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.

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socalTECH

MAY 3, 2012

San Diego-based cloud storage provider Nirvanix announced this morning that it has raised over $25M in a Series C funding round, which it says will go to "significantly expand" its engineering organization. In a statement, Nirvanix CEO Scott Genereux said that the company booked more revenue in Q1 of 2012 than nearly all of 2011.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

LoveIt is a site for individuals and groups to discover, collect, organize and share images they love in public or private collections. We started building LoveIt at the beginning of 2012. .” No fuss, TechZulu caught up with Ron LaPierre , Co founder and CEO LoveIt and we bet you will love it. What is LoveIt and why the name?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

As Avesta Rasouli, SWLA Co-organizer and Founder of Coloft says, “Go sell something! 2nd place went to MarkedUp that helps mobile developers collect and organize visual feedback from their beta testers and users ( markedup.mobi ). Coffee is for closers!” What a SWLA. making this their first SWLA.

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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?

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 1, 2019

Research shows that homelessness in LA has risen by a staggering 75% since 2012, with elderly people and single-parent households most affected. In the words of Gina Belafonte, co-director of Sankofa , the social justice organization based in New York and LA, “The process in which it’s executed is the problem.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Founded by Ara Mahdessian and Vahe Kuzoyan in 2012, ServiceTitan is very much an up-and-coming billion-dollar business that’s a family (minded) affair. Mahdessian and Kuzoyan met on a ski trip organized by the Armenian student associations at Stanford and the University of Southern California back when both men were in college.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2014

Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. Ask the right questions to identify the innate personality traits in potential new hires, regardless of level and function, to bring on board those most likely to succeed in and shape your organization.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Organic Academia. Unlike most university programs that are over architected and underfunded, the TMP evolved organically, based on the demands of its students and input from the local community. The company was acquired by Becton, Dickinson and Company during August of 2012, for approximately $65 million.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 14, 2014

Even the organization''s lexicon reinforces its startup mindset. Rather, the organization provides ongoing support of its "portfolio," including strategic planning, recruitment of Board members and public relations expertise. I am curious as to A Better Chicago''s origin and how the organization differs from traditional non-profits.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 4, 2012

But if you’re a company looking to motivate your employees or engage with customers where do you start? An advanced module that provides gamification solutions for organizations using Jive’s social business platform. Gamification fuels that drive and brings the competition to technology.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

How difficult has it been to get your customers to understand the exposure with SMS? Some of the first customers we had were in obstetrics. We''ll probably finish this year with a subscriber base which has increased about 7x to 8x from the end of 2012. We had originally conceived of this as one app for one organization.

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Yammer Startup Mobile Organization 229

socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

We thought we found a gap in the market where we could fit in, so we looked at a bunch of the services which were existing in the market, and we designed our own product offering, back in 2012. We started our services in August of 2012. They own the customer, and if they want, can send that customer to any other restaurant.

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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>

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 20, 2012

The loss in productivity involved in transitioning a struggling employee out an organization, coupled with the time required to conduct a subsequent job search, can cripple a small company’s ability to achieve its strategic objectives. Job Syndication And Customized Job Boards. Social Job Sharing And Referral Begging.

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Tech.Co

JULY 27, 2015

At their graduation on Tuesday, they will present their final projects to the audience which will include Mayor Eric Garcetti, Girls Who Code CEO Reshma Saujani , and AT&T Senior Vice President of Customer Experience & Business Planning Carmen Nava. She was inspired to start the organization when she learned that only 0.4%

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2014

to hear about how the program is both helping the studio tap into the energy and ideas of the startup community, as well as helping those startups find new customers in the media and entertainment business. Our sister company, Turner, began Media Camp San Francisco in 2012. How long have you been doing this?

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

It's software-as-a-service based, and we have organizations worldwide, from very small companies, to 100 employees and up, to Fortune 500 companies, across a wide variety of industries. However, our customers, even with Concur, find those solutions didn't meet all of their needs. Chrome River is picking up a number of those customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

According to the most recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were approximately 514,000 new businesses created per month in the US in 2012. Today’s platform is built of people, including yourself, followers, and contacts, who can amplify your message through social media and spread it to your target customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. This means selling at least 5-10 customers in advance, before it is even built. Offer the customers a discount for buying in advance. Below are some take away tips… and the video of the of the panel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5 Don’t try to talk your way to a deal before you have the documentation.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

In a collaborative effort, Ria Consulting, LLC and Los Angeles Net Developers Group are hosting this event on November 10th, 2012 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. Jason also spearheads customer-driven, innovative features and functionality throughout all of infragistics’ products.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

According to a January 2012 article in Forbes Magazine , nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. But it's also about operations and customer relationships." Along with Amazon, Dell was also an early pioneer of web-based customer service. We Don't Need No Stinkin' Degrees. "As

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

The emerging “cloud focused” IT organizations, and the benefits they are able to obtain. Prior to co-founding EdgeCast, he was a co-founder, chairman and CEO of KnowledgeBase, a hosted enterprise knowledge management company with many Fortune 1000 customers. The opportunities cloud computing and SaaS afford management.

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SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92

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. It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. Approachable.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. Sign up customers who are paying you money for a service you can’t 100% guarantee is going to be operational for the full period that they’re expecting. I didn’t want to disappoint my customers. I didn’t sleep much back then. And yet you have to.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2014

That was 2012. Today, Grokker.com, the community driven content network offering has 3500 plus high quality, expert-led videos for yoga, fitness and cooking too make it easy and enjoyable for enthusiasts to discover valuable content and seamlessly organize and share choice topics, experts and opinions with a larger like-minded community.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 14, 2015

There’s a lot of concern about whether or not organizations will feel the effects of an IT talent shortage over the coming years. Even back in 2012, Ben Rooney of the Wall Street Journal wrote on the small number of workers within the field of big data. In fact, there’s been a talent shortage in the IT field for quite some time.

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Cloud Computing Artificial Inteligence Organization Training 40

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2017

We were eventually acquired by a large competitorin 2012. I got experience with product development, lots of customer facing experience, and real time analytics. You need to be a good partner across that organization. There was no crazy, crazy growth, and it was much more linear. Change in the industry is heating up.

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Southern California Technical Review Startup Commerce 244

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

billion for 35 funds during the first quarter of 2013, an increase of 22 percent compared to the level of dollar commitments during the fourth quarter of 2012, according to a report from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). That should be true even if your customer is really a distributor.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of January 22, 2012. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Directions to the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter 2012. Thousands of organizations have turned to TriNet for human resources, benefits, payroll, workers’ compensation, and strategic human capital services.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2015

The growing threat of cyber terrorism and cyber warfare is likely going to continue, as organizations with limited military means may resort to attempting to infiltrate and destroy military defense networks. The result was significant damage to five Iranian organizations, and caused significant physical damage to Iran’s nuclear program.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

The Black Tux online tuxedo rental, which is reinventing the customer experience in the antiquated $10B+ tuxedo rental and sales industry. s first YouTube employee Blayze is trusted by many of the top media companies in the world to activate, manage, and monetize their audience and data by developing organic, sustainable viewership.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

But subsequent statistics have also shown that “online coupon access [has] increased 92 percent and redemption of Internet deals [has] leapt up 360 percent;” with more growth predicted in 2012. However, more than 40 percent of the organizations said that they wouldn’t run a Groupon offer again.”. Getting Mobile-Ready.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 8, 2014

No personal information is needed to activate, therefore, calls cannot be traced to a specific name or organization in any way. ” It’s a compelling thought – especially when you consider the alternative: 2 year contracts, overage charges, hours of dealing with customer service reps. Introductions and Inspiration.

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Mobile Startup Customer Custom 86

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

We''ve got a grid of 500 nodes, handling a billion and a half clicks and call impressions, which we drive for our customers. Much of it is the relationship effect, and because of a lot of people deep in the organization. The last group, on the technical side, is platform data services. When did the split with AT&T happen?

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 24, 2016

In 2012, my company plundered and it was horrific…bygones. Over the next couple of years the then tiny ABBO would grow to the 6,200+ member organization it is today and Seth David’s brand would grow demonstrably as well. In the years to follow, Seth would reach out looking for ways to work together. Mission accomplished.

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