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. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 Bottom of the sales funnel. The Exit Problem.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Zorik Gordon: We have 700 sales people, and nearly 20,000 local merchants already. That really gave us all the capabilities we needed from a product and technology perspective. Zorik Gordon: We're going to be moving pretty quickly with integration, and rolling out aggressively in 2011. We are extremely well positioned.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 29, 2011

This Black Friday we reached record retail sales at traditional brick-and-mortar stores, yet the merging Cyber Monday is proving to be a fighting younger brother. Rather, the online store is a speed machine built not on being soothed into what we need, but rather on the features and use of the product on it’s own.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. In the US alone there are 30 billion inbound sales calls every year. There are 2.9

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Advertisers are known for their creative focus, not focus on analytics. Did the TV stimulate search? He's been an integral advisor to us.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

When tickets went on sale over a month ago, we expected the regular ticket sales cycle, however we were more than surprised when Startup Weekend LA sold out in 6 hours! That’s right… just about the same amount of time it takes to sell out a Radiohead show at the Forum.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 26, 2011

This Black Friday we reached record retail sales at traditional brick-and-mortar stores, yet the merging Cyber Monday is proving to be a fighting younger brother. Rather, the online store is a speed machine built not on being soothed into what we need, but rather on the features and use of the product on it’s own.

Customer 72

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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. In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. Tell us about your backers?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

His firm works to infuse projects with the management, social and production assistance needed to break away from the pack. Garth Holsinger, VP of Global Sales and Business Development, Klout. GroupPrice was recently named in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 100 Brilliant Companies for 2011. Krishna Subramanian, Co-Founder, Mobclix.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

For example, goods for sale – people add items that are for sale, their contact details, images of the product. Location based advertising and marketing is something that’s been attempted but not yet perfected. There are also a few influencers in the Product lifecycle. With Mimiboard, we aim to bridge that gap.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. NastyGal -- which was just about unheard of a year ago -- has rocketed to a over $100M business, driven by women's clothing, shoes, and other products. HauteLook was acquired for $270M in 2011 by Nordstrom. The firm, based in Pasadena, has dozens of.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. 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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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. But one common theme I’m hearing from there in 2011 is that it’s impossible to recruit. Recruiting & retention will be different outside the Valley.

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socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2012

We then take that information and find trends and metadata, and all that content and sharing, and use it to drive e-commerce, and to design and manufacture apparel products. I started with a men's apparel brand doing marketing, creative, and branding, and worked on everything from production to design and manufacturing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

That couldn’t happen without the advent of lower cost production & distribution. And as we know the book industry is moving fully electronic with the advent of the Kindle making the costs of production & distribution nearly zero. Production costs have plummeted. Even a hundred. Think about music as another example.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

We discuss advertising, Vidzey’s story, technology, business, interns, and entertainment. Article 2 posed the question of “Where is advertising going in this new digital age?” He wasn’t the guy to figure out how to click and buy, but he did want to change the way we see advertising and entertainment.

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Entertainment Advertising Startup Media 98

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

I am a raving fan of AppSumo because the creator of the brand, Noah Kagan , leads his company focusing on community first and sales second. He disclosed the struggles he went through in building a solid productive team. And he showed us examples how implementing his team’s innovations directly sky rocketed company sales.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Founded in the summer of 2011 and their first product out a few weeks ago amSTATS wants to help users to follow fitness events and programs near them and find a great fitness trainer to help them stay fit. Bobby’s strong sales acumen, genuine charisma and leadership abilities make him an invaluable asset to the founding team.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. Given how Apple’s products are normally delivered to near perfection it is likely to be a huge holiday hit this year. So entering 2011 why does this matter?

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Cyrus Farudi is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Flipswap, Inc in 2004 and Capsule in 2011. Founded in 2011 with the goal of saving lives through soap, Jack’s gives one bar away every time one is sold. Cyrus Farudi – Co-founder of Capsule. Bridget Hilton – Founder of Jack’s Soap. Matt McKinney – Founder of TiesForCharity.com.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In Santa Monica, the median price of homes jumped 16% in the first eight months of 2012 compared with 2011, after a 9% decline over the same period the year before, according to Multiple Listing Service data compiled by Paul Habibi, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. 2012, compared with the same period in 2011.

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