Eric Greenspan

JULY 29, 2010

From a customer service perspective, this can be a great asset to your organization or, if improperly managed, a true nightmare. Carrier pigeon, snail mail, tin cans and string …life was simpler back then, but not nearly as fun!…I’m …I’m on roll here…maybe a TED Talk in the making! Be careful.

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world in 2010? The rationale there is the features they are creating--game mechanics, location based check-in, and location services. The obvious one is the iPad. What was the biggest lesson you learned over the past year (good or bad)?

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JUNE 9, 2010

Torrance-based PC Mall , the online retailer of PC products, said today that its subsidiary Sarcom has acquired substantially all of the assets of Network Services Plus, Inc (NSPI), a provider of hosted data center and managed IT services. in the five months ended May 31, 2010. The deal was worth $7.8M READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world in 2010? Right here in Los Angeles, Gil Elbaz and his team at Factual are building a platform and pipe for structured datasets that can be accessed (and purchased) as an on-demand service by anyone who needs them.

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DECEMBER 29, 2010

In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world in 2010? As 2010 comes to a close, I'm very grateful for the outstanding entrepreneurs, partners, co-investors, and service provides that I get to work with everyday. It's a revelation. People said "I don't need one.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 16, 2021

million Series A in 2010 that was co-led by Accel and Index Ventures. The online website creation and hosting service — which has now expanded into e-commerce by hosting online stores — then raised another $40 million round in 2014.

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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. It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. Why Shouldn’t Most Services Businesses Raise VC? Why Build a Services Business in the First Place?

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2021

Crosscut Ventures, Mubadala Capital, Next Play Capital and Owl Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the Los Angeles-based company’s total raised to $50 million since its 2010 inception. Welcome Tech, which has an office in San Antonio, Texas, raised an $8 million Series A in March of 2020. the company says.

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JULY 26, 2010

According to the study, it found that 49 percent of Internet users have used micro-blogging services like Twitter, but found that there was zero percent of users polled were willing to pay for such a service directly. Tags: twitter annenberg communications service online study. The project has been ongoing since 2000.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 13, 2009

We also chatted about the MIW 3Es: Extreme customer service, Extraordinary ability and Excitement about what we do and how we do it. Tags: Eric Greenspan make it work customer service mini cooper social media training Twitter. We talked about “ON IT,&# as a means to responding NOW to every customer request. It was a great day!

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JULY 14, 2020

RLH says it makes investments in profitable enterprises with revenue of $30-$150 million in the business services, healthcare, and government services sectors. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

As municipalities and utilities confront intractable infrastructure problems that range from the drinking water crisis in Flint, MI, to a 2010 natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, CA, Aquam says its proprietary technology and services can extend the life of pipelines, and make them more resilient.

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JULY 14, 2020

Phison and Kingstom formed KSI as a joint venture in 2010. The companie said the deal will allow Kingston to become the majority shareholder of KSI, although Phison will continue to develop technology, R&D, support, and service to Kingston. According to the two, the deal is worth NT$1,781,640,000, or approximately $60M.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Tuesday, October 5, 2010 -- LAPHP October Talk: Introduction to Amazon Web Services by Jeff Barr. Jeff Barr from Amazon.com will present an introduction to the Amazon Web Services. Join us for our regular monthly LAPHP talk on October 5th at CoLoft. See [link] (more).

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Getronics LATAM operates in Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela, and provides workspace management services, connectivity, data centers and consultancy services. OpenGate Capital had acquired Getronics LATAM in 2010. The company claimed the exit provides 11 times invested capital for the firm. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 9, 2018

According to j2, it has named Harmeet Singh as President of Cloud Services; Steve Horowitz as President of Ziff Davis; and Joey Fortuna as Chief Technology Officer. Horowitz has been at Ziff Davis since 2010, and previously served at Bankrate, AOL, and Yahoo. Singh has been at j2 since 2013, and prior to that was at SingerLewak LLP.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Aliso Viejo-based Smith Micro Software said today that it has released StuffIt Deluxe 2010 for Windows, the latest release of its file compression software.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 -- CommNexus and The LBS SIG Presents. M2M and LBS Ecosystem Wireless Devices, Connectivity and Smart Services. Everything that you want to know about the M2M and LBS big picture such as what constitutes a complete end-to-end solution: wireless devices, connectivity(airtime, aggregration) and service models.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 3, 2010

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 -- Innovation: Commercializing Medical Services using an Advanced Pricing Model. We will kick off the Growth Strategy Series with the topic of Innovation: Commercializing Medical Services using an Advanced Pricing Model.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Los Angeles-based subscription box startup FabFitFun said on Thursday that it has just exceeded $200M in revenues, and now has more than one million subscribers to its service. The site had started in 2010 as a digital magazine focused on beauty, fashion, fitness, wellness, and other areas. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 25, 2020

Pasadena-based Green Dot Corporation , the provider of banking services--which is best known for its prepaid debit cards--said it has named Dan Henry as the company's Chief Executive Officer. Henry also will join the company's board. Henry also was the co-founder of Euronet Worldwide, is chairman of Paysign Inc.,

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Los Angeles-based RPost , the developer of a service to electronically encrypt, capture, and electronically sign documents, said this morning that it has upgraded its software for Microsoft Outlook. Rpost targets the insurance, financial services, legal, telecommunications, manufacturing and real estate industries with its services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Even though it has been a long haul, it’s nice to see some optimism on the horizon for 2010. Small Business Outlook 2010: Lessons Learned – A Case for Greater Optimism ,” was published by CIT Group, Inc., A full 59% of respondents cited a greater focus on operating efficiencies as the number one step to achieving growth in 2010.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 13, 2010

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 -- Cloud Computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) $160 Billion Market Opportunity. software as a service", "SaaS" or "on-demand") is a popular way to access, use and pay for business support software and provides a viable business model in this emerging field of cloud computing.

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MARCH 2, 2017

Santa Monica-based Entravision , a media company which focuses on Latino audiences, announced on Thursday that it has acquired Headway , a provider of mobile, programmatic, data and performance digital marketing services and technology. Headway was based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and had 152 employees, and was founded in 2010.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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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JUNE 29, 2017

InvestCloud was founded and is led by CEO John Wise, a British entrepreneur who started Investcloud in his Los Angeles garage in 2010. The company says it now has over 670 clients, ranging from wealth managers and family offices, to institutional investors and asset services companies and institutional asset managers. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 17, 2014

Los Angeles-based streaming music service Earbits , which had focused on music discovery and listening to independent artists and labels, has officially shut down, shutting down its service on Monday. Earbits had been founded in 2010. Earbits said it would offer up a pro-rated refund to those labels and artists. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

.” There’s a lot at stake for Microsoft, Google and Amazon as entertainment companies look to migrate to managed computing services. While leaders like Netflix migrated to cloud services in 2012 and 21st Century Fox worked with HP to get its infrastructure on cloud computing, other companies have lagged.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

Rowe had been at Cox since 2010. YP offers up local search and directory services. Rowe was most recently at Cox Enterprises, serving as President of Cox Automotive Media Solutions Group--which runs Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, and Dealer.com. The company said Rowe will become CEO on September 1st. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 28, 2015

Los Angeles-based Dun & Bradstreet Creditibility Corporation , the provider of business credit services run by Jeff Stibel, has been acquired by Dun & Bradstreet , in a deal worth $320M in cash, plus earnout of up to $30M. As part of the acquisition, Stibel becomes Vice Chairman of Dun & Bradstreet. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 26, 2012

Clearwire's current 4G service has been available in Los Angeles since November of 2010; the service also powers 4G for Sprint, and most recently, NetZero and Cricket. The new LTE network is targeted at "hot zones" within those cities where there is high demand for 4G mobile broadband. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Santa Monica-based Docstoc , the online small business documents sharing and download site headed by Jason Nazar, said Tuesday that it has now hit more than 80,000 paying subscribers to the service, and over 20 million members. per month.

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JUNE 29, 2011

uSamp said the new office comes after triple digit revenue growth last year, and a doubling of its employees since 2010. uSamp provides online survey and panel services, allowing market researchers to conduct online panels. The firm said the new office is part of a European expansion for the company. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 23, 2011

comScore reported that in Q4 of 2010, 29.8 million Americans accessed their financial services accounts via a mobile device, a 54 percent increase from Q4 of 2009. million subscribers in Q4 of 2010. million subscribers in Q4 of 2009 to 10.8

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The firm provides edge network services to help deliver content from such customers as Twitter, Pinterest, Sony, and Hulu to end users. The big growth is not the first year of blockbuster growth at the company--the firm said last year that it also doubled its revenues between 2010 and 2011.

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

TCVN has been running its Survivor events for a number of years, with the last event being held in 2010. The prior events had awarded products and services to the winners--this looks to be the first year that the group is offering up an actual, cash investment to the winner.

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