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Tealium Adds $35M to Expand Technology, Sharpen Customer Focus

Xconomy

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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Align Your Startup With Today’s Customer Paradigm

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup needs to understand that the customer paradigm has dramatically shifted over the past two years with pervasive social networks and smartphones. If your business doesn’t connect with your customers, individually and as a community, demanding customers will not only ignore you, but will actively keep other customers away.

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

He is not a technical person, but is somewhat web savvy. And in the case of defining mobile/web/software, there is even more variability in terms of form and format. This should be an iterative process with advisors and customers providing feedback on the product. You likely are writing your first one of these.

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Attract A MILLION New Customers Overnight with YouTube Marketing – Literally

Tech Zulu Event

01% conversion rate again to the people who clicked over to the website from the YouTube video, that’s 185 new customers, 185 people who would have never thought to google search for a tampon service, who will now be signing up to spend the 15 bucks a month to get tampons delivered to their door. If we apply that.01%

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LaunchpadLA Application Deadline Nears, As Class Graduates

socalTECH

The group says that so far, from 2009 to 2011, it accepted 23 companies, of which 19 received funding worth a total of $80M; the accelerator said that the nine companies acquired exceeds $60M in proceeds. LaunchpadLA started initially as a mentoring group, but expanded into accelerating and investing in companies in the last few years.

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Aaron Fyke, Thin Line Capital: The Second Wave Of Cleantech Investing

socalTECH

Cleantech had an enormous rise and fall between 20006 and 2009. Lots has changed since 2009. In 2009, the finance world fell apart, and the venture world fell apart, and I returned to Pasadena. The same thing happened with algae biofuel companies in the 2006 and 2009 time frame. You then caught things like Web 2.0,

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

socalTECH

We move transactional mail between web applications and end users. If you think of Pinterest, one of our customers, every time content is pinned or re-pinned, an email is generated to let users know that is happening. We now send over six billion emails per month on behalf of those customers. What is Sendgrid?

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