TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2019

Musk has been teasing the car’s release since 2015, and in a January letter to shareholders said that high volume production would begin by the end of 2020. Tesla said that to achieve this lower price it will shift all sales globally to online only, meaning the company will be closing many of its stores over the next few months.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2015

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the provider of negotiation-free, car buying services which is led by Scott Painter, said late Thursday evening that it has ended a partnship it has with AutoNation. TrueCar said that AutoNation had represented 3.1 The two cut ties after a dispute over sharing of customer information.

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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. That includes e-commerce retailers, which continue to claim a growing slice of overall retail sales.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Pakedge Device & Software , a provider of home and business networking products and services, has been acquired by Control4 in a $32.7M in sales in 2015, and had been led by Victor Pak and Dusan Jankov. deal, the companies said this week. Pakedge has offices in Huntington Beach. Pakedge had approximately $18.5M

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 8, 2015

Here are some of the fun and the weird highlights found at CES 2015. Besides his wacky movements and sales techniques, the real reason to watch the presenter is for a chance to win the Creative Roar and other prizes. United States Postal Service. CES Events 2015 America Express bitcoin BMW Samsung' Creative Audio.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Today, one of the companies that is supplying produce and other items both to consumers and other services that are in turn selling food and groceries to them, is announcing a new round of funding as it gears up to take its next step, an IPO. ” I don’t doubt that he means it. ” I don’t doubt that he means it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

These days, I’m hearing more and more that Location-Based Services (LBS) are entering the mainstream for mobile users, but I’m not sure why. LBS data can not only give you information to drive the relationship, but you can also use it to identify your sales reps with similar interests and partner them with the prospect.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2011

These days, I’m hearing more and more about Location-Based Services (LBS) as the next big opportunity for startups. Internet marketers see it as a better way to target consumers, and even retarget them to close a sale. They claim 51% of the people surveyed around the world have already used LBS.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Early this year, IDC predicted that worldwide spending on public cloud services will be $141 billion in 2019, while last year Amazon Web Services achieved net sales of $7.88 The Continued Growth of Cloud. Where security concerns may have previously put companies off cloud, the tide may now be turning.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Barry Lieberman: My backgruond is about 35 years in technology, business development, and sales and marketing. 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

AUGUST 7, 2015

Customers may be attracted to your marketing message, but investors look harder at the startup team, seeking superior expertise in the key areas of growing a business, product domain, financial, marketing and sales. Specific elements of your marketing and sales plans. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/29/2015.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 21, 2019

When this occurs, as it nearly always does, retailers return unsold inventory, which makes it difficult (at times impossible), for the fashion company to service its debt, resulting in bankruptcy. This model works well until the brand falls out of favor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2016

You may also be able to barter your services to offset theirs. Practice your sales skills early. For services, don’t be afraid to ask for a retainer up front to offset your costs. Popular examples include monthly subscription fees and optional service fees, versus one-time product sales. It never hurts to ask.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On Monday, nine startups began a 16-week program at Canopy San Diego , a new accelerator program for seed-stage companies developing new technologies, products, and services to support the legal cannabis industry. And in fact, California surpassed France as the world’s sixth-largest economy, based on 2015 economic data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

These days, I’m hearing more and more that Location-Based Services (LBS) are transforming the smartphone Industry, but only for consumers. LBS data can not only give you information to drive the relationship, but you can also use it to identify your sales reps with similar interests and partner them with the prospect. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

I moved over to work in software-as-a-service, at Cornerstone OnDemand, before its IPO. We took it to the market in January of 2015. W actually opened up a second office in Columbus, Ohio, to serve as our East Coast sales office, and we're building out our sales force here in Los Angeles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

That means your marketing must now include shopping apps, location-based services and mobile wallets. Interaction with customers is usually started by responding dynamically to customer-service requests, but must be extended to online chats, comments and social media. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/19/2015.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

Zingle, a Carlsbad, CA-based tech startup targeting the service industry and consumer-facing businesses with its messaging app technology, has raised $3 million in venture capital, according to a regulatory filing earlier this month. The company raised $1 million last year, according to a 2015 regulatory filing.

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Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

In fact, they led the way for the state’s GDP growth of 3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015, which was the highest in the nation , according to the U.S. Their first thoughts likely turn to agriculture and manufacturing. We’re very proud of those industries. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015. Although the carriers made a lot of money initially by selling dial-up Internet services, customers never took their software because, well, it sucked. The Mother of All Exclusivity Agreements – the iPhone Wouldn’t Exist . Excite, MSN and eventually Google. ” 3.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 30, 2016

Taking into consideration that total global card volume for 2015 weighed in at almost $29 trillion, it’s easy to see how billions of dollars are lost globally to card fraud each year. It also employs high grade protection services to keep card details locked down and secure. But there is much work left to do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2015

For example, a technologist needs a strong finance person or a strong sales person who is willing and able to make decisions. This also applies to how you both see quality, service, work ethic and employee relationships. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/08/2015. Shared vision, values and culture.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

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. million in loans to small and medium businesses, up about 45 percent from the first half of 2015.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

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. million in loans to small and medium businesses, up about 45 percent from the first half of 2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2015

Passionate entrepreneurs tend to talk on and on about their disruptive technology, their intent to change the world and free services, but if a business can’t provide quantifiable value to real customers, the dream will likely turn into a nightmare. Skip the sales pitch and avoid preaching. Build up for the punch line at the end.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2015

David Kierzkowski: We''re the first, and the leading marketplace that connects YouTubers to brands for product and service endorsements. Agnes had developed a subscription service a year and a half ago, and wanted to try to connect with some YouTubers to promote that service on YouTube. How long have you been working on this?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 28, 2016

For example, if a company website generates extensive visitor traffic at a particular point in time, the enterprise may continue to serve customers without obvious interruptions in service because its cloud-based server architecture permits the distribution of visiting traffic among servers in different locations. Greater Niche Functionality.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Amazon has long embraced that reality, trading potential short-term profits for surer long-term gains and growing instead through a series of data-driven steps designed to continually expand its products and services, its marketplace, and its audience. The primary e-commerce change would come in the form of new customer expectations.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

. —Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) paid over $400 million in August to acquire Nervana Systems , the two-year-old San Diego startup offering its machine learning technology as a cloud-based service. million in a Series D round of investment capital, according to founder and chairman Tony Farwell.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

We just recently brought in a CFO, a CTO, and also brought our technology team in house, so we are positioned to move our product forward, and grow and hire sales people in all of these different cities. We think we''ll be in about 15 markets by the end of 2015, and we''re on a very good track, and are more than halfway there.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

For automotive sales associates, the rewards were prizes, trips, etc. Well in looking at the situations where I’ve been personally involved in big impact, really moving the needle on factors like sales, customer satisfaction, loyalty – this kind of approach was commonly used. So the question is whether it’s worth the effort.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

If you were a big company like Proctor & Gamble, for instance, you'd have a whole side of your business with IT, for your sales, marketing, and financial folks. They are backed by GE and others, who are trying to solve problems in the functional areas of industrial, financial services, and healthcare.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Buddytruk is the latest peer-to-peer vehicle service to hit the streets of LA. Like Lyft and Uber , the service is utilized through the use of a smartphone app to request a driver to aid you in your quests. Unlike the two ride-sharing services, Buddytruk isn’t a ride-sharing service. AJ: Absolutely!

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2016

billion in 2015 alone. Facebook has Anthology, a service that connects business with media partners to help them produce quality videos to promote their brands online. Social networking continues to be a superior force in marketing, especially Facebook. According to emarketer.com , Facebook earns 65.5 That was $15.5

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

For those who have never used Happy Returns, tell us how the service works? Some of the big milestones we did, include a seed round of financing in the fall of 2015, which was led by Upfront Ventures. 2019 will be all about more and bigger, with a bigger retail presence and services we offer. There are two things.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2015

Jet also uses a variety of tactics — passing along its own sales commissions; offering discounts for longer delivery times, the waiving of returns, and shorter shipping routes; etc. — The plan is to scale up quickly enough to reach 15 million members and $20 billion in revenue from merchandise sales by 2020.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

In the case of San Diego's Classy (www.classy.org), you get an extremely popular piece of software-as-a-service to help you manage a nonprofit and its fundraising efforts. Scott Chisolm: There's a clear ROI case for a nonprofit, and it's similar to driving sales in a for-profit company. Can you talk briefly about your venture funding?

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