socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2020

The company went through a management recapitalization in February of 2018. SmartAction's cloud-based software is used to automate customer service communications on phone, SMS, web chat, Facebook Messenger, and Skype. SmartAction is backed by private equity firms Staley Capital and TVC Capital.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

We've now been operating for five months, and have become the leading web service for mobile fundraising in the country. It's a simple web service, where a customer can log in and can simply create and deploy any level of mobile donation or messaging campaign. It was founded three years ago, and hadn't been succeeding.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

March Capital Partners co-led the Series A funding round for SpyCloud in 2018. SpyCloud's services and products leverage a database of exposed credentials and personally identifiable information it has gathered from the "dark web" and other sources to help identify accounts which might have been compromised. in total funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Statistica reports that almost 20 percent more companies went public in 2018 versus 2017. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. Now you can create a web site for almost nothing - and be on your way with your latest invention or personal services.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

René Pinnell says he and his wife Selena Pinnell were “blown away” by the virtual reality projects their friends were creating in 2014, so they looked for an entrepreneurial niche that would allow them to support such artists. That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR.

Content 71

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2018

In March 2006, Amazon launched Simple Storage Service (S3). Although few people paid much attention at the time, the announcement of S3 marked the beginning of a great migration of data from on-premises storage to the cloud.

S3 67

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 20 million registered developers in 2018. This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit.

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Mobile Develop Development Platform 126

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2014

According to International Data Corporation, wearables will be the fastest-emerging category and become a $12B industry in 2018. Keep up with Wearable Tech LA on the web , or follow them on Facebook or Twitter. You can find pictures from the night here. Wrap up post and video coming soon.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Their patented 12 step accelerator is unlike any other program available and gives direct access to specialists in branding, design, business planning, product fit, strategic planning, web development, growth hacking and so much more. In 2018 & 2019 Expert DOJO made 42 investments. They made 45 more investments in 2020.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

While the company has been steadily rising through the ranks since its inception in 2018, as generative AI becomes big tech’s new gold standard, the New York-based startup has enjoyed a very triumphant 2023. Gumroad Gumroad is a web-builder and ecommerce platform that lets creators sell products directly to consumers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Should you be buying key words from search engines, building fabulous web content, blasting out e-mail campaigns, or putting all your efforts into viral videos or social media? Content that works should be relentlessly repurposed, from web site to social media, events, etc. Add elements of traditional marketing to maximize visibility.

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Marketing Metrics Social Media Content 96

Xconomy

APRIL 9, 2018

companies during the first three months of 2018—marking the strongest single quarter in at least a dozen years, according to the Venture Monitor Report released today by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Venture capital investors poured more than $28.2 billion into U.S.

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Venture Capital Funding Capital Report 74

Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

In mid-2018, Tom Bogan was the leader of business planning software company Adaptive Insights as it planned its own next steps. The Palo Alto, CA-based company was on the point of raising about $115 million in a June IPO that would have set its market value at around $705 million, according to PitchBook. billion acquisition offer.

Acquisition 70

Acquisition Software Artificial Inteligence Marketing 70

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2019

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. Social media and web data. Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — much of it unstructured and far beyond the capability of conventional databases.

Social Media 94

Social Media IBM IBM Commerce 94

Xconomy

JANUARY 28, 2019

Scott Beechuk, a partner at Norwest Venture Partners , is one of the tech industry observers invited by Xconomy to look back at the technology developments of 2018, and also forecast some trends he expects to see in 2019. Palo Alto, CA-based Norwest weathers the uncertainties of technology and the economy with an investing strategy.

Venture Capital 67

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Xconomy

APRIL 10, 2018

million into 37 startup companies throughout San Diego County during the first three months of 2018, maintaining roughly the same level of venture funding seen in recent quarters, according to the Venture Monitor Report. Venture capital investors sank $547.2 The amount of capital invested in the San Diego area was up slightly from the $541.2

San Diego 66

San Diego Venture Capital Funding Report 66

Xconomy

JANUARY 8, 2019

When we have a chance to view it from a distance, the year 2018 may be seen as a period when innovations in a number of technological fields came together to transform not only the future of computing, but also the very structure of the Internet.

Artificial Inteligence 62

Artificial Inteligence Demand Software Development Software 62

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Today there are many more ways to make contact, including email, social media, and web site queries, yet a common complaint I still hear is that no one ever responds. Marty Zwilling First published on CayenneConsulting on 11/19/2018. No one wants to hear that you are too busy for them. What more could anyone want from work?

Customer 90

Customer Custom Social Media Satisfaction 90

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

To get started, go to the International Business Innovation Association web site, and use the lookup tool provided to see what’s available in your area. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor.

Incubator 87

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Customer conversations are easy today, through responding to customers on social media, web live chats, and interactive applications on mobile devices. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/15/2018. They don’t realize that customers today are looking for relationships, meaning two-way conversations with your business.

Marketing 91

Marketing Examples Startup Customer 91

Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

billion at the time of its last fundraising in mid-2018. Lyft sold 30.8 million shares at $72 apiece, according to Renaissance Capital —the top of a new range that Lyft originally set at $62 to $68. The company was valued at $15.1 Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Mobile 57

Mobile Capital Report Marketing 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2019

For customers, the buying experience goes well beyond support after the sale, to include product selection, web site layout, and feedback. Marty Zwilling First published on CayenneConsulting on 12/27/2018. Enable employee or customer shared ownership. Thus, I recommend that you seek to get it right the first time and keep it there.

Customer 92

Customer Custom Mentor Training 92

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Since then, the monthly subscription model has become the norm for a wide range of products and services, from web applications, to hardware, and services of all types. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/24/2018.

Product 86

Product Marketing Education Examples 86

Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

Its aim is to serve as the “largest database of unbiased product recommendations on the open web,” with an emphasis on “unbiased.” eBay is a huge ecommerce platform, earning an annual revenue north of $10 billion in 2018 alone. This avoids broken links and means that any product link is always pointing to the best possible vendor.

Buzzfeed 128

Buzzfeed Technical Review News Networking 128

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. Now you can create a web site for almost nothing - and be on your way with your latest invention or personal services. Looking ahead, Investopedia predicts that in 2018 the supply of VC money will continue to grow.

Entrepreneur 66

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Satisfaction 66

socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2019

In 2018, we got a grant to do a project with industrial processing here in California at a very large industrial facility. Unlike a lot of apps, or web startups, or whatever, which have relatively small capital outlays needed to build their test systems and to iterate, we are making pretty large systems.

Help 113

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

Watch our video series at SXSW 2018 with The Case Foundation. They also align with companies such as Amazon web services, IBM, and many others. With a focus on impact investing, their efforts to drive social change are based on three key pillars: revolutionizing philanthropy, unleashing entrepreneurs and igniting civic engagement.

Startup 137

Startup Technical Review Competition Software Review 137

Xconomy

JANUARY 10, 2019

Yet in 2018, perceptions about these dominant companies often reflected uneasiness and doubt—and for some, so did their stock performance. The market caps of some of the most successful tech titans reach as high as $1 trillion.

Platform 43

Platform Marketing Companies Company 43

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

You need to use the modern vehicles for promotion and relationship building, including a professional web site, social media, and industry conferences to show your expertise, credentials, and connections. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/08/2018. That need to market yourself hasn’t changed since consulting.

Social Media 56

Social Media Software Review Customer Custom 56

Xconomy

OCTOBER 26, 2018

s data privacy regulator fined Facebook $645,000 for violations that allowed political marketing firm Cambridge Analytica and other outside companies to extract 87 million Facebook profiles worldwide without adequate user knowledge or consent. The purpose of the U.K.’s

.Net 84

.Net Organization Marketing San Diego 84

StartUp Beat

JUNE 22, 2018

Even though we launched just eight months ago, LawMaker users already have a grassroots crowdsourced policy idea making its way through the legislative process in the City of Los Angeles ( [link] onlinedocs/2018/18-0045_mot_ 01-16-2018.pdf SB: What is the next step for the Web Platform as it continues to grow?

Platform 40

Platform Ideas Startup Statistics 40

Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) shares gained nearly 3 percent Tuesday, and ticked up further in after-hours trading following the release of a third quarter earnings report that showed some strengths as well as shortfalls. election campaigns.

Social Media 51

Social Media Report Media San Diego 51

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

adult now spends a reported 5 hours and 38 minutes on the web – advances have been made in the way individuals and small businesses operate in the digital world, which will grow even more this year. percent in 2016,and to be almost double 2015 levels by 2018. While a huge push will come from China and the U.S.

Commerce 40

Commerce Mobile Technical Review Google 40

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 By 2018 I sensed that he was right and we began focusing more on our barbell approach. dot-com bonanza. Secrets of Sand Hill Road.

Venture Capital 471

Venture Capital Writing Invest Pricing 471

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The challenge is to increase response rates and propagate a single view of the customer, by integrating customer data from multiple Web and social media interactions. billion by 2018. Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. Predictive advertisement targeting.

Entrepreneur 103

Entrepreneur Social Media Study Guide 103

Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2017

From Portland to Pittsburgh, it’s likely that every city in the U.S. with more than 1 million people has made its case to Amazon to locate the company’s second headquarters there. At least, hopefully they have already, because today—if you haven’t heard—was the deadline to apply.

Development 82

Development Develop Software Development San Diego 82

Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

But when the financial oversight council published its 2018 annual report, it concluded that volatility in the cryptocurrency. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Pricing 89

Pricing Report Invest Venture Capital 89