socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2011

We've developed technology, originally developed at YLighting, which enables us to understand that if a customer comes to a website via marketing, and a cookie was deleted, then subsequently comes back and converts, we know what marketing happened before that cookie deletion. What kind of customers are using the tool?

Startup 210

Startup Marketing Customer Custom 210

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2014

All of these offer the potential for a win-win relationship with a nominal competitor, rather than a win-lose deal, as long as both sides can remain humble and not try to dominate the relationship. Where your competitor isn''t really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers.

Startup 97

Startup Entrepreneur Outsource Competition 97

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2016

All of these offer the potential for a win-win relationship with a nominal competitor, rather than a win-lose deal, as long as both sides can remain humble and not try to dominate the relationship. Where your competitor isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers.

Startup 55

Startup Outsource Competition Entrepreneur 55

InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

Such playground friends serve to ensure the startup’s ongoing viability by providing resources, access to customers and technology and market validation. Creating an effective alliance requires a delicate balance between humbleness and hubris, as described more fully in Humble Pride. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

Entrepreneur 168

Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Startup Conference 168

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 27, 2013

Sometimes the companies with the biggest social good impact, move in a humble motion, creating waves of excellence. This number is made up of both their standard apps and custom apps! This is what I noticed when I stumbled upon ROAR.pro. As a start-up mobile app development company, ROAR focuses on the non-profit and church verticals.

Mobile 92

Mobile Social Media Startup Media 92

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Sign up customers who are paying you money for a service you can’t 100% guarantee is going to be operational for the full period that they’re expecting. I don’t want you to have to eat humble pie with your friends next year! I didn’t want to disappoint my customers. And yet you have to. Raise money.

Blogging 420

Blogging Press Entrepreneur Venture Capital 420

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. Fallacy: AdVentures tend to evolve once you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. 3) Attempt To License An Idea.

Startup 242

Startup Outsource Development Outsource Sales 242

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Along the way many things came together: being able to find the right people, getting great customers, having lots of luck, being in the right place at the right time. From day one we focused on customers. Since then we’ve iterated on trying to provide our customers what they wanted next.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

billion dollar acquisition by LinkedIn to Bessemer’s substantial investment in ProCore , AppFolio ’s recent IPO filing and Sonos ’ $130 million secondary, the Santa Barbara tech scene is unquestionably on fire. This humble innovation resulted an entirely new line of footwear, the Teva sports sandal. From Lynda.com ’s recent $1.5

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Startup Sales Entrepreneur 100

Frank Addante

JULY 30, 2007

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. 6 startups = 1 IPO, 2 acquisitions, 1 failure, millions in venture capital $, hundreds of employees in cities worldwide and the building of my latest venture, the Rubicon Project - one of the fastest growing advertising companies in history. Zondigo, Inc.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Advertising 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

What results must you have in order to raise venture capital or garner good press coverage that helps drive customer acquisition (and also more funding!)? They fund people with no customers. We need to sign up a few more customers and prove we can make money.&#. ON SUCCESS. How do we measure success? Dig deeper.

CTO Hire 363

CTO Hire Technical Review Startup Demand 363