Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 26, 2011

As customers shift online, retailers have no choice, to not only follow suit, but to adapt to their changing demands. Similarly, Shoedazzle.com, one small move away from complete customization, makes a dashboard of choice based on particular preferences and requests. It has gone beyond as the online customer exerts their power.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. dot-com bonanza. Ten years on much has changed.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Thursday, October 27, 2011 -- IEEE 2011 Energy Efficiency Symposium. Keynote speaker Dr. David Auston, Exec.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

PatientlySpeaking was founded in 2011. PatientlySpeaking's software is used for automating redundant daily tasks for those customers. According to Kareo, it will use the acquisition to expand its offerings to increase automation and efficiency. Kareo is led by CEO Dan Rodrigues.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 15, 2011

By 2011, the video had been. In 1987, when Rick Astley filmed the video for his hit song Never Gonna Give You Up, he had no idea it would eventually become one of the most viewed videos of all time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2013

In fact, damage to reputation and brand has moved up to #4 from #6 in the Top 10 risks identified in Aon's 2011 Global Risk Management Risk Ranking , moving ahead of business interruption and failure to innovate to meet customer needs. This intangible asset can represent more than 60% of a company's market value.

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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.

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JULY 22, 2013

Once upon a time, when the desktop PC was king, there were two kingdoms in the world of customer relationship management: ACT! The new startup goes head to head against Ferrara''s startup, Nimble , which has been looking to reinvent customer relationship management for the Internet and social age for a few years now. READ MORE>>.

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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.

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MAY 17, 2018

Oracle said it will add DataScience.com's platform to its Oracle Cloud, to allow its customers to "fully utilize" machine learning. The exit is the second big one for Swanson, who sold his last startup, Sometrics, a virtual currency monetization platform, to American Express in 2011.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

San Diego-based RapidEngage , a developer of online survey software and tools used to collect customer feedback and to engage users, has been acquired by fellow online survey company QuestionPro. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. RapidEngage was one of the companies incubated at EvoNexus.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The privately held firm did not disclose its revenues, however, the firm has previously been reported to have had revenues of between $50-100M in revenues in 2011, and $15-20M in revenues in 2009. The firm provides edge network services to help deliver content from such customers as Twitter, Pinterest, Sony, and Hulu to end users.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

IronKey, which develops encrypted USB flash drives, has been part of Imation since 2011. Kingston Digital, the flash memory arm of Kingston Technology, said the acquisition will help it provide a more comprehensive portfolio of products and services to its customers. Imation acquired IronKey in an asset deal in September of 2011.

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OCTOBER 28, 2013

Everbridge said the utility serves approximately 19,000 electric customers and 9,000 gas customers. Everbridge said the new contract came after Westfield released it did not have an emergency communications system in place during an ice storm in October of 2011. Financial impact of the win was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Slacker said Thursday that it will offer up a new Slacker Radio app on select Lexus models, and soon on select Toyota model years from 2011 to 2015. Slacker said the apps will give Toyota and Lexus owners the ability to create personalized, custom radio stations featuring news, comedy, and music.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

Guidance said that Ackerman had been head of worldwide sales and customer success for ServiceSource, heading up those efforts as that company grew from $25M to $285M in revenues, and through that company''s IPO in 2011. Ackerman joins the company from ServiceSource, and also had served at WNS North America and Exult. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Santa Monica-based EdgeCast Networks , the content delivery network (CDN) provider headed by Alex Kazerani, said today that it doubled its annual revenues and headcount in 2011, over its 2010 numbers. EdgeCast said it added more than a thousand customers in 2011, including such sites as DailyMotion, Imgur, and posterous.

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JULY 7, 2014

We caught up with Nelson Nahum , a longtime storage industry veteran and CEO of the company, to learn where Zadara fits and how it''s helping to move enterprise customers to the cloud. Speaking of the enterprise, where are those enterprise customers in trusting the cloud? Where are customers now in adoption of the cloud?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

The 2011 ARE is bound to go above and beyond last year’s event. If you are an AR Enthusiast – you will feel like a kid in a candy store at ARE 2011. Dates: May 17-18, 2011. ARE 2011 Sponsors: Qualcomm , Occipital , and Ogmento. For a complete list of confirmed business talk speakers visit the website at: [link].

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APRIL 20, 2015

InAuth says its customers include large global banks, payment processors, e-commerce merchants, and health insurance companies. The company was founded in 2011, and is led by. The funding came from Bain Capital Ventures. Bain''s Ben Nye will join the company''s board. Lisa Stanton. READ MORE>>.

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Eric Greenspan

JULY 3, 2012

Our customers benefitted from this and saved thousands over the years as a result. From 2008 to 2011, the company paid its own bills, we were cash flow positive and we believed we could maintain this trend indefinitely. But later in 2011, new customers slowed, appointment bookings slowed and average appointment time dropped.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based Interneer , a developer of software-as-a-service for the business process management market, reports that it had "record growth" in 2011. The firm, which did not disclose actual financial details or any growth figures, said its customers now include include Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc., Silliker, Inc.,

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

But only from customers. That’s because you are not their customer. The customer are advertising agencies and brands themselves. Unless you become a paying customer you’re just a cost center to them. I’d be driving them to merchants who want to reach their potential customers through me.

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

Broadcom said the new chip is sampling now to early access customers, with first commercial launches expected in Q1 of 2011. Broadcom's new BCM2157 dual-core, baseband processor includes functionality for mobile hot-spot, multiple touch screen, and other media and applications processing features. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 12, 2011

Friday, March 18, 2011 -- Customer Loyalty: Creating "Raving Fans" San Diego Software Industry Council. If your customers are not already part of your sales force, this workshop will teach you how to turn your customers into a group of motivated, passionate ambassadors for you and your company.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Thursday, September 15, 2011 -- Business Apps Reign King Thinking Beyond the Browser. Your customers are skipping the url and using apps for business. Learn how Mike Colombo, Partner and CEO, Partner at MAARK is helping his biggest B2B clients think beyond the browser and win the race for customers and sales productivity.

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JUNE 22, 2012

Fisker said it has now raised more than $1 billion in investments, and has generated revenues exceeding $100M from its customers. Fisker has been in the midst of its launch of its Karma, a plug-in hybrid, since July of 2011. The Karma retails for around $102,000. READ MORE>>.

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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.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Santa Monica-based CODA Automotive , the developer of electric cars, said today along with Essex Credit Corporation , a subsidiary of Bank of the West, to provide financing to customers of the 2011 CODA Sedan. According to CODA, financing from Essex can be found directly on CODA's website, or at retail locations at kiosks.

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MARCH 5, 2012

Nasty Gal is led by Sophia Amoruso, who started the company selling vintage clothing on eBay in 2006; the company says its now had over $28M in revenues in 2011, with revenues increasing around 500 percent each year. The brand says 35 percent of its sales occur outside of the US, and that it now has over 150,000 customers in 50 countries.

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JUNE 15, 2011

According to the school, SarGreetz is powering an effort which will welcome its incoming, 2011 freshman class with personalized welcome videos from high-profile alumni from the school. StarGreetz technology allows customers to provide personalized messages -- including a recipient's name -- in a video from a celebrity.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The firm said the cores allow customers to integrate Gigabit switch functionality into Ethernet ICs. Vitesse said the chips are available in two versions, one with GE switch functionality only, and the other also supporting Audio Video Bridging (AVB) including the IEEE 802.1AS-2011 timing and synchronization protocol. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 20, 2016

The company--which had just over 1,000 employees in 2014, and started with a mere 5 employees in 2011--says it now has five outsourcing centers in the Philippines.

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JULY 3, 2012

RealPage said yesterday that it has entered into a comprehensive settlement with Yardi over a set of lawsuits first filed in January of 2011.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 -- Think BIG. Founder and CEO Eric Greenspan used Extreme Customer Service to build his startup from a spare bedroom in his condo into a 38,000 customer business that just inked a deal with Costco. Technology Council's Entrepreneur Society. So you think you're an entrepreneur, huh?

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JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. People don’t want to speak to customer service reps. I don’t want to speak to customer service reps!!

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Tech.Co

MARCH 13, 2015

Founded in August of 2011, BloomNation is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and send unique bouquets handcrafted by local florists across the country. With our epic customer service and growing community of florists, BloomNation is the easiest and most reliable way for ordering flowers online.

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