SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 8, 2012

Thursday, June 14, 2012 -- The Customer Experience of User Experience. Jeofrey Bean and Sean Van Tyne will share their aggregate views of some of the best customer experience and user experience companies and the practices that make them better, different, and more valuable than their competitors. See [link] (more)

Custom 113

Custom Customer Services Product 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 23, 2012

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 -- ExecTec - The Customer is Wrong! They say the Customer is always right! Inspired by strategicsenseinc's blog post 3 Reasons Why the Customer Is Not Always Right, I wanted to explore what happens when the customer is not right. But what if they are wrong? See [link] (more)

Custom 100

Custom Customer Blogging 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

The point of PUCCKA was to develop a common methodology to make sure our whole team approaches sales with the same mindset and to give us a language to talk with each other about our prospects, as in, “have you identified your customers pain point yet?”. The goal is to get the customer speaking about their organization.

Sales 367

Sales Slides Startup Customer 367

socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Santa Monica-based Nimble is claiming it has seen record growth this quarter, for the company''s customer relationship management tools. times, year-over-year growth in revenues between Q3 2012 and Q3 2012, a 5x increase in users, and signups from over 150 countries. growth saas tools management relationship customer nimble'

Santa Monica 164

Santa Monica SaaS Tool Customer 164

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

ReachLocal explained the offices is part of a continued international and domestic expansion for the company: it is planning on opening up another European country this quarter, and its first Asian country in the first quarter of 2012. The company says it now has local presence in 11 international markets and 46 North American markets.

ReachLocal 247

ReachLocal Woodland Hills Advertising Web 247

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Santa Monica-based content delivery network (CDN) provider EdgeCast said this morning that it doubled its revenues in 2012, and now has more than 225 employees. The firm provides edge network services to help deliver content from such customers as Twitter, Pinterest, Sony, and Hulu to end users.

Steamboat Ventures 240

Steamboat Ventures Santa Monica Hulu Content 240

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 -- Loving Your Customer: the Art and Science of Social CRM. Social Media Club LA. See [link] (more)

Custom 100

Custom Customer Social Media Media 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2013

Santa Monica-based cloud telephony provider Callfire , which develops cloud-based telephony services used to automate phone calls and voice applications, reported today that it had record growth in 2012. The company said it saw revenue growth of 58 percent for the company. Actual financials were not disclosed by the company. cents per minute.

Santa Monica 173

Santa Monica Statistics Startup Report 173

socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2014

Everbridge said that Vocal has over 1,000 customers over 83 countries, and provided the emergency messaigng system for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Both companies provide emergency notification and incident rsponse, including automated calls and texts, for businesses and government. READ MORE>>.

Glendale 182

Glendale Acquisition Services Customer 182

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

DriveCam , the San Diego startup developing technology which analyzes and tracks the performance of commercial fleet drivers, reported this morning that it has just reached over $100M in 2012 sales. DriveCam said the revenue growth came due to global expansion, strategic partnerships, and continued growth within its customer fleets.

Tech Coast Angels 157

Tech Coast Angels Carson Technical Review San Diego 157

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

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

According to Dreamhost, all of the startups accepted into MuckerLab's program throughout 2012 will receive one year of free web hosting services from Dreamhost, including fully managed servers. Dreahost has over 300,000 customers, and hosts 1.2 Dreamhost has been in the area since it was founded in 1997. million domain names.

Southern California 200

Southern California Web Mentor Los Angeles 200

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2012 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2012. Custom ad deals and partnerships. 24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica. Contact us at sponsor@techzulu.com.

Tech Coast Angels 105

Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

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

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Despite the fact that JazzHR was a nascent startup in 2012, it boasted an impressive customer […]. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. The post This Startup Should Have Fired Uber, Tinder, Pinterest, Dropbox, Evernote, Tumblr, HootSuite and Instagram appeared first on John Greathouse.

Startup 88

Startup Customer Custom 88

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

MaintenanceNet apparently has been seeing good customer uptake of its software; the firm reported a few weeks ago it had increased its revenue by 115 percent and staffing by 60 percent in 2012. billion in service contracts for its customers last year.

Outsource Development 164

Outsource Development Software Report Sales 164

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

DECEMBER 31, 2012

What was Southern California's technology community most interested in 2012? numbers should be released in the next week for 2012. BetterWorks--headed by prolific angel investor Paige Craig--apparently was not able to sustain a large enough market, relative to its high costs of customer acquisition. As 2012 turned.

Southern California 211

Southern California Thousand Oaks Incubator SpaceX 211

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

With Darkstore, companies like Nike, Adidas and Levis are able to offer same-day delivery to customers by storing their products inside Darkstore’s urban fulfillment centers. While all of the products available on FastAF will come from a Darkstore, not all of the retailers featured in FastAF are Darkstore customers.

Product 236

Product Commerce Los Angeles Demand 236

socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2012

Santa Ana-based SRS Labs , the developer of surround sound and other audio processing technology, said today that Samsung will use its technology in its 2012 6000 series of flat-panel TVs. SRS Labs will provide its SRS TheaterSound HD technology to Samsung's flat panel TV customers. Samsung is an existing customer of SRS.

Customer 138

Customer Custom Technology Develop 138

socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2012

The company said the acquisition will help with improved customer acquisition and retention of its current customer, allow it to target a new segment of consumers with new banking and payment products, as well as let it enter the mobile wallet, reward, and payment market. READ MORE>>.

Monrovia 150

Monrovia Social Network Mobile Acquisition 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2012

The competition never stands still, and new opportunities are evolving, based on culture changes in your customers, new technologies, and new problems in the world which need to be solved. Look for competitors that have the same capabilities as you in a different market area, or for different customers. Hire people smarter than you.

Startup 98

Startup Customer Custom Entrepreneur 98

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

According to the two, the deal allows Netflix customers to view prior season cable and broadcast TV series. Beverly Hills-based NBC Universal Domestic Television DIstribution and DVD rental provider Netflix said Friday that they have expanded a license agreement covering streaming of NBC TV shows.

Netflix 159

Netflix Beverly Hills Hollywood Content 159

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2010

The electric utility said that it started installing smart meters starting in September 2009, with a plan to install five million smart meters for both residential and small business customers by the end of 2012.

Southern California 150

Southern California SoCal Demand Customer 150

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Los Angeles-based Just says it uses telematics “to reward safe drivers and reduce insurer bias” by looking at factors such as how, when and where customers drive, rather than factors such as ZIP code or marital status as most traditional insurers do. There’s Metromile, which launched its personalized pay-per-mile auto insurance in 2012.

Startup 203

Startup Customer Custom Los Angeles 203

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

01% conversion rate again to the people who clicked over to the website from the YouTube video, that’s 185 new customers, 185 people who would have never thought to google search for a tampon service, who will now be signing up to spend the 15 bucks a month to get tampons delivered to their door. If we apply that.01%

Dollar Shave Club 101

Dollar Shave Club Custom Customer Marketing 101

L.A. Business Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Honey Science, which was founded in 2012 to help customers find online shopping deals, made a huge leap from startup to established player in November 2019 when it was acquired for $4 billion in cash from PayPal.

Company 130

Company Companies Customer Custom 130

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

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The Most Important Panel You’ll Ever Attend event will be starring an all-star panel of top entrepreneurs from all sorts of industry offering their success to bring on their first 100 paying customers and 1,000 core fans. The hardest part about being a business owner is how to attract those initial paying customers.

Mixergy 70

Mixergy Outsource Development Outsource Conference 70

socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online content publishing firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, reported its second quarter 2012 financial results on Tuesday afternoon, saying that both its revenues and pageviews grew from year to year. for the three months ended June 30, 2012, up 17 percent from the same quarter last year.

Demand 133

Demand Media Santa Monica Report 133

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

Friday, September 21, 2012 -- Lean Startup Machine. Lean Startup Machine is a three-day workshop where attendees use Customer Development and Lean Startup principles to validate an idea for a new product or service. See [link] (more)

Startup 124

Startup Custom Development Ideas Customer 124

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

We spent a year (2012-2013) building a merchant acquisition machine and all of the systems to support bookings, calendar integrations, location services, etc. I am stunned at the speed at which the team cranked out this application while at the same time building out an entire suite of merchant solutions to help them better manage customers.

Development Team Review 324

Development Team Review Course Mobile Writing 324

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 10, 2012

This year’s 2012 International CES is my very first, and will not be my last. With applications being built to help golf pro’s perfect a customers swing to teach driving skills to new drivers. Kyle here LIVE from the Consumer Electronic Show (#CES) in Las Vegas ladies and gentleman. What an amazing show.

Press 72

Press Technology Product Design 72

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 -- Startup Venture Summit. Network with prospective corporate customers and clients in your market niche. For High Growth Startups Seeking Funding or Partners. All Stages Welcome: PreLaunch, Early and Mid Stage. Pitch to serious multi million dollar investors and angels.

Startup 124

Startup Networking Entrepreneur Customer 124

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2014

PCM said the new data center will provide Tier II space for managed hosting and cloud IT services, which it provides to its customers. acres of land it purchase back in December of 2012. El Segundo-based PCM , formerly known as PC Mall, said Thursday that it has opened up a new data center in New Albany, Ohio.

El Segundo 138

El Segundo Product Customer Custom 138

socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

The company says it saw 120 percent revenue growth in Q1, and has signed up such customers as Kimberly-Clark, Carhartt, Wet Seal, and many others. The company said the new funding brings its total raised since January of 2012 to $47.5M. Tealium''s software is used to manage "tags" on a company''s e-commerce websites. READ MORE>>.

Silver Lake 138

Silver Lake San Diego Commerce Equity 138

socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2011

According to the firm, its technology will be integrated into IBM's Netezza analytics appliances in a release scheduled for early 2012. Esri said that the integration will give its federal agencies and customers in the energy, retail, telecommunications, and health care industries ability to query and analyze massive datasets.

IBM 133

IBM IBM Software Customer 133