socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Irvine-based Local.com , the online operator of local search advertising sites, said today that it has suspended its acquisition of LEC-billed subscribers, and will focus on providing its own, credit-card local business product, Exact Match. down and $495 per month for customers who want the firm to develop keyword-based local web sites.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 7, 2009

SEO for Startups and Negative Customer Acquisition Costs ) and, of course, the product itself. Normally the product is defined as a web site. Most founders are fairly passionate about the features and functions of the web site, iPhone application, Facebook application, or whatever web application represents the product.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The latest investment is being used to finance the acquisition of another company in the space — Appetize, a digital and mobile commerce payments platform for enterprises such as sports and entertainment venues, theme parks and zoos. The acquisition of Appetize extends SpotOn’s reach to the enterprise space in a major way.

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Technical Review Software Review Invest Acquisition 296

Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2017

ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW ), the Santa Clara, CA-based giant that provides cloud-based IT services, is boosting its emphasis on human-centered design with its acquisition of Telepathy , a San Diego specialist in customer experience and design. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2018

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Paywire develops software which integrates payment processing with third party systems, web sites, hardware, SAP systems, and processors. payscout is led by CEO and co-founder Cleveeland Brown.

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socalTECH

JUNE 12, 2013

Is that mobile cost-per-click, CPA ad, Facebook campaign, or Pinterest page actually translating into a customer? A new, Santa Monica startup, CampaignEQ , is hoping to help marketers better attribute increases in mobile customers and traffic to their marketing campaigns, with a new product. READ MORE>>.

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Mobile Marketing Santa Monica Advertising 249

socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2013

DreamHost, which is led by Simon Anderson, said the funds will go towards accelerating customer growth worldwide. Dreamhost offers up a wide range of web hosting services, including domain name registration, web hosting, Wordpress hosting, cloud computing, cloud storage, and other services. READ MORE>>.

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Cloud Computing Web Acquisition Los Angeles 250

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The company--led by longtime cloud and hosting services veteran Simon Anderson--offers up managed services and consulting for cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. According to the newly formed company, it completed all three of those mergers earlier in 2018, and now has a customer base of 175 enterprises.

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Services SaaS Los Angeles Education 133

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

I suggest looking for painful problems to solve, rather than “easier to use” or “nice to have” solutions, for customers with money. Customers line up to believe and buy from people who are viewed as leaders or experts relative to a specific solution. Collaborate with customers to tune your solution.

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Outsource Development Social Media Software Review Customer 154

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Customer Service – As newspaper boys were the face of their employers, savvy carriers learned to establish healthy customer relationships to facilitate timely collections and generous tips. Although paperboys decreasingly delivered morning papers, the early hours, hazardous conditions (e.g., Alternatives. from the Wharton School.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world. What inspired you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

A healthy business, ready to scale, has been doing this for a year or more, with an existing customer set generating a non-trivial and growing revenue stream. High customer loyalty and high team passion. Growing appreciation for the value of the solution provided. Martin Zwilling

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 16, 2010

According to the firm, the new product provides Web presence management to its customers, helping customers to drive their online search discovery, manage their reputation, and also manage social media marketing. The firm said the product is a result of its acquisition of SMB:Live back in February. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

A healthy business, ready to scale, has been doing this for a year or more, with an existing customer set generating a non-trivial and growing revenue stream. High customer loyalty and high team passion. Growing appreciation for the value of the solution provided. Martin Zwilling.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Move--which has major operations in Westlake Village--said the acquisition will allow it to deliver greater value to its customers. million property listings, from more than 270 MLS systems and 38,000 brokers, to more than 70 real estate marketing web sites. ListHub syndicates 2.4 READ MORE>>.

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Westlake Village Acquisition Sites Web 198

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based TSi Auto Solutions , a provider of web-based auto dealership management software, said today that it has acquired AutoSoft , a Seattle firm which develops financial reporting and analytics products for the automotive OEM market. TSi Auto Solutions said the acquisition increases its customer base by 30 percent.

Manhattan Beach 150

Manhattan Beach Software Acquisition Web 150

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In 2020, the pandemic radically changed the customer acquisition process for many consumer-facing industries. As well as major innovations like our AI-driven customer sentiment analysis, to help our clients listen and adapt to quickly changing consumer behaviors and expectations. Contact our editors for details.

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Technical Review Software Review Organic Search Startup 140

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

For ThinkNear , it looks like the whole process paid off in less than two years, after the Los Angeles company went from the TechStars accelerator just last June, to a healthy acquisition by TeleNav earlier this month for $22.5M. Congrats on the acquisition! How did the acquisition come about? Everything got easier.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It has developed technology to give people a way to pay bills outside of traditional methods, such as through the mail, over the phone or via a Web portal. Our cost of customer acquisition is very low relative to a lot of fintechs,” he said. Papaya is a Los Angeles-based startup with a mission to do just that.

Mobile 208

Mobile Artificial Inteligence Startup Los Angeles 208

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

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. Then companies can determine promotional effectiveness by narrowly defined customer segments, by location, or by delivery channel. Movie recommendations.

Startup 99

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

For additional growth, most companies expand the product portfolio to cater to more customers, and sell more to existing customers. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!

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Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2019

Chris Loughlin is CEO of the company, which develops web, text, mobihle, and voice applications to automate refill requests and reminders, and also helps with marketing, including social media, online advertising, electronic newsletters, and more that pharmacies can send to their customers. READ MORE>>.

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Invest Newsletter Social Media Equity 113

socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. What enabled you to get that first customer on board? We were really focused on customer acquisition.

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Marina Del Rey Software Review Startup Incubator 113

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

We know this is a feature that’s good for customers. This encouraged them to deploy logical, common sense solutions that were in the best interest of its customers. Web-based businesses must compete in the blinding light of total transparency. Being Simpleminded Is A Good Thing. You have to use your judgment. Let’s do it.’” .

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Tips Framework Metrics Cloud Computing 223

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

In many cases, I can break it down into: Customer Acquisition Cost – how will you reach prospects, how will you convert them and how much will it cost to convert them Customer Lifetime Value – how much will you make off of each converted customer This very simple model works for a surprising number of business models.

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Metrics Startup Web 2.0 Slides 225

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

For instance, All Web Leads , a customer acquisition marketing business, needed to hire 100 employees each month. The videos are completed by the candidate in their free time,” said All Web Leads recruiter Amy Hargrove. Then it takes weeks — or even months — to find the right candidate.

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Screening Web Writing Resource 203

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

4 times / 100 means if a customer uses your app frequently (say 10-20 times / day) then they are crashing nearly every day. Customer Acquisition. At the highest level you’ll obviously want to track how many customers your adding every month (and for some businesses that have hit scale this is measured on a daily basis).

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Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2010

Mehdi Daoudi is CEO of CatchPoint Systems (www.catchpoint.com), a new Los Angeles startup focused on the web site and web application monitoring industry. We're trying to make monitoring of web sites and applications sexy and simple. That's why web performance and web monitoring mean serious dollars.

Tool 232

Tool Web Startup Sites 232

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

If you’re just a content company your advantages are too small to win on the web. This kind of spend happens all day long inside startup companies and 100% of the spend on attracting customers is a cost. Summary : YouTube as a customer acquisition tool to building great online businesses is unrivaled today.

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SEM Content Platform Acquisition 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The second bullet, getting feedback from customers is most often not valid either. Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites.

Technical Review 338

Technical Review CTO Hire CTO Coach Software Review 338

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2015

2014 was the most active year in TVC history as measured by the number of investments/acquisitions/follow-ons/exits we completed. Build a great team that is focused on providing a unique product or service that offers something of great value that your customers simply cannot live without. maybe even 10x. READ MORE>>.

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Capital Cloud Computing Southern California Equity 100

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2009

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Networks In Motion also said that it will not be entering the traffic data business, as the acquisition did not include TrafficGauge's hardware devices business, customer base, service contracts, or Web properties. TrafficGauge was based in Seattle.

Networking 100

Networking Acquisition Web Services 100

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

- SoCal CTO , January 13, 2010 5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 No Accounting For Startups - Steve Blank , February 22, 2010 Startup Advice In Exactly Three Words - #StartupTriplets - OnStartups , January (..)

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Pasadena-based Foodme (www.foodme.com) is one of the first, external startups funded out of Idealab's New Venture Group, and is looking to help connect restaurants with customers using a CPA model. We don't cannibalize their existing customers base. John Delacruz: Right now, people come to our web site and tell us what they want.

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Idealab Pasadena Pasadena Angels Demand 217

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

That business includes our main registrar platform, which supports 20,000 resellers around the world, and also includes such acquisition as we''ve done such as name.com, domain auctions with Namejet, and a bunch of other activities. The app store is crowded, and the web is also crowded too. We''re now supporting lots of the new TLDs.

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Demand HTML Web Media 231

socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Auto Parts, a online retailer of aftermarket auto parts and accessories, announced today that it has acquired the assets of AutoMD.com, an online auto diagnosis and repair web site. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. According to U.S. AutoMD is based in San Jose.

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Carson Guide Sites Web 124