SoCal CTO

MAY 4, 2010

Some great posts from April 2010 that talk to me in terms of being a CTO at a Startup. Ben Casnocha: The Blog , April 15, 2010 Everyone I spoke with loved the idea. Redeye VC , April 13, 2010 Startup Development - SoCal CTO , April 23, 2010 Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 15, 2010

Thursday, January 21, 2010 -- Defining the Target Market and Meeting Marketing Needs. Program participants will build their skills and confidence to research an industry and its market characteristics, potential competitors, and customers. Email cynthia.bemis@octaneoc.org.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Jon Ferrara was co-founder of Goldmine software, a huge customer relationship management (CRM) provider which he built into a $100M business in the PC age, and is now working on doing the same thing in the age of the cloud, with another CRM startup, Nimble (www.nimble.com). That allowed us to deliver a scalable solution for our customers.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

If I Launched a Startup - The Startup Lawyer , March 17, 2010 Great advice on initial steps of setting up a Startup. 9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 You would have met many smart people who live a mediocre life. There are MANY of them. You might be surprised why this is the case.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

I’d like to offer you two “life hacks&# that I implemented in 2009 and one that I’m test driving in 2010. Like you, I struggle to return everybody’s emails because I get too many. So I often try to stay off of email during the day. I’ve been stuck in email hell for quite some time.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. What is Laughstub? Scot Richardson: In a nutshell, we're a WordPress for venues.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Peer-to-peer lending service; started on FaceBook; claim to own 79% of the US peer lending market in March 2010 with a whopping $8,664,750. Assistly “Multi-channel customer support and management service&# – this is another industry I love and I specifically love the team at Assistly. LendingClub. 24.5mm in Series C.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I’ve remained a skeptic about the BBB and as a result of an email I received a couple of weeks ago from them, I have raised the skepticism threat level. So here’s the email I received: Eric, My name is Chad Ratliffe emailing from the Better Business Bureau. This is my sole objective for January of 2010.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

We started focusing on that, and at the time we were doing only phone verification, but then we started adding in data analytics because of customer demand, we added in some other things like straight messaging rather than pin codes. What enabled you to get that first customer on board? We were really focused on customer acquisition.

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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. We were crowd sourcing artists and design.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

According to a recent study done by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were 565,000 new businesses created per month in 2010 in the US alone, which is a 15-year high. Build a media kit, publicize endorsements from friends and beta customers, get dialogs going on Twitter, and optimize your website landing pages.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

For years now, companies have been forced to choose between cumbersome, expensive Virtual Data Rooms and decentralized, unsecure email to manage their complex transactions. The firm says its customers benefit from closing deals faster, exchanging files securely, and being able to manage more deals at any given time. million Raised.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Every second, a copy of MS Office 2010 is sold, and a large number of those go towards corporate use. Over 73% of large businesses in North America use Microsoft Exchange Server as their primary email system. Microsoft Dynamics CRM has over 30,000 customers and 2 million users worldwide. That’s 133,333 units per day.

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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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Eric Greenspan

MARCH 25, 2013

In 2010, after my 5th talk, USC Marshall School produced a case study about the customer centricity offered by the company. When I woke up that Sunday morning and received an email that our investor had pulled out, I knew it was over. For 10+ years the company seemed unstoppable, unbreakable and the moon was in sight.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

When we initially invested in DataPop in 2010, we placed a bet on a serially successful team that had grown up together at DoubleClick, Yahoo! This results in more effective ads with greater reach, deeper customer engagement and significantly better ROI. and Overture Services. Share and Enjoy.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Yesterday, Make It Work got together at our partner South Bay Mini’s offices to discuss our achievements, our challenges and our future…we called it “Launch to the Moon, 2010.&# We talked about “ON IT,&# as a means to responding NOW to every customer request. There were 50+ Minis parked in a row , that was cool!

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

UCB Economics 2010 summa cum laude. Checkout, then show the email confirmation to the box office using your phone or by printing it out. Theater owners love us because we bring them new customers without having to pay any setup fees, monthly fees, or monthly minimums. We provide movie deals to our customers 24/7.

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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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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Engineers typically evaluate ideas differently than people engaged in sales, who in turn will consider ideas from a dissimilar vantage point from those responsible for product development, customer support and marketing. However, at that time, our resources were better applied to exploiting our primary, PC-based market. Share and Enjoy.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Let’s assume you run a Customer Support software company. Do you simply begin by asking, “I’d love to understand what your objectives are in customer support? You need to identify a customer problem and talk about how your solution meets the needs of that problem. Where are your current pains?&#.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2012

We were acquired in June of 2010, and it's been 21 months now, almost two years. They can build a storefront, brand it so the customers know who they are, use tools to email our customers directly, without us getting involved. We brand through the experience, and market and promote them to the customer.

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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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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

As for 2010, it’s shaping up to be a year of general improvement in the business and technology industries hard hit by recession, the impact of which has seemed to hold back new investment and experimentation in social technologies, many of which are funded by staff participation from Internet firms.

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Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

I was there from when the company launched until March of 2010, when I left to start MomentFeed. 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. Could you give an example of how a customer might use your service? Rob Reed: Exactly.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I was on an airplane 2-3 times / week meeting potential customers, investors, employees, business partners and the press. I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines. I scheduled runs with teammates and even with customers.

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Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Conference 308

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

I've watched businesses operate throughout my career, and saw that so many times business users struggle with relatively simple applications, where they can't get them build, can't get them to work, and where they have to kludge together an email system to route things to get things approved. That's been helpful with growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

In 2010 I didn’t know a single thing about LPs (the people who invest in VC funds). You could easily guess their email addresses or ping them on Twitter?—?don’t. The investor is a customer and they have money to spend but only for a limited number of companies. All of this, of course, is Sales 101. No matter how tempting it is.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. The company’s analytics comprehensively monitors customer behavior over multiple networks, including location-based mobile networks. Watch this space.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

22, 2010. Bring your products to your Customers, their social network and their influencers with DoTogether Hosted Facebook Applications. Most people facing this problem resort to mass text messages, and long, frustrating email chains. Event Details: When: Wednesday, Sept 22nd, 2010 - 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

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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. The company was founded in 2008 but launched publicly in March 2010. We offer users live customer support from representatives here in Palo Alto via chat, phone and email.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 26, 2011

They are dedicated to providing high-availability systems, beautiful user interfaces, furious developer support and unparalleled customer care. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers! Custom ad deals and partnerships. We’re just an hour from the snow and steps from the beach. (mt) mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2015

Cyber Command was initiated in 2010. The agency has been tracking their capabilities since 2010, and based on undisclosed “bread crumbs” left by the attackers, the threat could be traced back to systems used by North Korea. In the case of North Korea, the U.S. In 2013, over 600 data breaches personally affected consumers.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

It’s also necessary to note that a poor mobile website experience can impact your customers’ perception of and loyalty to your brand. Google told us back in 2010 that site speed was important for SEO. million in sales every year for just a 1-second page delay. Technically, this may open the door to a single-page application (SPA).

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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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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

They are dedicated to providing high-availability systems, beautiful user interfaces, furious developer support and unparalleled customer care. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers! Or emailed a video clip to a sibling or friend across the country just to put a smile on their face? mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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