TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. in Los Angeles. in Los Angeles.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Pitching app developers with a new way to convert app browsers into actual customers, AppOnboard has raised $15 million in a new round of funding, the company said. Zweig was one of the architects behind the success of AdColony, a startup which sold to Opera Software in 2014 for $350 million.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Marlin Equity has acquired LiveOps Cloud Platform , the companies said today, in a deal which will split LiveOps into two different companies. The two parts of LiveOps have been run separately since 2014. LiveOps Cloud develops cloud contact center and customer service software.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

As we know, long gone are the days of experiencing SXSW Interactive with just 9,000 other tech entrepreneurs and business brights – with 30,000 registrants in 2013 and the final numbers for 2014 still in the works. Savannah Peterson – Shapeaways , the social platform for 3D printing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2022

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side. In the U.S.,

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms. Maybe they might be using a platform like Shopify to sell their products and power their website, and they might use Facebook for advertising, and maybe they're using paid search with Google.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side. In the U.S.,

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2019

Pledgeling has built a technology platform that makes it super easy to integrate charity into their customer experience, and, as we say, grow through giving. In October of 2014, my wife and I were about to have our first child, and I am thinking to myself, I am going to take a month off and be a great dad.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor. “They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. It only happens when the margins get tight.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

If you choose your name well and it represents what your customers value in you then it will be memorable, differentiated and meaningful. Build platform services that provide more value to our startups than just money (putting our fees into our ecosystem and not just our pockets). A brand is a marathon, not a sprint.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The company, which started in 2014, now has over 40 employees. Mike Whitmire: We put the first version of our software out in 2014, and got a couple of beta clients. In our first year of selling, we brought on over 50 clients, and last year we had 170 customers, and we now have about 40 employees. What are you working on?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2016

SaaS – or Software as a Service – platforms are all the rage. Quintype thinks that digital publishing – which relies on platforms such as wordpress, drupal and other CMS platforms – has been stuck in the dark ages. Here are four that are blazing trails right now: Quintype.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014. The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2014

How much will social media fame cost you in 2014? Each social media platform enforces rules which punish fakers. For instance, the lack of customization of a user''s account profile is an obvious sign of a bot. Thus, in 2014, accrue your social media status the old-fashioned way - earn it. The Downside.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

We morphed from a kiosk company, to a provider of a fully digital store platform for the restaurant industry, and in particular, multi-unit restaurants. Our platform encompasses several things. We believe tha restaurant customers are multi-channel nowadays. They might call your call center and talk to an agent.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2014

Unfortunately, many of these professionals are doing so with a desktop mindset more akin to 2004 than 2014. In addition, marketers have traditionally lacked adequate visibility into the customer''s experience, making it impossible to associate a user''s online experience with their offline call.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2015

In 2014 Tumblr overtook Instagram as fastest-growing social platform, and Snapchat is the fastest-growing mobile app, driven largely by Millennials and teens. Don’t connect the latest platform, which may be transient, with the larger phenomenon of digitally enabled social conversations. When the glass is only.04%

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

Instead, they need to validate a customer problem and real market need first. Don’t create solutions looking for a problem , since investors ignore these, and customers other than early adopters are hard to find. Customers buy solutions, not technology. Look for customer willingness and ability to pay.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5 This gives rise to the personalization and customization that we all want. Analytics will soon drive nearly all business decisions for any company that wants to remain relevant to its customers.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

That was in 2014, and that was our pivot moment. We got really serious after the success of that customer, who wanted to make this technology available for all of its employees across the globe. How is it your first customer was in Australia? It all happened in 2014, really fast. So how did you end up here in California?

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OCTOBER 21, 2014

Nanxi Liu: In 2010, an industry report came out that predicted that digital signage was going to be a $4 billion market in 2014. We put our software onto computer chips, which are the size of your credit card, and we give it to customers without charge. That means third party developers can create apps on top of our platform.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 9, 2014

Last Monday, Jan 6th, marked the culmination of AT&T’s Developer Summit at CES 2014 along with the release of open APIs for its U-Verse platform on Android. ” Developed by Splitmo , this game can accommodate up to eight players and is free for all AT&T U-Verse TV & Internet customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

We've done that, by bringing some really, cool, awesome curated gifts to our platform, and made it really easy to send those to people in essentially two clicks. The other, interesting part of our platform, is it integrates with all of your contacts. Who are your typical customers? How does Giftagram work?

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DECEMBER 2, 2013

Nelson Paez : Our strategy was, before releasing our product to the general public, to release it to our military and intelligence customers. On top of that, we are making our platform available for third party application developers, similar to the way developers can create software for the iPhone or Google Android.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2015

Incentive , the Venice-based socially powered mid-market and enterprise collaboration platform has created a secure solution that takes the pain out of collaboration by centralizing all content into one place. The platform empowers companies and their employees to work, share, communicate and collaborate more effectively and efficiently.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amoruso is credited with coining the term in the title of her 2014 memoir, “#Girlboss,” which chronicled her rags-to-riches success and was adapted into a Netflix show. Nguyen is founder and CMO of Fanhouse , a creator platform that just raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz. . What does that even mean?”

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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. Introducing SeedInvest.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 5, 2014

Having gone through rigors of startup gauntlet, ABC’s Shark Tank , Breathometer is a product that’s been developed, tested, and improved over time through the tempered environment of customer and investor feedback. He soon realized that the Breathometer would be much more than just a blood alcohol content measurement device.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 14, 2014

They have created a handful of successful games on iOS, Android and Facebook platforms with hits such as Cookie Jam and Paint Monsters. We founded the company on the premise that we should build a game once and distribute it across all platforms: mobile, social, web. The Book of Life premiers on October 17, 2014.

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JUNE 13, 2019

I saw that, if you build a good product that customers love, that people love to use, how you need to market it, how you need to run that project, and so forth. That was the first time I raised any kind of capital, $600,000 in capital, for a social gifting platformback when Facebook was very generous with data.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. They hit the coveted one million user milestone and within two years a billion tweets had been sent on the platform. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. It had strong platform usage.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2014 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We will have a line up of amazing panelist who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2014. Custom ad deals and partnerships. 28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. Contact us at sponsor@techzulu.com.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Eli Aizenstat: Beatshare is a multimedia messaging platform, where we are bringing music into the heart of the communication space. I built my own company around marketing services, and have been around business development, marketing, custom service, and sales, and also on the consumer side of technology, a little bit a mix of the two.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/03/2014.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

We''ve made it so people can customize us to only turn on movies and TV, and don''t have to see anything with music and books, for example. The rest of the model will include things like customized marketing and advertising in a more focused way, all about entertainment. You can make the experience smaller if you want.

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