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.

Beverly Hills 157

Beverly Hills Technical Review Design Startup 157

socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2009

According to the firm--which is traded OTC--the restricted common stock investment by Guthy-Renker also came with an extension of an agreement the two companies have until June 2011. READ MORE>>.

Commerce 100

Commerce Invest Equity Los Angeles 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Yammer 104

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. Rinse & repeat. It takes options off of the table. You have a hunch.

Development Team Review 374

Development Team Review Technical Review Startup Resource 374

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Teens fueled that growth when in 2011 12% of teens reported using Twitter. Brands need influencers working on their behalf because they provide the third-party credibility and social proof that validates their products. If you can figure out why people care about your product, you’ll have success regardless of the platform du jour.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media Marketing Platform 100

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

He's now hard at work at a new company, Kaleo, which is tackling the enterprise, knowledge sharing market�and already has an impressive list of Fortune 500 customers. We're trying to save companies money, and increase the productivity of employees. The idea of waiting, asking, and waiting for answers is gone.

El Segundo 169

El Segundo Southern California Startup CTO Hire 169

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Ian Miller: FatCloud is a data management and software platform company with a NoSQL database. It''s a distributed data platform built for scale, and build for accelerated application development. That company had done a number of very large products for clients like Yahoo and CBS. We know that FatDB scales extremely well.

Startup 198

Startup Yahoo Software Education 198

socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Jon Ferrara was co-founder of Goldmine software, a huge customer relationship management (CRM) provider which he built into a $100M business in the PC age, and is now working on doing the same thing in the age of the cloud, with another CRM startup, Nimble (www.nimble.com). That allowed us to deliver a scalable solution for our customers.

Startup 113

Startup Canoga Park Email Google 113

socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2013

Pharmaceutical companies spent $20 billion a year marketing their products to medical offices. Dan Gilman: We provide a cloud-based platform for medical practices to more efficiently coordinate and communicate with representatives, from pharmaceutical and other medical companies who are calling on their practice. What is RxVantage?

Marketing 231

Marketing Software Education Startup 231

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

“The object is to exploit the convergence of people, information, products, services and places with today’s smartphones and tablets, which drive online orders in addition to purchases from brick-and-mortar stores.”. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms. Getting Mobile-Ready.

Mobile 85

Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

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. 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.

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In 2011 Hello Music became the fastest growing musician-focused company in the U.S We have 100,000 customers walking through the doors of our service every single day, and we are laser-focused on bringing them the very best opportunities.” ” Hello Music has successfully created a new ecosystem and platform for musicians.

Los Angeles 64

Los Angeles Platform Media Activity 64

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

We give way 500Mb of free data to all of our users, and users can also early additional, free minutes for connecting to their friends on the platform and participating on partner offers and promotions. 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

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer 2011 Judges! a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. wonder what that might be?

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

Founded in 2011, Z Supply, LLC has created five women’s fashion brands with a sixth brand and extension into Men’s, launching Spring 2017. I ended up really relating to the nuance and intricacies of product supply and customer demand. That being said, we were getting inundated with inquiries regarding where to find our product.

Sites 100

Sites Sales Santa Barbara Design 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

We came in and reorganized the product, team, and mission, and redeployed it in June of this year. What kinds of customers are using your service? We've gotten over 80 paying customers in our five months we've been deployed. Email is becoming ineffective, and by 2011 there will be three times more smart phones than computers.

Mobile 162

Mobile Web Startup Customer 162

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

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Social analytics and personalization platform GraphDive has closed $2 million in its first ever equity round from Crosslink Capital, Correlation Ventures, Plug & Play Tech Center, Start Capital and angel investors Pejman Nozad, Ullas Naik and Scott Banister. $2 We offer a suite of products to grow revenues.

Equity 65

Equity Social Media Google Tool 65

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

It’s payments API allows platforms and marketplaces to accept payments for their customers without pre-existing merchant accounts. The name came from the earliest iteration of our product, which helped groups of people pool money for shared expenses. Rich oversees the company’s product and marketing effort.

Startup 71

Startup Tool Capital Customer 71

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2011

Webdoc is a web platform that allows you to easily create interactive posts mixing different web contents through a simple and intuitive drag & drop interface. When you develop a new product, especially one that is disrupting existing habits you are constantly integrating user feedback. Your goals, new products, new direction?

Startup 97

Startup Web Content Media 97

InfoChachkie

JULY 30, 2012

I always enjoy a great guerilla marketing story, such as TestFlight’s use of T-shirts and Tacos to gain Steve Jobs’ attention at Apple’s 2011 developers’ conference. This initial, casual conversation led to a deeper discussion about the company’s products. Central Desktop’s angel was amusing without alienating potential customers.

Marketing 209

Marketing Conference RSS Angel 209

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

Cloud-based business transactions platform, CapLinked ,today announced additional investors and the final results of its Series A financing round totaling to $2.1 Jackson added that the firm was proud of its product, and even uses its own software to manage their capital raised from investors. Over $3M Raised. Easy To Set Up.

Draper 68

Draper Google Software Engineering Invest 68

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

ZunguZ is a global social payment platform that integrates deeply into the social graph of Facebook and financial service providers. As we know, developers always give their product a code name. We may keep the platform with the name ZunguZ and look for a client facing name for the application. What is Zunguz? Why the name?

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Event Details. to 10:30 p.m.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. They hit the coveted one million user milestone and within two years a billion tweets had been sent on the platform. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. It had strong platform usage.

Platform 40

Platform Startup News Content 40

socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2012

Talk about what your products are used for? Kian Saneii: What we have is a platform that helps all sorts of channel partners, including family members, assisted living facilities, home care and home health providers, and even insurance companies, help the elderly to stay home longer and more comfortably. READ MORE>>.

Software Review 140

Software Review Cloud Computing Startup Technical Review 140

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. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m.

Tech Coast Angels 96

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

May 4, 2011 was the official launch date). We are a logistics platform that enables three things: 1. Businesses delivering their products & goods to their customers. Businesses delivering their products & goods to their customers. A few months later, Zipments was born. Zipments focuses on delivery.

Los Angeles 79

Los Angeles Angel Examples Mobile 79

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

It gives music companies a direct pipeline to market their products and services to music fans. Their team is a small group of technology-minded innovators who are committed to doing things differently — from automotive design, manufacturing and distribution, to service needs and the entire customer experience. Attend and Support.

CalTech 100

CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Recycling Waste Platform. 28 year old Allison Carmen’s Material Mix began operations in June and she says its helping waste and recycling professionals reduce operating expenses and recover investment on inventory via a dynamic, web-based, customer regulated exchange platform with supply chain management tools.

San Diego 55

San Diego Education Platform Web 55

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. GroupPrice was recently named in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 100 Brilliant Companies for 2011. He is currently also consulting as Social Producer at CBS News for their show What’s Trending.

SEO 85

SEO CTO Coach Conference Social Media 85

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Product Development: philosophie. By using SteelHouse, ecommerce sites can use live data to instantly respond to a customer’s wants and needs for stronger transaction values, increased conversion rates, and an overall better customer experience. Fun Fact: Technology is in their DNA. Incubator: Amplify LA.

Startup 111

Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

We want to provide our audience with not only amazing presenting startups/newly released products (submissions still open Apply Here ) but also outstanding people that can help you grow as an entrepreneur and lead a successful business. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of October 16th, 2011.

Tsavo 76

Tsavo Idealab Tech Coast Angels Userplane 76

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

TenHands was Incorporated on January 11, 2011 and launched its first alpha service in November of 2011, private beta in April 2011 and open beta in July 2012. Our first-of-its-kind architecture yields a delivery cost model that is highly disruptive and that translates to great affordability for our customers.

Cloud Computing 65

Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

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

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

We did some informal research toward the end of 2011 when the “pinning” phenomenon emerged because we found it very interesting. We’re fortunate that our primary investors are also very active Board Members who are working with us closely to build a great product that’s engaging for users. What inspired you to launch LoveIt?

Organization 90

Organization Content Tool Blogging 90

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." By doing the job.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175