socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2020

Oblong and Glowpoint merged in October of 2019, and since then the merged company has been switching over to the Oblong name, produts, and trading symbol. Oblong provides its collaboration products to enterprise and other customers; the company's UI was originally developed at the MIT Media Lab. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical to the development of the core technology that make Alphabet’s Google and the social media giant Facebook so profitable… and Zappos. Srinivasan (@balajis) March 8, 2019. — Balaji S.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 23, 2020

Despite being one of the most popular apps of 2019 , monetisation has largely eluded the company up to now. One the other hand, the deal is significant also because it underscores how TikTok is increasingly working to legitimise itself in the wider tech and media marketplace.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 6, 2020

2019 was the year podcasting turned into a major industry. A few high-profile acquisitions put Spotify into the running against Apple, while buzzy new startups like Luminary jumped into the pool as well. Podcast celebrity Griffin McElroy admitted in a 2019 workshop that he still uses it to edit three podcasts a week.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

What You Can Learn From Public Markets It doesn’t really take a genius to realize that what happens in the public markets will filter back to the private markets because the ultimate exit of these companies is either an IPO or an acquisition (often by a public company whose valuation is fixed daily by the market). Except the music stopped.

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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. At the time, it was doing Facebook media buying for e-commerce companies. And then bit by bit, we grew the organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The most cost-effective marketing approaches have changed; from catalogs to web sites, and from television commercials to social media. Yet I still see expense budgets based on traditional channels, with no strict metrics on cost of customer acquisition by channel, or lifetime customer value. Excessive support and return activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2019

As a startup, you need to build a large customer base quickly, as Airbnb did with social media work around oversubscribed big-city conferences. Tech startups tend to dismiss offline customer acquisition strategies, such as organizing events, creating on-the-ground operations, or incentivizing users to promote their services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2019

With the real data from that surge, you need to take a hard look at business model realities, cost of customer acquisition, inventory costs, and other key metrics. It’s time to really focus on social media, videos, and email. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/15/2019.

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