socalTECH

JULY 30, 2010

decrease in automotive e-commerce revenues, related to continued weakness in demand from automotive dealerships. The total brings the amount spent on acquisitions in the first half of the year to $16.2M The firm had not previously disclosed financial information about its various acquisitions in the quarter. READ MORE>>.

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Internet Brands .Net Acquisition Web 160

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

If we build it, they will come” doesn’t work in today’s worldwide information overload. Mergers and acquisitions also require new skills. You need the funding and support, but venture capitalists can be very demanding, and set high targets. It takes the right team to build a great business.

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Technical Review Case Study Mentor Software Review 131

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

The report--compiled by Ocean Road Partners--included both venture-backed and self-financed information technology companies. The report also tallied six companies having IPOs, the most since 2005; those firms included RealD, Cornerstone OnDemand, Demand Media, ReachLocal and Inphi Corp. A new report released today tallies up $7.7

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Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Report Riot Games 187

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The technologal demands of the fire department extend beyond the drone itself, Fields said. Back in 2018, the Department of Defense issued a ban on the acquisition and use of commercial drones, citing cybersecurity vulnerabilities. “It’s being collected on the drone and 90% of that information is how the drone is operating.

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Los Angeles Angel Training Startup 157

Xconomy

JULY 30, 2019

On Monday, Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN ) informed the markets that it had overshot the mark with its 2019 estimates. The news reflects a slowdown in the demand for mail-in genetic testing kits and a lag in the rollout of some of the government-led population studies for which Illumina provides DNA sequencing tools.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. You mentioned that you've been growing the company recently, and made a recent acquisition? We also just made an acquisition of Jovian over the summer.

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Most Informative Chip Technology Conference of the Year! Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

Southern California 140

Southern California IP Orange County Glendale 140

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

While this reaction to such a valuation is understandable, to anybody who has seen the meteoric rise in consumer demand and actual revenue the valuation is much less surprising and may turn out to be quite conservative. You don’t “Bing” information or “Hulu and chill.” Brand matters. How does the Bird service work? Do you buy one?

Santa Monica 256

Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

Southern California 113

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

Southern California 133

Southern California IP Orange County Glendale 133

socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2015

It's an on-demand, name your own price service. I had seen positive results with our on-demand tests to justify the next step in expanding the platform, which is essentially what we've done. The consumer doesn't have educated information on what they might be getting into and the costs when they enter the health care system.

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Pricing Startup Demand Platform 100

socalTECH

JUNE 26, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Key Information Systems ([link]. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon IP 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. The Most Informative Chip Technology Conference of the Year! Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed.

Advertising 113

Advertising Southern California IP VentureNet 113

socalTECH

JULY 24, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Technology.

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Orange County Southern California Westlake Village 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

Viral videos, personal anecdotes, and informal surveys would likely be counterproductive. Always gauge progress by business indicators, like customer acquisition cost and customer satisfaction. Demand professional business skills and customer advocacy. Social media is not all about being social, or treating everyone casually.

Social Media 99

Social Media Media Tool Startup 99

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

One of our big areas of differentiation is the fact that we have all of this technology to improve data, whether that is looking for other, related data sets, merging that data, or using the technology to mine for factual information, and integrate that into the data set. How does that work? They're using our data in various formats.

Startup 190

Startup Google S3 Platform 190

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

RedBeacon went on to sell to HomeDepot in what was considered a very successful acquisition on all sides. But Ethan had left by the time of the acquisition. And I certainly didn’t want him having to trapse up-and-down Sand Hill Road informing every VC of his next idea. Nice sweep! When he left I called him immediately.

CTO Coach 359

CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2009

Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Orange County Southern California IP 100

socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

It''s a perfect opportunity for data geeks in marketing and the business side to get information on customers in real time. We''re growing and scaling to meet the demands of the market. How Smartify''s platform is unique, is that we convert at a higher rate, because we deliver relevant information to targets with appropriate actions.

Marketing 196

Marketing Pasadena Platform Email 196

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Our goal is to make the enormous volume of real-time information more manageable for the 99% of companies that lack the infrastructure to process these volumes in real time. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. Real-time information drives commerce.

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. New funding will be applied toward user acquisition and to expand into new product categories (gourmet food, wine and new services).

Venture Capital 217

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

However, the good news is that for most investors, you can certainly change the question and get a lot more information without ever building the MVP. Investors demand more than that. That's an even tougher hurdle. Yes, that's correct. Sorry, but that's the reality.

Metrics 264

Metrics Venture Capital News Product 264

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Don’t assume titles will convey this information. Don’t let your passion convince you that word-of-mouth and viral marketing will suffice against well-funded competitors and ever more demanding customers. The options here include going public (IPO), merger/acquisition, liquidate, or no exit, just paying off investors.

Product 169

Product Summary Startup Examples 169

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

Orange County 113

Orange County Southern California IP Glendale 113

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Of course when you think about it it’s kind of obvious but when people make snap judgments about information they hear about companies or read about in the press they often don’t take the time to start to consider the details. If there was strong market demand for their product then this investment might pay off handsomely.

Startup 227

Startup Venture Capital Sales Course 227

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

There''s a huge demand for a limited supply of employees, in particularly, there a large demand for product developers, and there''s a shortage of experienced people. We extract all of that data, to get them all of the information and helps them get through all of them. The other piece, is user acquisition.

Design 174

Design Sites Cornerstone OnDemand Startup 174

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

They often are very good at getting information out of people, helping create a framework for making decisions and pushing for support amongst the organization from those that back the decision and those that do not. She’s protecting them from the most intellectually demanding activities. Leaders are intelligent, for sure. ON SUCCESS.

CTO Hire 363

CTO Hire Technical Review Startup Demand 363

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

In particular we talked about how 3rd-party apps have a lot more access to your personal information than you think – especially if a friend of yours gives access to an app it can inadvertently give that app access to your details, too! Potentially limits acquisition opportunities for independent ad networks.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

The firm's CEO and co-founder, Jennifer Sargent , has an interesting background, most recently serving as an executive at Variety/Reed Business Information. As a result, consumers would go away after they hit that information. How did you decide to launch HitFix? They are getting more an dmore challenging to reach.

News 173

News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

People are demanding more and more experiential opportunities out of their leisure holidays. It's the first year that baby boomers have been eligible for retirement benefits, and there are people with discretionary income, even in these economic conditions, who are demanding these experiences. For the most part, tour operators love it.

Web 100

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2011

The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” every patent can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors, or for M&A exits (merger and acquisition). Another argument is that software by itself is information, not physical. It is in the jargon not “technical.”

Patents 91

Patents Software Technical Advisors Innocal 91

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

So there is likely robust demand from borrowers. And of course the big question is whether Salesforce.com can out innovate these startups (especially after their acquisition of InStranet ). Expect great things from Assistly. But the honeypot of information in companies is still in email. Enter P2P lending. 2.2mm in Series A.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We've been able to harvest lots of scientific advances from Kevin Knight (editor's note: founder and Chief Scientist, and a researcher at USC's Information Sciences Institute), which we've been able to include in our business. It's gone from document acquisition, to document exploitation. who have recognized this.

Software Review 145

Software Review USC Content Tech Coast Angels 145

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

We were literally on the cusp of launching our prpoduct, and all of our work and money to date had gone into getting the innovative technology out of Caltech, exploring the marketplace, and making sure the product features matched with the demand of the market, which it clearly did. Interesting. So what's going on with the fund nowadays?

Startup 185

Startup Southern California Ideas Research 185

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

On-Demand Lawn Care and Snow Plowing. B2B Demand Generation on Auto-Pilot – Metadata analyzes your inbound signups and automates b2b user acquisition by targeting new look-alike prospects. Attorney On Demand – Via Video Chat – New App. So the team often jokes, ‘Slap away bad deals with LafaLafa’. AngelList: [link].

Startup 40

Startup Training SaaS Walnut 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on. So I thought I would.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356