Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Even though Lyft nor Sidecar presented at TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 they need to be mentioned as they were a huge time saver both getting from after party to after party and also to get to the airport. One way to use videos to increase sales is uploading them to YouTube. Lyft / Sidecar – The Airbnb of commuter transportation.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

A Google survey from July 2012 calculated that more than half the small businesses in the US are still without a basic website. The pride and effort they have placed in building up their business should be reflected through their web presence. Asmita’s are challenging for a web designer; anyway you move you will be damned.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

A Google survey from July 2012 calculated that more than half the small businesses in the US are still without a basic website. The pride and effort they have placed in building up their business should be reflected through their web presence. Asmita’s are challenging for a web designer; anyway you move you will be damned.

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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. There are many practical reasons for going to work early on your web site. Viral marketing needs a website.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Saturday evening came to a “closing” with the Coloft tradition of the famous scene from Glengarry Glen Ross where Alec Baldwin defines the meaning of “closing” while he gives a nearly Oscar winning sales talk to motivate his staff. As Avesta Rasouli, SWLA Co-organizer and Founder of Coloft says, “Go sell something! Coffee is for closers!”

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Healthtech entrepreneur Parker Hinshaw and his wife Jean Balgrosky said they intended to take a step back when they founded Bootstrap Incubation near San Diego in the fall of 2012.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Alex is a proven web entrepreneur, having led and sold multiple successful startups. Prior to starting KnowledgeBase, Alex founded HostPro, an industry-leading web hosting and application services provider. Additionally, he has extensive application development, web hosting, and data center build-out and management experience.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way. Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world. If you think of literally any large consumer web company, they are either a client today, or in a pilot process with us. That ended up as a $200 million sale to Microsoft.

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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”. Then when hiring a developer to build the project, show the developer you already have sales and offer them a percentage of passive income if they work at a lower or no charge rate.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2017

We're partnering with the biggest insurance brands, including Nationwide, and many, many others�25 different insurance companies�and taking their insurance policies and selling them in a unified way, making it available to consumers via iOS and Android apps and the web. We were eventually acquired by a large competitorin 2012.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. When you get all that data and analyze it, you get interesting insights,” Sheik said.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

My point was that Amazon continues to dominate the web services business because AWS continues to cut prices & margin in the same way a hypermarket does to control market share. And we’re growing our sales organization. Many people (including inside of YouTube) mistook this to mean that I was negative on YouTube itself.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. 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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2013

Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. By transforming a single shopper''s path into data points, companies can see how you move through a store, and how that tracks with sales. Social media and web data.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

LendingClub helped to pioneer the model, saying in November 2012 that it had surpassed $1 billion in loans issued since 2006, when it was founded. LendingClub stumbled earlier this year, however, when an internal investigation found improprieties in the sale of $22 million in loans. million in 2012 to more than $59 million in 2015.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

LendingClub helped to pioneer the model, saying in November 2012 that it had surpassed $1 billion in loans issued since 2006, when it was founded. LendingClub stumbled earlier this year, however, when an internal investigation found improprieties in the sale of $22 million in loans. million in 2012 to more than $59 million in 2015.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 15, 2012

The firm this week launched a new feature for the 2012 BMW 7 Series, dubbed the Dragon Drive! Users can also get directions for local businesses, search the web or ‘play’ a song from a particular artist. Calling or texting while driving is a traffic offence punishable under the US federal law. Driver’s speech into email or SMS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2013

The simple answer is that if you want to be found on the Web, the perfect domain name can be well worth a few thousand dollars, but don’t pay a fortune for one. Only one sold for 7 figures in 2012 (investing.com sold for $2.5 Ask if the domain name is for sale, but don’t tip your hand by making a specific offer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What if you could go to a web site and find all the recipes you could make today, with just the ingredients you already have in your kitchen? Hopefully, you will find, with your favorite search engine, something like the “ Cooking Sauces & Food Seasonings Market Report 2012.” I’m going to start a website to offer this service!”

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2015

Our unique entrepreneurial spirit lends itself perfectly to launching the next great web startup or is generating that fresh spark to create a competitive advantage for a large corporation. Praedicat is an independent corporation launched in March 2012. All ticket sales are final. Praedicat, Inc. No refunds.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

Years before Hello Flo’s “The Camp Gyno” video existed, in 2009, Orabrush, a tongue cleaner company, was setting the precedent for what would be how to make a million dollars in ecommerce sales utilizing YouTube marketing. 12,000 people signed up in the first 48 hours after the Dollar Shave Club video went live in 2012.

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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. In Michael's case, he promised his parents that he would return to school if the sales at his startup did not meet his expectations. "I We Don't Need No Stinkin' Degrees. "As

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

.” Founded in 2007 by Ravishanker and a small group of computer science graduates from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Southern California and Harvard University, CallFire has achieved just under $10 million in sales, is profitable and has built that substantial user base–all without venture funding.

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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. The Blayze network already reaches or 200 million viewers and has generated thousands in sales. Within three months, Panjo has achieved hundreds of thousands in monthly gross merchandise sales.

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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.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

Precise analytics allow companies to “ measure online distribution of coupons by tracking the printing of web pages and page views;” a significant advantage with digital. It has been predicted that this method will continue to increase in popularity in 2012. Getting Mobile-Ready.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. Dinesh is a highly entrepreneurial executive with a track record of driving sales through innovative biz-dev and online marketing techniques. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Event Details.

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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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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. Up 33% this year, according to the Washington Post, online commerce is trending upwards from $175 billion in 2007 to a projection of $335 billion in 2012 (Forrester Research).

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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. Up 33% this year, according to the Washington Post, online commerce is trending upwards from $175 billion in 2007 to a projection of $335 billion in 2012 (Forrester Research).

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

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

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

October 5, 2012. In Santa Monica, the median price of homes jumped 16% in the first eight months of 2012 compared with 2011, after a 9% decline over the same period the year before, according to Multiple Listing Service data compiled by Paul Habibi, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. VENICE RISING. County: 0.9%.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Matt McKinney is the Founder of TiesForCharity.com, a trendy tie company that donates a percentage of each tie sale to unique charities. Clark Benson is the founder of Ranker , a consumer web startup that is a platform for ranking.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I show charts on housing, structural unemployment, home equity re-financings that we spent meaning less spending power post crash, new housing sales, debt-to-income ratios, public-sector job problems that will cause crises in cities and states across the US. Right now people seem to be angling more around November 2012. My prognosis?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Who are you on the web? It’s almost like the web equivalent of Facebook Connect. On the web each website wants you to log in to their website using a proprietary user name and password. New tickets about to go on sale for your favorite band – Tweet. Historically you are your email address.

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