Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

Early in a services business there is usually no profits as the company reinvests in hiring people to grow, but by $20 million in sales the company should at least be pulling in 10% profits (if not more) depending on how much is reinvested. Who are your competitors – how much do they charge?&#. It’s pure irony. interest?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Advertise.com said it recently move dinto new office space, as part of that plan for growth, across technology, sales, and marketing departments. with similar double digital growth through 2014. The company cited eMarketer forecasts of 20.2 percent growth on online ad spend this year in the U.S., READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2014

The company said the expansion comes as it saw double digit, profitable growth in the first half of 2014, when it said it doubled its revenues in the enterprise Big Data market. The company said that, due to the sales growth, it has expanded its overall headcount by 20 percent since Q1. DDN is led by Alex Bouzari.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Saucey launched in 2014 and now operates across 22 markets including LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, New York City, Chicago, Washington, Dallas, Orlando, Tampa and Miami. Its sales growth has expanded 200% year-over-year even as the company maintains its profitability, according to a statement.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

The company built its own point-of-sale system and commerce APIs in-house, allowing them to deliver a “seamless” customer experience, former Glossier CTO Bryan Mahoney said in 2018. Founded in 2014, Glossier is widely touted as one of the earliest breakout successes of the DTC model, and raised its Series E last July at a $1.8

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Financial details of the sale were not announced. L Squared said the sale is the fourth exit from its 2014 vintage year fund, and its third exit from the education market. L Squared said the sale is the fourth exit from its 2014 vintage year fund, and its third exit from the education market.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

The company is ServiceTitan, and its market… is air conditioners. That’s likely due to a continually expanding toolkit that now boasts a customer relationship management system, efficient dispatching and routing, invoice management, mobile applications for field professionals and marketing analytics and reporting tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2014

Many entrepreneurs are so enamored with their product vision that they believe their own hype, and are convinced that the market for their solution is so huge that no one will ask them for independent market-research data. Conduct your own customized market research. Modern libraries are still worth a visit.

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socalTECH

JULY 2, 2018

AdColony develops mobile video advertising technology, and was acquired in 2014 for $350M by Operat Software. Yang also has served at Toyota Motor Sales, Del Monte Foods and the Walt Disney Company. The company is led by CEO Sam Kim.

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

Los Angeles-based private equity investor The Gores Group announced very late Thursday evening that it has reached a definitive agreement to sell Fotona Holdings , a manufacturer of high performance lasers for the medical, dental, and aesthetic market, to AGIC Capital. Financial details of the sale were not announced.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

We know to do this we need to fund projects that are more difficult in scope, more ambitious in industry transformation, less obvious in market adoption and a higher probability of not working. It’s still in pre-sale, but reception from beta testers, previews and the industry ( tech and consumer ) has been enthusiastic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

For example, mobile now has become the formidable new communication channel, posting a year-over-year growth rate of 47 percent in 2014, according to WBR Digital Research. That means your marketing must now include shopping apps, location-based services and mobile wallets. Assume that customers are all like you.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2018

Financial details of the sale were not announced. Diversis has been the owner of BLUE since December of 2014 when it acquired BLUE from publicly held Matthews International. Diversis has been the owner of BLUE since December of 2014 when it acquired BLUE from publicly held Matthews International. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2016

San Diego-based residential solar power installer OneRoof Energy said late Friday that it has "significantlyr educed" its work force, and has begun winding down its operations, after it said it was unable to secure financing necessary to continue sales, marketing, and development. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Oculus has pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into funding VR content, and while the headset market is still small, developers have built plenty of games and experiences. If anything, the OculusVR acquisition in 2014 signaled that Facebook saw VR as a social final frontier. Early Bird tickets are still on sale for one more week.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2019

Most recently, Turchin worked at ServiceNow, which he left in 2014 to launch Astound. Astound said it would use the financing to increase its product development and sales and marketing efforts, according to a statement.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

In 2014, we raised quite a bit of money from St. The company has grown about 200 percent since 2014, in terms of revenue. 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. Cloud, and really went full force.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

It’s why in this article I advise that people “market today not futures” because you don’t want your playbook in the hands of the competition. The other thing that tech execs often want to do is to delegate the PR to their marketing person. I wrote about how to build relationships with journalists in this post.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

The IPO is being underwritten by BofA Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank Securities, Citigroup, BMO Capital Markets, Piper Jaffray, Wells Fargo Securities, and Roth Capital Partners. billion in net sales for 2014. Vizio's major owners are founder William Wang (54.7 Vizio reported net income of $44.9M

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Can you imagine investing in the stock market where your price was determined at a future date and the better that company performed the HIGHER the price you paid for that investment. This has worked very well in the 2009-2012 time frame because the tech market has boomed in this period. What happens in a sale or acqui-hire?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

But why did Ring succeed when the entire market kept saying that Nest was going to be the winner? Why did Ring become an enormous success when it produced a hardware product and the market keeps saying, “hardware is too difficult to scale?” Here are my views … 1. we were sold on the concept immediately. We weren’t sure.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The company, which started in 2014, now has over 40 employees. They've solved it at the enterprise paint point, where we are at the mid-market. Mike Whitmire: We put the first version of our software out in 2014, and got a couple of beta clients. We took it to the market in January of 2015. What are you working on?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2014

Some provide subscription based services offering designer shoes or low-cost razors, but is there a market for closeout or clearance products? These companies focus on bringing the best selection and new experiences to customers. Clearance.co and team are providing that there is. In Less Than A Year.

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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. Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

There is no black magic involved in predicting the future, if you use these four simple steps, with my basic rules of thumb to keep you on the right track: Determine your margin on sales. Forecast sales-volume expectations. Forecast sales-volume expectations. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 12/26/2014.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2015

Dreamforce is the conference for sales and marketing professionals. The 2014 show hosted 135,000 attendees and boasted A-list guest speakers and performers like Hillary Rodham Clinton, Neil Young, Anthony Robbins, and Bruno Mars. Hosted by SAAS giant Salesforce, it is more akin to a circus than a professional event.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. It freed up Ophir to grow out our sales organization, to work more closely with agencies, to innovate on product and to raise capital. It literally can put you out of business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2014

A November 2014 report by Kiplinger asserts that economic momentum is back on track. Many cited a greater focus on cost cutting and efficiency as the number two step to achieving growth, with increasing sales still number one. Many are planning to be more aggressive in grabbing market share from competitors, and you should, too.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

Robert Blatt: The first stage, in 2013, was really nailing product-market-fit. What we did in 2014-2015 and most of 2016, was to really, really refine the business model, so that we could be a successful company, and not just have a successful product. What's the biggest thing that the company has done since you came on?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. Gallup says the Boomer demographic is the largest and still growing mainstream pool of experienced talent in the market today (76 million people strong).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

Instead, they need to validate a customer problem and real market need first. Smart entrepreneurs build market-driven solutions, per the following principles: Size the opportunity and customer interest first. Your passion isn’t enough to create a market. Disruptive technologies require customer education to create a new market.

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socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2014

Matt Brinker, our VP of products, comes from the construction industry, as does Rich Haus, our VP of Sales and Service. Todd Davis: The reason this is news in 2014, is exactly as you state. What''s the range of markets your software can be used? What''s the biggest challenge you have had in getting this to market?

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Initially established as part of a collaboration with Microsoft back in 2014 when the company first began work on its Hololens, the media giant is spinning out the team as it explores the broader sale of certain assets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2011

Internet marketers see it as a better way to target consumers, and even retarget them to close a sale. Event marketing. If you know your contacts’ real-life interests, you could use that information in your marketing efforts. Are you seeing a lot of your contacts attending certain business events? Thought leadership.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

Each of them has different programs, but we get four to ten percent of a sale. The rest of the model will include things like customized marketing and advertising in a more focused way, all about entertainment. Phoebe Scott: The really big thing we''d like to get going in 2014 is mobile. What''s the next big thing for you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2014

So what do investors look for in qualifying you for that million dollars you need to take your invention from your garage to the market? Investors expect proof that your invention can be manufactured in volume and can justify a sales price at least double the cost to a large customer set that has money to spend.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

We were building about 300 to 400 products a year for other people, including tons of apps, for tons of startups, and were managing tens of millions of marketing spend for those clients every month. Instead, we were going linear, and free, so we just took the market. We were still building the product and marketing it.

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