Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

While the market isn't short of spritely, innovative entrepreneurs, harsh economic headwinds combined with a pullback in investor spending have made it harder than ever for budding businesses to break through. Source: runwayml.com In June, Runway raised $141 million in funding, nudging its market valuation to an envy-inducing $1.5

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Tool Users - Startups often have a long gestation period in which the team is in discovery mode, defining the company's value proposition, target market, pricing, business model, etc. Unfortunately, the 2012 QS TopMBA.com Applicant Survey notes that, on average, MBAs expect to earn $153,000 upon graduation.

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socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2011

The service--which just launched the daily deals effort in February--said it will now offer deals in new York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, with a plan to roll out to 25 major markets by the end of the year, and internationally in 2012. Active offers its Schwaggle deals via email, Facebook, and through the site.

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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.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

The company is ServiceTitan, and its market… is air conditioners. 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. Indeed, more than 60% of U.S. workers and even more globally fall into these “blue collar” industries.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

However, around December of 2010 the firm began a series of acquisitions -- of a number of data backup provider, other EFAX providers, email marketing firms, unified communications, and more, culminating with the buy of Ziff Davis in November of 2012. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing. My cofounder and I came up with this concept, and had been talking for awhole about how fragmented the overall market is for online ordering. We started our services in August of 2012. How do restaurants pay for this?

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Cornerstone OnDemand Startup Social Media Outsource Development 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 15, 2012

The firm this week launched a new feature for the 2012 BMW 7 Series, dubbed the Dragon Drive! Driver’s speech into email or SMS. The voice technology enables a driver to dictate a phone call, an email or SMS, edit it or read (listen) and respond to emails and SMS texts received without the touch of a button or touch screen.

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Email Technical Review Software Review Mobile 61

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

Andrwe Bermudez: We were able to get a lot of data using those tools, and then latched onto their email communications. When they saw an email, they could just click here and be done, rather than having to go through the effort of logging into the system. I left in 2012, and I was one of the top 5 of the top 10. It worked well.

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Sales Startup Email Tool 145

InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2013

By 2012, total sales exceeded 50 million copies and founding band member Roger Waters was cited by Forbes as the second highest paid musician of the year, pulling in $88 million. Unfortunately, successful musicians seldom have the luxury of market testing their subsequent albums. Pay To Play. Share and Enjoy.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Pablo joins TechZulu and talks about Proven, job markets, and the future of mobile. The current iteration of what we are doing now has been around since 2012. Let me share an email I got today. The email says, “Your app helped me find a job that was better than my current one and allowed me to have a better life at the moment.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

But his challenges only make us a better place, he’s pushed us to make sure we’re building systems to better track our markets and measure performance. From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. I also noticed that inbound emails were no longer directed at just me. He’s pushed us to be out in the community more.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. When should you start a company?

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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. We bring value to those small guys who can't compete against a $60 million marketing budget. Really, we're the sales and marketing arm of those companies. So where are you now?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

The startup, which originally launched at TechCrunch Disrupt last fall, is giving away premium one year licenses worth $1,188 to 200 bloggers and website owners who act at their virtual marketing army. To claim your premium account, send an email with your post to bloggers@fanzila.com. Fanzila-powered blogs are not eligible.

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Eric Greenspan

JULY 3, 2012

From a marketing partnership with Verizon, to producing our own radio shows on CBS and ABC and finally, a Costco rollout; the company’s management worked tirelessly to find solutions to maintaining growth and profitability, critical components of any business. In May of 2012, sales dropped drastically. It was over. Of course).

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

From a marketing partnership with Verizon, to producing our own radio shows on CBS and ABC and finally, a Costco rollout; the company’s management worked tirelessly to find solutions to maintaining growth and profitability, critical components of any business. In May of 2012, sales dropped drastically. We sought capital just in case.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2015

Back in 2012 when the Flame virus was wreaking havoc across the world, the need for army-trained hackers became a whole new frontier for IT software companies. The threat of hacking and loss of data has never been real than now. There are over a billion passwords stolen and stored in a single Russian databases.

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Training Software Company Companies 40

Eric Greenspan

MARCH 25, 2013

I had suppressed much of what happened prior to and after that day, June 25, 2012. When I woke up that Sunday morning and received an email that our investor had pulled out, I knew it was over. But the fleet of Geek Squad VWs is great brand awareness so that part of the business must survive and there remains a market for it.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

HIGHEST DEGREE OBTAINED BY AMERICA'S 400 RICHEST PEOPLE Source: Forbes Magazine, Jan 2012. According to a January 2012 Forbes article, nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. When one considers the 400 richest people on the entire planet, the percentage of non-college graduates doubles.

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Tips Startup Education Entrepreneur 279

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

In order to prepare for TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 I reviewed company bios via the official site and read taglines that said “cool” rather than what the company does. To start, let’s take a peek inside my train of thinking while I was preparing what I would report on for Tech Crunch Disrupt 2012. 1 Pre Planning. 3 Be on time.

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Press Startup Technical Review Email 97

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 11, 2013

After a summer that saw the 2012 Mucker Lab graduate and 2013 TechZulu Tech Crawl participant secure $7 million in Series B funding and a National Aviation Administration permit to fly, it appears that Surf Air is continuing to raise the bar. Surf Air’s Facebook page is currently managed by Surf Air Marketing Coordinator Mark Noble.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2013

Yet I am amazed to see US Census Bureau data from 2012 that at least 50%, maybe up to 75%, of small businesses still have no presence at all. Viral marketing needs a website. But word-of-mouth and viral marketing doesn’t work without a web site. These are soon to be the walking dead, and the competitors you can beat today.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I often tell people that in some ways it’s easier to build great companies in down markets. ” But as entrepreneurs you don’t get to sit these years out and as investors we don’t get just let a few years pass and return back to the market. .” One needs to be in during bull markets and bear markets.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 9, 2013

My 16 year old was living with his mom this past year as my business of 12 years went under in June of 2012. I emailed each of his teachers for confirmation. About me: I’m a dad, a social research marketer, customer service champion, closet chef, TEDster. I’m a good father and I love them more than my own life.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

We’ll be covering everything from the promising new startups presented at the SXSW Accelerator to apps in private beta, creative marketing tactics and more. To schedule an interview or discuss your SXSW plans, email amanda@techzulu.com. Want to Sponsor?

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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. According to the SEC we’re not allowed to market the fact that we’re fund raising, so I won’t. Investor emails. I promise you that won’t be a bit market for us. Hell, I send those emails. And so it goes again. Enough already!?!

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2013

Selling the future can be effective, as long as it does not result in a prospect postponing their purchase, waiting for the promised features to be created and vetted by the market. Image Sources: Randy - Copyright © 2012 Discovery Communications, LLC, Monte - ©2012Tribune Media Services, Inc. Sales Training With Benefits.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I’ve been an avid user of Plug.DJ’s music discovery site since early 2012, have discovered a ton of music there (which, by the way, I’m still listening to today) and originally covered their $1.25M in seed-round funding from Javelin Venture Partners. was founded in February 2012 by a team of passionate music fans.

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Startup Product Sites Tool 107

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 24, 2016

In 2012, my company plundered and it was horrific…bygones. I had no issue with this and actually helped him by marketing his offerings. Shortly thereafter, he sent me an email stating he wanted to leave the business and hand it all over to me. In the years to follow, Seth would reach out looking for ways to work together.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

As President of Game Development and Operations at SGN, a leading cross platform game developer and distributor, Josh Yguado is responsible for development, marketing, and operations for all games. Robin is a former advisor to Gai Kai (acquired by Sony in 2012), an on-line technology company. Please email us reach@techzulu.com.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

OP: It was 2012 when my brother and I took our cousin who was visiting from Poland to go see the movie Hugo. All these efforts were to figure out what it would take to put something like this in the market. OP: Well, right now there is a totally underserved market of language displaced individuals, as I mentioned earlier.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. October 5, 2012. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 Another client of Mr. Rappaports, Mich Mathews, formerly the head of marketing for Microsoft. 2012, compared with the same period in 2011.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Writers can log into our site, upload their project, and select from over 4,000 markets, and send their work out to the world physically with a single click. In terms of the market, we cover everything, but the big areas are contests and publications of every kind, literary agents, and also some Hollywood agents.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Additionally, the database includes on-street meter and sign restrictions in the top 26 US markets. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program. Diamond Sponsor. Check out Treatsa and send a.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Additionally, the database includes on-street meter and sign restrictions in the top 26 US markets. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program. Leveraging mobile application and online platform.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

That''s why people tend to gravitate towards SMS messages, rather than something like email. We''ll probably finish this year with a subscriber base which has increased about 7x to 8x from the end of 2012. That''s important in how we market. By giving them your mobile number, you''ve created a priority channel.

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