO
MAY 15, 2009
Yammer was launched on stage at TechCrunch 50 on September 8, 2008 and won Best in Show. He handles strategic partnerships and enterprise agreements with large corporate customers, as well as serving as the company's in-house general counsel. (a social networking site for families), where the Yammer technology was developed.
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