socalTECH

JULY 22, 2013

If you were in sales, you either ran ACT!, and Goldmine faded away, no longer the two kings of the sales CRM world. So far, Nimble has the edge, as the Santa Monica company has been offering up its products to the market since 2011, and Contatta just announced the company and has yet to launch its own software.

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APRIL 17, 2013

Pasadena-based X1 Discovery , the Idealab-backed developer of enterprise search and electronic discovery software, said Wednesday that it has added Ingram Micro as a distributor. X1 Discovery has recently been expanding its enterprise ambitions, having been spun out from consumer-focused X1 back in 2011. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 22, 2012

Pasadena-based LeisureLink , the developer of a vacation rental marketplace and software, said that its relationship with travel site Travelocity is paying off for its clients.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2012

San Luise Obispo-based Shopatron , the developer of e-commerce software for brand manufacturers, reports today that it added a total of 85 new clients in the sporting goods industry during 2011. The firm said those clients included K2, Rossignol, Powderhorn, Quickpoles, Academy Snowboard, and Bolle, among many others.

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Commerce Sales Competition Report 196

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Aliso Viejo-based Smith Micro Software , which develops software for the wireless industry, said late Tuesday evening that it is suspending its 2011 annual revenue guidance, and will withdraw from a investment conference this week, after it says orders from a "key customer" will fall below expected levels. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2011

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 -- ExecTec - Up in the Cloud. Will iCloud do for Software as a Service (SaaS) what iTunes has done to traditional music sales? What cloud based services are you using? How many are you paying for? Is there potential for real enterprise level SaaS solutions?

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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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APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. “How much is that software really worth?

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Convertro's software then helps apply that information to retarget ads and present ads to users. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 6, 2011

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 -- Content World Turned Upside Down: Can Traditional Media Adapt? TCOSC Digital Media Society. Every aspect of the business of entertainment media and other content providers, and their traditional sources of revenue, are under assault by disruptive business models.

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Content Technology Council TCOSC Cloud Computing 113

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. “COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

For our Friday interview, we thought we'd catch up with Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the Elevation Partners-backed software provider, to hear where the firm is nowadays. Wes Nichols: I'd say that for 2011, what we are going to see is a dramatic rollout of our software. Did the TV stimulate search?

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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). Congrats on being accepted to Microsoft's Accelerator. Explain that?

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

OpenX is profitable, and its ad serving software dominant among online publishers. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. HauteLook was acquired for $270M in 2011 by Nordstrom. range of software products, and which has offices in Calabasas and Santa Barbara. LiveNation.

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Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. Would Microsoft have been such a powerful global business if IBM had recognized the importance of software as an independent phenomenon from hardware? And 18 months later, in May 2011, I have crossed 422,000 views. Just like a sales person at the end of a quarter.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

That can be a subject matter expert, product head, a sales head, any category in the enterprise, and they can use our lightweight platform for answers. This was her pain point, back in our early days in 2011, and at that time, social was starting to become big. However, I think all companies now are okay with trying new software here.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

Jackson said, “We’re using the proceeds from our financing round to invest in our technology, build new features, and increase sales and support.”. Jackson added that the firm was proud of its product, and even uses its own software to manage their capital raised from investors. Based in LA, and launched in 2011 by Eric M.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

It's a huge development task to develop your own mobile application, connect into Facebook, and create an online ordering system--unless you use the software from ChowNow (www.chownow.com), one of the newest startups to get funding here in Los Angeles. For folks who haven't used ChowNow, what does the software do?

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Mobile Startup Platform GRP Partners 197

socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

We are focused on the investment in and acquisition of software firms that are generating $2.5M They've grown their businesses through word of mouth more than through a large, established sales organization and they have done that by building a software product that is very well received, and unique in their particular niche market.

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Acquisition Software Review Technical Review Equity 168

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. The results were so encouraging, we’re doing it again. Financial terms were not disclosed. Webroot withheld terms of the deal.).

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San Diego Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Startup 40

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. We''ll mostly be doing enterprise sales here, but also looking at the technology and design front, hiring better talent, taking design to a new level than maybe what we are in China. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. Everyone else is Chinese.

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Southern California Startup SoCal CTO Hire 170

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. Shoesofprey.com have built an easy-to-use online software to build your own shoe, order, and have shipped to your door for any occasion or mood.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer 2011 Judges! Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of July 4th, 2011. wonder what that might be?

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

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. Shoesofprey.com have built an easy-to-use online software to build your own shoe, order, and have shipped to your door for any occasion or mood.

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Customer Custom Demand Advertising 72

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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Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall 2011 Judges! Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of October 16th, 2011. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. From 2006 to 2011, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York, according to Wessel, has grown by almost 65%. The list goes on and on.

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Startup Technical Review Oracle Entrepreneur 102

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. Umuntu received funding in September 2011 – the amount was approx. We will adopt the Software as a Service model, where we will have a Free version and a Paid for version. US $1 million from Eva Fund.

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Advertising Media News Content 91

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon). o Early on they hired 3 people from ACT software at once (more team hiring) on staff and supplement it with Agency (in LA worked with First Communications – good). He told them it was now or never.

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Acquisition Startup Customer Custom 304

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

We built a Proof of Concept in 2010, went into closed beta in 2011 and opened up to the public in Dec 2012. They then headed back to the USA and UK to get comment and advice on the platform, after which they returned to South Africa, made the enhancements and launched a closed beta in 2011. When was it launched?

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Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Huge structural under-employment in much of the country and full employment in some niche tech markets where it’s impossible to hire developers, designers or sales professionals. I remember in the late 90′s trying to charge fair prices for software when my well-financed competitors were giving things away for free.

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Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

We heard how Jeff transitioned from a start-up founder to an institutional investor when he helped found Amplify towards the end of 2011. Prior to launching the Accelerator, Jeff conceived and built Leads 360 in his spare time while running his software consultancy, ThinkLogic. Unwinding at an Amplify party.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

We are a minimally invasive install, we don't interfere with any existing products, are interoperable with a whole bunch of systems, and because we're web based you can tie into anyone else's system out there, wither it's an electronic medical records, order entry, preventative maintenance, or other software. We have an almost no-risk model.

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Startup CTO Hire Resource Venture Capital 113

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

As an author, social entrepreneur and the former “Chief Popsicle” of Feverish Ice Cream, Hatcher was named one of the Empact 100 Top 100 Entrepreneurs under the age of 30 by the White House and Kauffman Foundation in 2011 and a 2014 White House Champion of Change for STEM Access and Diversity. Siggi Hindrichs, Principal at Samsung NEXT.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

According to Forrester Research (2011 report) 77% users who abandoned an online purchase cite the inability to speak to some as their primary reason for leaving. Here’s some other things you might find interesting: There are around 20 billion in-bound sales calls in the US each year. Again, I have the data that proves it.

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Mobile Technical Review Google Screening 311

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

We heard how Jeff transitioned from a start-up founder to an institutional investor when he helped found Amplify towards the end of 2011. Prior to launching the Accelerator, Jeff conceived and built Leads 360 in his spare time while running his software consultancy, ThinkLogic. Unwinding at an Amplify party.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry. 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. Morning in VC.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347