Xconomy

JULY 7, 2016

Morristown, NJ-based Pernix (NASDAQ: PTX ) will cut 60 workers , mostly from its neurology sales staff, the company said today. That deal added Somaxon’s insomnia drug doxepin (Silenor) to the Pernix product mix. As of the end of 2015, Pernix reported a headcount of 274. Those acquisitions helped Pernix reach $175.8

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Los Angeles-based Nimble announced a new link into Microsoft Outlook, as well as a number of other products, via new additions to the firm's App Marketplace. Nimble also said it has connected its software into ActiveCampaign, an email marketing platform, and QuoteRoller, software which streamlines and automates sales processes.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

In 2010 somebody posed the question on Quora, “Is Mark Suster a Successful Venture Capitalist?” Helping companies get to next financing round successfully: I was just beginning this phase in Sept 2010 and said so. This is what I wrote on that Quora answer from Sept 2010. Lemons ripen early, great companies take time.”

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The firm said Hello Music Vintage sales channel is partnering with retail partners such as Norms Rare Guitars and Chelsea Guitars to offer up products from the two retailers. Hello Music is headed by Rick Camino, and was founded in 2010; the firm is a portfolio firm of Elevator Labs, which develops, funds, and launched businessses.

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MARCH 22, 2011

The firm said companies like Progrexion Marketing--which markets the credit repair product Lexington Law--has been seeing success with pay-per-call using its products. RingRevenue said Progrexion has seen an increase of 630% in sales due to its pay-per-call campaigns since launch in July of 2010.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

The e-commerce retailer said it saw 146 percent, year-over-year sales growth from its marketplace, which lists products from third party retailers. Buy.com said 46 percent of its orders in Q4, and more than 50 percent of its Q1 2010 site orders came from the Buy.com Marketplace, and that the sales were behind its strong Q4 2009.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2010

San Diego-based Maxwell Technologies , a developer of energy storage and other products, is claiming this morning that it is seeing "strong demand" for the firm's ultracapacitor-based energy storage products.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

Fountain Valley-based Kingston Technology , the provider of computer memory products, reported today that it has hit a record, $6.5 billion in revenues in 2010. billion increase in its sales over 2009. The firm said the amount is the highest ever in company history, and was a $2.4

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

According to PC Mall, it will continue to operate eCOST.com as an online marketplace for computers, networking equipment, electronics, entertainment, and other products. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. This team is talented.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

Encore will be responsible for sales, marketing, and production of Panda's Antivirus Pro 2010, Internet Security 2010, Global Protection 2010, and Antivirus for Netbooks products in the U.S. Financial details of the publishing deal were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Andy Vogel: Typically, we are looking at people who have complex or very large product catalogs. We''ve created one system to pull it all together for them, so that they operate more efficiently on sales, operations, order entry, fulfillment, and billing. Andy Vogel: Our biggest challenge is hiring sales talent.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

Jimmy Hendricks: Our lead product is a white label, daily deal product. We've got three core product centers; the online contests that drive traffic, the daily deals that drive revenue, and then we are also looking at a marketplace product for online communities that want to sell deals, but don't want them as daily deals.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Competitors, seeing a successful development of a niche, flock into the competitive void with products or services built with a fresh view of the current environment. LivingSocial took in $583 million in capital in 2010 and 2011 with little left in time to show for the investment and tremendous dilution to the founders.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

In further details on the FAN deal, Addante also said that it has not acquired the advertising sales team at FAN, saying that it "is not, and will not be, an ad network." Intead, the firm is using FAN's acquisition to add around 100 employees from FAN as part of its engineering and product team. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 6, 2009

on sales of $830.0M. the firm lost on sales of $1,030.5M on net sales of $170.3M, compared with a net loss of $34.5M The firm reported that it now has 1,200 people in its product development organization, after it cut 600 people during its fourth quarter. The losses were significantly higher than the $35.3M a year ago.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

Irvine-based HDTV maker VIZIO is claiming this week that the firm is growing twice as fast as the rest of the industry, and has been seeing 31 percent quarter-over-quarter sales growth. The firm, citing El Segundo-based iSuppli's latest Q2 2010 numbers, says it now is the number two brand of HDTV maker, with 18.9 LCD TV market.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

As 2010 approaches, a whole new year of exciting start-ups, tech news, gadgets, and much more is ahead. We already have a jammed packed schedule for 2010. We already have a jammed packed schedule for 2010. Without all of you and your support, TechZulu could not be around today. We invite you to bring your world into ours. .

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APRIL 12, 2012

We were acquired in June of 2010, and it's been 21 months now, almost two years. We partnered with the world's largest distributors, Ingram Micro and others, to provide great services, prices, and products to consumers. million products, and let you find the lowest prices on those products. Neel Grover: It's been great.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 23, 2010

Newly announced markets that will see 4G in 2010 are Cincinnati, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Miami, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City and St. With Sprint 4G, the mobile Internet potential is virtually limitless, especially for those using a Sprint 4G-powered product, such as Overdrive(TM) 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot and Sprint 3G/4G USB Modem U301 by Franklin.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 12, 2013

The conference was created in 2010 by Hank and John Green, when they hosted approximately 1,400 fans and industry insiders. Movies often require months to script and cost, additional months to film and are usually not released until months or even years after post-production work is completed. Celebrities In The House. See you there.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Dynamic, growing startups consistently identify more ideas and opportunities than they have the time or resources to pursue, including: entering into potential partnerships, developing new products and accessing emerging markets. However, at that time, our resources were better applied to exploiting our primary, PC-based market.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2010

It’s been more than 5 years and I still think about that sales campaign and get pissed off at how much I took for granted. In every sales campaign of any substance (e.g. Or frankly, maybe they just believe that your competitor has a better product. I know it sounds ugly, but it happens. In fact, ramp up your efforts.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

As you might or might not remember, I joined in 2010 with a vision to turn the company into a true technology company, and pivoted the company to ad technology. We started looking to see if we could use technology disrupt the agency business, for companies serving the performance marketing area, the cost-per-sale area.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. Same goes for television.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

Are users willing to check into local businesses with another, mobile check-in product? My other co-founder, Rusty Jenkins, was also with that company, doing sales. Other than that, I don't really see a downside for a company that is trying to raise money, if they are close to product.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Nimble's software connects to your email, social accounts, and more, and helps you track your customers, sales prospects, sales pipeline, and much much more. We built the first, networkable contact management product, Goldmine, to run on top of Novell. Congrats on being accepted to Microsoft's Accelerator. Explain that?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. They are more likely to be the “bottom end of the sales funnel” or in other words close to “point of purchase.” But on the other hand if you have a product with a very high gross margin (software, virtual goods, etc.)

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

We’ve all become so used to having Microsoft in our lives that we’ve started to take their products and services for granted. Since then, Microsoft has come out with product after product, always improving and innovating – and you can keep counting on it to keep doing so. That makes it the first in console sales.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

At Rincon Venture Partners , we have a laser focus on identifying groundbreaking adtech and business productivity SaaS solutions. 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! and Overture Services.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2011

We've done really well since then, were profitable in 2010, and have had some really great clients. Those can be sales, coupon redemptions, or downloads. We're looking to staff up pretty aggressively, and are buildling out our engineering team, sales team, and ad operations team. from a group of VCs and angels. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Every price comparison out there, whether that's Google Products, Bizrate, or other sites, can find books, but you can only do it one at a time. The act only came into effect in 2010, at which point we built a system to try to find out that information for as many schools as possible. I graduated in May of 2010. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

Jeremy Gocke: With Fliptu, we're aiming to fix the disjointed media and product discovery process for consumers and brands. Jeremy Gocke: The first incarnation of the idea for Fliptu started to gel between 2008 and 2010. What were supposed to be five minute cook and book sales calls ended up becoming ten minutes calls.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

We''ve now reached critical mass in content, and in Asia we''re number three in the amount of information on products and suppliers online. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. We went from no suppliers to now over 160,000 suppliers, over two million products online. How long has company been around? Grow, grow, grow.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Beginning this month, the deal will see Sunbelt nearly 100 nationwide Sunbelt offices shift to CapLinked’s cloud-based platform to manage complex, sensitive deals including asset sales. Sunbelt will give this deal management software to its business owner clients and franchised owners. Secure online workspaces. Over 5,000 SMEs.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 12, 2013

The conference was created in 2010 by Hank and John Green, when they hosted approximately 1,400 fans and industry insiders. Movies often require months to script and cost, additional months to film and are usually not released until months or even years after post-production work is completed. Celebrities In The House. See you there.

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Hollywood Conference Entertainment Activity 133