socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Now we're in over 100 cities and have over 10,000 clients, 10,000 tutors, and a platform which is working very efficiently, and gives the customer what they want. In terms of where we offer to our customers, we have 250 different areas, from early childhood to studying for an MCAT or the bar. That's a great question.

Startup 113

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

We have not just engineers, but designers, UI, UX, analytics, product managers, user acquisition, marketing managers, and others. MIT and McKinsey did some studies on this, that showed about $400 billion a year is lost in the tech industry, due to lack of diversity and inclusion. Those communities already exist.

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Startup Platform Resource 140

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

We go through case studies like how Mint.com & Magento drove large audiences through great content marketing strategies. I tell people that they need to blog about their industry to drive customers and not blog to their egos to drive their peer group to their blogs. But I still believe Sean Ellis was right.

Technical Review 384

Technical Review SEM SEO Marketing 384

SoCal CTO

MAY 4, 2010

Some great posts from April 2010 that talk to me in terms of being a CTO at a Startup. Redeye VC , April 13, 2010 Startup Development - SoCal CTO , April 23, 2010 Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

CTO Hire 150

CTO Hire Venture Capital Startup Social Network 150

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 (..)

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value). We need to market to that customer to make them aware of our product or service. Choose that market.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2014

We believe tha restaurant customers are multi-channel nowadays. We have actually develops all of those channels, which enables a customer to pick any channel and enable an order, digitally or through a call center. At the end of the day, that drives increased guest engagement for the customers of the restaurant.

Mobile 127

Mobile Custom Customer Platform 127

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

<Note: I edited a few comments from Jeff's email, none of which related to our meeting in 2008.> Rather, we value entrepreneurs' time and thus our diligence generally includes introducing them to potential customers and partners. The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

The book is a layman’s guide to understanding how we as humans make decisions and is underpinned by data-oriented studies to prove his claims. Anything requiring lead generation and/or customer acquisition I call Matt Coffin. In my next post I’ll talk about using social proof in getting customer traction.

Guide 293

Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

It’s true this was much bigger in the dot com era but I’ve studied the data and know that over the past decade these numbers are right. This happens at acquisition time, too. Many don’t return my emails on time. So if you take 6 very strong performing firms of $250 million and assume they do 5x each that is $1.25

Venture Capital 374

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Invest Funding 374

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2010

50 Scientifically Proven Ways To Be Persuasive , studies support that, “…the more similar the person giving the testimonial is to the new target audience, the more persuasive the message becomes.” Pursue references from a variety of sources, including customers, suppliers, subordinates, etc. As noted in Cialdini et al.’s six months).

Startup 113

Startup .Net Organization Networking 113

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

We discuss user acquisition, scaling issues, and get a great glimpse (and receive some invaluable lessons) into the challenges and inspiration behind Plug.DJ’s rocketship growth. Growing up, I’d always been interested in technology and was one of the only people in my high school to study computer science.

Startup 107

Startup Product Sites Tool 107