Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The race to get your SXSWi panel to as many votes as possible so that you will be selected to present at the coming 2012 SXSW. Strategy to Get Your First 100 Paying Customers (bigMETHOD, Mixergy, Appsumo, Zaarly). Its that time again! Can Newspapers Appeal to a Younger Audience. How Are Newsrooms Evolving in the Age of iPad?

Southern California 89

Southern California SoCal Guide Mixergy 89

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

But only from customers. That’s because you are not their customer. But they make the overwhelming majority of their money from advertising. They are selling audiences to advertisers. Whenever I talk about advertising people comment how much everybody hates ads. Tech Companies most certainly do take calls.

Mobile 311

Mobile Technical Review Google Screening 311

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

Platform 82

Platform Help Custom Customer 82

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

However, its unique-for-the-industry monthly subscription model has helped it maintain healthy profits from its loyal customer base in 2023. What started as a weekend project in 2012 is now a global marketplace that attracted 55.2 Organic milk formula product Bobbie. Tome Tome is another AI startup that's been causing a stir in 2023.

Startup 210

Startup Generative AI Newsletter Tool 210

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. So it is unsurprising that an over-funding environment and the commensurate returns hangover would have lasted until about – well – 2012.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

The consumer piece is a big part of our business, and the next big piece is the advertiser platform, plus everything we wrap around the advertiser experience, helping them to manage their content, and provide great reporting, and helping them to understand the ROI of doing business with us. When did the split with AT&T happen?

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

A consumer piece is a big part of our business, and the next big piece is the advertiser platform, plus everything we wrap around the advertisers experience, helping them to manage their content, and provide great reporting, and helping them to understand the ROI of doing business with us. When did the split with AT&T happen?

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it. As companies get this initial customer feedback on their product they start to have to ask harder questions about unit economics: How much does it cost us to acquire a new customer?

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Custom Customer 286

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Scott Cannon: We started in 2012, when it was basically a couple of people on a telephone and the yellow pages. They were putting online advertisements through Google Ads to solicit people to rent equipment, who could not figure it out on their own. From a customer standpoint, though, it's pretty clear. So where are you now?

Startup 174

Startup Metrics Custom Customer 174

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

Robert Blatt: We say to people that we do customer experience for multi-location brands. Our platform enables them to manage the digital representation of their locations, and engage with consumers in paid, social, and search, to improve that customer experience. So what does your customer look like nowadays? ,p>

Google 127

Google Paid Search Mobile Activity 127

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Nanxi Liu: We started the company in the summer of 2012, with five totally random people. We put our software onto computer chips, which are the size of your credit card, and we give it to customers without charge. media social advertising open software display entrepreneur startup interview nanxi' READ MORE>>.

Social Media 178

Social Media Media Startup Culver City 178

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). People don’t want to speak to customer service reps. I don’t want to speak to customer service reps!! There are 2.9 Not so fast.

Email 339

Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2013

Customized content. Done so by allowing them the ability to build and customize modules, embed them throughout their web properties, and identify quality user generated video content to publish through the Squabbler platform. The publishers using Squabbler are able to create, customize and deploy vidoes in less than 5 minutes.

Metrics 79

Metrics Platform Content Web 79

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. She focused on her customer. The premise is that you should blog for your customers, suppliers and ecosystem – not for your peers. How’s that for an ex painter? Sam just told me, “You HAVE to meet Tracy.

Startup 363

Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

They feel very confident they can hit $18 – 20 million in 2012. So assume that in 2012 the company would do $20 million in sales and $2 million in profits (10%) and 2013 they would do sales of $25 million and $4 million in profit (16% net margin) and then slow growth in 2014 to $30 million and $6 million in profit (20% profit).

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2012

It highlights the story of how United Airlines in 2008 paid no attention to social media as Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. Customers today trust those they know and those they see others trusting. Increase customer leads and conversion. Maximize customer retention.

Social Media 79

Social Media Media Marketing Platform 79

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Their unique “provide value to customers first” mantra sets them apart in the digital signage industry. We discuss the serendipitous circumstances that brought the founding team together (one of the most unique founder stories I’ve heard to date) and move to topics surrounding the future of digital advertising.

Social Media 106

Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 106

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. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television.

Venture Capital 360

Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

During this year’s 2012 Consumer Electronic Show (#CES), we were sponsors to the demoing of the new venue management solution from the nightclub and nightlife web application called SocialNightLife.com. That customer service has continued to be improved as SocialNightlife.com enters the possible last weeks in a private beta.

Social Media 87

Social Media Web Media Platform 87

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Their unique “provide value to customers first” mantra sets them apart in the digital signage industry. We discuss the serendipitous circumstances that brought the founding team together (one of the most unique founder stories I’ve heard to date) and move to topics surrounding the future of digital advertising.

Social Media 81

Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 81

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Foursquare has raised more than $112 million in outside funding, on $2 million in revenue in 2012.

Sites 84

Sites Content Sales Startup 84

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

Marketers see it as a better way to target customers, but the current consumer offerings have been slow to deliver. Sponsorships and advertising. then you may want to consider potential sponsorships or advertising opportunities with that business or venue. Incentives or rewards.

Services 82

Services Competition Mobile Entertainment 82

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2013

Customers go there to check on the details of your offerings and verify that you are not a scam, investors look there to check out your management and sales approach, and suppliers expect to find contact information. Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer. Viral marketing needs a website.

Web 99

Web Startup Sites Design 99

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

Michael Chasin: The most challenging part of any startup is getting in front of people, and finding customers. So, advertising and targeting people who need you at the right time is the biggest problem. What''s the most challenging thing you''ve run across and what have you learned through this process so far?

Help 240

Help Startup CTO Hire Pricing 240

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

On one end, entrepreneurs who have (at minimum) built something customers love and are willing to pay for, and the other hand, investors who are looking for the very companies who fit that profile. You’ve built a great business, your customers love you. And those who have gone through the process, know. Where SeedInvest Sprouted.

Invest 100

Invest Startup Technical Review Software Review 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. They controlled distribution to the masses.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

It generates revenues through Subscription, Virtual Currency and Advertising. Wilson joined Paltalk from Zynga/OMGPOP where he was Chief Revenue Officer of the New York City based developer/publisher social mobile games company, which was sold to Zynga in 2012 for $210 Million. Custom ad deals and partnerships.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire’s business model focuses on providing complete application solutions to businesses, while its open API enables applications to be customized in virtually any fashion. CallFire technology is already playing a prominent role in 2012 political races across the spectrum.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network. They are dedicated to providing high-availability systems, beautiful user interfaces, furious developer support and unparalleled customer care. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers!

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The top five tournaments for “StarCraft 2″ in the month of June 2012 had combined prize-pools of over $150,000. If you said 6 million (as of April 2012), you’d be close, because JustFab is growing by nearly to 500,000 members a month. In 2012, ShoeDazzle jumped from 3 to 13 million members. Thanks to our advertisers.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Check out the inaugural Startup UCLA companies, as self-described, below: Accelsor – Accelsor simplifies custom website creation into a single step by eliminating the prototyping and coding stages. by Michael Carney on September 13, 2012. Thanks to our advertisers. George Thiruvathukal. Got A News Tip? Pando Daily Home.

UCLA 47

UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Going So-Lo: How Brands are Driving Sales & Personalizing Customer Experiences with Social, Location-Based Marketing. Thursday: Advertising and Marketing. Created by founder Toby Daniels , Social Media Week Los Angeles will focus this series of discussions around the theme of “Empowering Change Through Collaboration.”

Social Media 92

Social Media Los Angeles Media Angel 92

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network. CallFire provides Voice and SMS Solutions to over 40,000 customers including political groups, non-profits, insurance agents, small business owners, and marketers. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program.

Idealab 77

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

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. October 5, 2012. 2012, compared with the same period in 2011. million in the first eight months of 2012, a 20.4% VENICE RISING. County: 0.9%.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network. CallFire provides Voice and SMS Solutions to over 40,000 customers including political groups, non-profits, insurance agents, small business owners, and marketers. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Listen in to learn why Swiftkey chose to focus on Android first, and how it rose to the best-selling Android app of 2012. What’s the most valuable kind of customer? Half of Marmalade’s customers use it as a porting platform, while the remaining 50 percent use it as an app development framework.

Mobile 71

Mobile Technical Review Platform Startup 71

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. With access to billions of mobile impressions and cutting-edge location technology we make sure that your message reaches customers ready to buy what you sell. © 2012 IdeaMensch. Idea Mensch. where entrepreneurs share their stories.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78