Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies. Steve Jobs still walked from his house on Waverly to the Apple Store on University Ave.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2016

According to Yardi, residential property owner and manager Old El Paso Real Estate adopted the company's Yardi Genesis software, for its property management and accounting software earlier in 2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

With the advent of social media and the pervasive move to smartphones, even customers who still prefer to purchase in brick-and-mortar stores have dramatically changed their shopping habits. If you refuse to play by their rules, they have the power to easily find alternatives, and actively pull other potential customers away.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Both Poghosyan and Gudanis have long histories in identity and access management, back in 2009 Poghosyan founded Advancive Technology Solutions, which was acquired by Optiv in 2015 to bulk up its identity access management service. The company already has over a dozen customers using its technology after launching merely two years ago.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

Most importantly, it’s more about being a proactive leader who connects to customers and the team deeply, rather than a bright light that struggles to be seen amidst the glare of a million other bright lights. Marty Zwilling Published on IvyExec.com on 11/05/2015. Everyone recognizes the visible and verbal queues of energy.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Good Eggs says that in the past year, revenue has grown to the nine figures (more than $100 million), hired more than 400 employees and nearly doubled its customer base. In addition to the funding, Good Eggs is also announcing that it has hired Vineet Mehra as its chief growth and customer experience officer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2016

In business, this means an entrepreneur who never says no to any customer is doomed to a hard life and some expensive mistakes. Many people will argue that total customer satisfaction is paramount, but I’m a pragmatist who believes that treating everyone the same really means treating all of them poorly.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2015

With the 2015 holiday shopping season now upon us, it’s “go time” for retailers across the country — an opportunity to put their carefully crafted holiday plans into action and deliver on their bottom-line expectations. Plus, holiday e-commerce sales are widely expected to continue rising in 2015. Focus On The Consumer.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

With Darkstore, companies like Nike, Adidas and Levis are able to offer same-day delivery to customers by storing their products inside Darkstore’s urban fulfillment centers. While all of the products available on FastAF will come from a Darkstore, not all of the retailers featured in FastAF are Darkstore customers.

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socalTECH

APRIL 17, 2019

Santa Monica-based cloud-based learning and human capital management provider Cornerstone OnDemand is looking to attract more small business customers, as it extends from its core enterprise market, by offering up a free trial to those businesses. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2019

According to L Squared, since its investment in Virtium in July of 2015, Virtium saw its organic revenues more than double, and a tripling of its EBITDA. the company provides customized, ruggedized, and highly engineered industrial grade embedded solid state drive (SSD) and memory products.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Custom Tableware to improve the lives of cognitive impairments – Eatwell : After her grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, Founder Sha Yao set out to design a better way for patients with Alzheimers to feed themselves to make eating a less labor-intensive exercise.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

I received a press pass to DeveloperWeek 2015 last week in order to attend the “Advice to Live by from Women Developers” career panel moderated by the lead of Dice’s engineering team, Jennifer Petersen. Now you’d think we’d be a bit farther along today in 2015, right? for customers).

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2017

The privately held firm did not disclose any financial details of the quarter, only saying that it increased Q1, year-over-year new customer wins by 100%, adding such customers as Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company and Canadian transportation company Bison Transport. It says it now has more than 600 customers. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2016

The company said it had record growth in 2015, and now has over 430 enterprise customers and more than 1 million users. Chrome River is backed by private equity investor Great Hill Partners, which invested $100M in the company in June of 2015. The company did not say what that translates to in terms of revenues.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2015

percent of its total revenues in the first quarter of 2015, and that it estimates that its users supplied 7 percent of AutoNation's Q1 2015 new vehicle sales. The two cut ties after a dispute over sharing of customer information. TrueCar said that AutoNation had represented 3.1

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2015

Techstars Disney Accelerator class of 2015 was announced yesterday. HYP3R enables businesses and brands to identify influential customers at their locations and engage them in real time, when it matters most. Techstars Disney Accelerator Class of 2015 appeared first on TechZulu. 2 3D-Printing Companies. Influencer Targeting.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

Irvine-based customer service outsourcing provider Alorica said Wednesday afternoon that it has paid $275M for the agent services businesses of West Corporation. billion in revenues in 2015. alorica business process outsourcing west corporation merger acquisition customer service nearshoring offshoring' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

million to the FTC and the State of New Jersey, to settle charges that it has been collecting the viewing history of its customers without their consent. The charges had been filed by the Federal Trade Commission and the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General in 2015.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Slacker said Thursday that it will offer up a new Slacker Radio app on select Lexus models, and soon on select Toyota model years from 2011 to 2015. Slacker said the apps will give Toyota and Lexus owners the ability to create personalized, custom radio stations featuring news, comedy, and music.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Since it launched in 2015 it has expanded into adjacent categories and become one of the biggest retailers of the current e-commerce craze. These days, GOAT is about more than just shoes, at least according to the company.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2015

Los Angeles-based ParkMe , the real time parking information app developer, has scored a win over at Texas A&M University, the company said this week, to allow customers to purchase electronic parking passes online. Financial impact of the win was not announced.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2016

The company did not disclose any financials, but said it saw nearly 200% growth in the first half of the year compared to the same period in 2015. San Diego-based SmartDrive Systems , which develops video-based, driver monitoring systems, announced today that it had record growth in its second quarter and first half of 2016.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2016

3PL Central said that the acquisition will help it to accelerate its product development cycles, provide more solutions, and bolster its Customer Success team. 3PL Central is led by John Watkins, who remains CEO of the combined company; 3PL raised funding from Mainsail Partners back in 2015. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2016

The company said that it already has seen more than 50,000 customers clicking in through those links in the last few weeks, resulting in 21,000 orders for its restaurant customers. ChowNow is led by Christopher Webb.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. We help our customers weave together all the data across all of their data streams,” Lunsford said.

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StartUp Beat

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Grigori Mikayelyan was a failed and an aspiring entrepreneur; furnished with a new idea – and determined to make a success of it – he became a Lyft driver to conduct customer research with his passengers. per customer and generally offer 5-15% off, which can be adjusted for different times. Restaurants pay $0.50

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Under Hsieh’s leadership, Zappos revolutionized the apparel industry, and e-commerce in general, by being one of the first to prioritize customer satisfaction and service. To build trust in e-commerce with the greater public, his company came up with innovative ideas and fostered new customer behaviors.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2016

Willdan said Genesys had approximately $30M in revenues in 2015, and provides planning, design, project management, and commissioning services for the energy and utility infrastructure of major facilities and large building complexes. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2016

Los Angeles-based Pipeliner CRM , the developer of customer relationship management software led by Nikolaus Kimla, has rolled out a new release of its CRM tools, which it says adds new data visualization capabilities. Actual revenue numbers were not detailed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2015

San Diego-based software developer Tealium , which develops software used to manage enterprise "tags", those snippets of codes used for tracking advertising, marketing, analytics, and other efforts, said today that it had 100% growth in the first quarter of 2015. The company did not disclose any actual revenue numbers.

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socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2016

In addition to standard storage services, the startup takes photographs of its customers' various items, and provides an online inventory of that stuff. The funding comes on top of a $10.75M funding round closed in October of 2015 for the startup.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Past investors also included Y Combinator, where GrubMarket was part of the Winter 2015 cohort), and for some more context, GrubMarket last raised money in April 2019 , $28 million at a $228 million valuation, a source says. “We had to limit our daily delivery volume in some regions, and put new customers on waiting lists.”

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The company said its Series A was raised in 2015, and came from Index Ventures. The company said its founding team came from Etsy, and that its software is already being used by such customers as Under Armour, Etsy, Yelp/Eat 24, Shutterstock, Prezi, and others.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Nothing is changing for our customers at this time, and we’ll be in touch with customers as and when we have further updates. ” However, the platform shuttered in 2015, just five years after its launch. That's not bad but it's miles off market leader Shopify which boasts millions of customers.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2016

Los Angeles-based RadPad , the mobile rental marketplace startup led by Jonathan Eppers, says it proceed $40M in mobile credit and debit rent payments in 2015, and has inked a deal with MasterCard. The company, backed by Altpoint Ventures and Goldcrest Investments, said that MasterCard is giving its customers a low 1.99

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2015

Name of the carrier was not announced, nor were financial terms of the deal, however, Boingo said that the deal will offload Wi-Fi on 40 million handsets using Boingo''s network in 2015. Boingo explained that the system will automatically connect a customer''s device into its network without user interaction.

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