Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Under Hsieh’s leadership, Zappos revolutionized the apparel industry, and e-commerce in general, by being one of the first to prioritize customer satisfaction and service. To build trust in e-commerce with the greater public, his company came up with innovative ideas and fostered new customer behaviors.

Commerce 206

Commerce Statistics Customer Custom 206

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Ensons's customers include Sony, Panasonic, and Toshiba. Universal Electronics said the acquisition will add at least $140M to its sales and $20M in operating income in its fiscal 2011. Tags: universal electronics merger acquisition enson assets international remote control.

Acquisition 124

Acquisition Entertainment Sales Customer 124

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The deal is worth $6M in upfront payments, plus payments linked to revenue in 2010/2011, and 2011/2012. employs approximately 600, who provide wireless product development, software engineering, and product testing for Kyocera Wireless, and also develops custom handsets for Indian service providers. to IT firm MindTree Ltd.,

Software Engineering 133

Software Engineering San Diego Competition Acquisition 133

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

million of its shares, upon the completion of an IPO before March 31, 2011. Tags: demand media domain domainer content merger acquisition legitscript. in additional, stock-based compensation to its executive officers, if the firm completes an IPO before March of next year. READ MORE>>.

Demand 194

Demand Media Santa Monica Report 194

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Here are 10: High Level of Content : Each PubCon track or sub-conference is focused on a specific aspect of marketing featuring topics that are important to your marketing and traffic-acquisition strategies. Your Clients, customers, and especially your competitors will attend. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Want to Sponsor?

SEO 64

SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 64

socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Exits Down in 2011 - One of the most popular stories to be read on the site--perhaps. 2011, showing a reduced number of exits--but more IPOs--in venture backed companies. Virgin Galactic Gets FAA Launch Permit - In May, Virgin Galactic was. granted an experimental launch permit from the Federal Aviation Administration, the next step.

Southern California 211

Southern California Thousand Oaks Incubator SpaceX 211

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies said this morning that it has acquired VariSystems , a Canadian supplier of custom harsh environment interconnects, used in the oil and gas industry. in its fiscal year ended May 31, 2011. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Thousand Oaks 133

Thousand Oaks Resource Sales Customer 133

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Here are 10: High Level of Content : Each PubCon track or sub-conference is focused on a specific aspect of marketing featuring topics that are important to your marketing and traffic-acquisition strategies. Your Clients, customers, and especially your competitors will attend. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Want to Sponsor?

SEO 40

SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 40

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

We've only got 40-45 people, versus if you look at a Verizon or AT&T, where they have tens of thousands of people having to support their network and provide customer support. Our customer support is in-house, and we have a light-touch customer support model, and we don't have to manage a massive network.

Startup 245

Startup IP Networking Encino 245

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. In 2011 the company was sold to Nordstrom for $270 million in a deal that has been widely seen as a success for both buyer and seller.

Venture Capital 360

Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. You mentioned that you've been growing the company recently, and made a recent acquisition? We also just made an acquisition of Jovian over the summer. He's been an integral advisor to us.

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Those services work on volume, and the designs you can send--and which you receive--are from a limited selection, not at all personalized to the recipient, and for the florist delivering the flowers, provides slim margins and no opportunity to build a customer base. Farbod Shoraka: We started out in the summer of 2011. READ MORE>>.

Beverly Hills 157

Beverly Hills Technical Review Design Startup 157

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

What kinds of customers are using your service? Daniel Scalisi: We've got many nationally recognized organizations, including the Children's Miracle Network, the National Breast Cancer Association, the Humane Society, which are just a few of our customers. We've gotten over 80 paying customers in our five months we've been deployed.

Mobile 162

Mobile Web Startup Customer 162

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer 2011 Judges! After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of July 4th, 2011.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

That system was launched as its own, separate company in late 2011. We''ve build some evolutionary technology for Microsoft customers, so they can move forward and distribute their computing into the cloud, or use whatever future technology on their roadmap might ask them to do. I moved to the states with my first acquisition.

Startup 198

Startup Yahoo Software Education 198

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

Based in LA, and launched in 2011 by Eric M. Jackson and Christopher Grey, CapLinked empowers its clients to manage complex business transactions such as mergers & acquisitions, financings, asset sales, and investor reporting. New Clients To Manage Complex Business Transactions. Easy To Set Up.

Draper 68

Draper Google Software Engineering Invest 68

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

While Google and Facebook will buy “acquihires” (at least as of Dec 2011), many acquirers hate the idea of buying companies that aren’t profitable. When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?”

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall 2011 Judges! A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Custom ad deals and partnerships.

Tech Coast Angels 96

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates. From 2009 to 2011, Launchpad LA accepted 23 companies of which 19 received outside funding of around $80 million in aggregate, and 9 have been acquired to-date exceeding $60 million in proceeds.

GRP Partners 96

GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Exposure to customers, incumbents, and competitors all drive success. Being close to your customers, your vendors, or even your competitors can make all the difference. Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state. Finding talent and financing isn’t the only hurdle to overcome on the road to startup success.

Startup 102

Startup Technical Review Oracle Entrepreneur 102

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. Sign up customers who are paying you money for a service you can’t 100% guarantee is going to be operational for the full period that they’re expecting. I didn’t want to disappoint my customers. I didn’t sleep much back then. And yet you have to.

Blogging 420

Blogging Press Entrepreneur Venture Capital 420

SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

And it certainly seems to have worked with reports of: Branchout has seen explosive growth in January 2011, growing from 10K to 250K monthly users, with a total usership now in the hundreds of thousands. Instead, I want to look at how they've integrated themselves with Facebook and particularly how they engage users to help viral spread.

Examples 331

Examples Startup Course Networking 331

SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

And it certainly seems to have worked with reports of: Branchout has seen explosive growth in January 2011, growing from 10K to 250K monthly users, with a total usership now in the hundreds of thousands. Instead, I want to look at how they've integrated themselves with Facebook and particularly how they engage users to help viral spread.

Examples 323

Examples Startup Course Networking 323

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

and most recently Myspace, where he ran an online marketing team focused on SEO, social media, and paid traffic acquisition. GroupPrice was recently named in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 100 Brilliant Companies for 2011. Tony has previously worked for organizations like PayPal, Yahoo! Krishna Subramanian, Co-Founder, Mobclix.

SEO 85

SEO CTO Coach Conference Social Media 85

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of October 16th, 2011. Contact us at sponsor@techzulu.com.

Tsavo 76

Tsavo Idealab Tech Coast Angels Userplane 76

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

It’s clear things have changed for good and the need for managing remote communities of employees, customers and partners has become ever more important. In marketing materials founders often refer to their customer base as a “community”, but there’s a huge gap between having customers and creating a community.

Software 234

Software Startup Tool Platform 234

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Who are the typical customers for your products? It's a month-to-month rental, although many of our customers buy the product--but they can do it on an operations budget. I think that there might be cash toward the end of 2010 or 2011, where IPOs might be reasonable. The pharmacy uses lots of passive barcoding and interrogators.

Startup 113

Startup CTO Hire Resource Venture Capital 113

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Even though their business model was tweaked a little while ago to give customers additional leniency, the business is still expecting to break $100 million in revenue this year, up from $25 million in 2010. Adam Goldenberg – JustFab.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

While running my family wine business , I used Twitter’s search for market research and to find new customers. Why is Twitter’s user acquisition at a standstill , and why are their ad products failing? Sometime in 2011, I started to notice that the content I was putting out on Twitter was not getting the attention that it used to.

Platform 40

Platform Startup News Content 40

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Sizhao “Zao” Yang – COO and Co-founder at BetterWorks.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Venices median home price in the first eight months of 2012 broke the $1 million barrier, rising to $1,012,000 from $899,000 in the first eight months of 2011.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. The numbers of potential buyers had decreased dramatically both because large companies were shedding jobs and because many past buyers simply lacked resources to make acquisitions. The Exit Problem.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." The 11 Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur - OnStartups , November 1, 2010 There's always talk about the end game in the form of an acquisition, funding announcement, or eventual flame out. No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. They controlled distribution to the masses. They had mail, IM, groups, answers, etc.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378