TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2019

Mumbai-based Haptik, which operates a conversational AI platform , has already won several high profile clients in India. Haptik, which sold majority stake to telecom operator Reliance Jio in a $100 million deal earlier this year, currently offers a chatbot platform. 60% of all software is bought in the U.S.,

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Once we get that strength profile, we match them to a whole world of extracurricular and educational opportunities for them. We take those strengths, as determined by our Neuropsychologists, to develop strength profiles and apply them to describing all of ht extracurricular and educational opportunities that we can curate. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

San Francisco-based Degreed is among the educational technology companies now classified as “learning experience platforms,’’ because they organize staff participation in skills development training and coordinate it with the goals of employers, who are their clients.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The newly merged company will be led by CEO Dr.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The software of Portfolium, a San Diego startup that hosts online portfolios for students trying to showcase their achievements to potential employers, is set to join the portfolio of Utah educational software company Instructure. Students at schools that subscribe use the platform for free.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

For example, Facebook added WhatsApp as a cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service to enhance the self-sustaining growth their social media platform before any downturn. Implement a plan of regular strategic acquisitions. Competitors tend to focus on price and other variations to existing offerings.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2012

founder Dan Dato, the accelerator has merged with Cross Campus, a yet-to-be launched startup building a "collaborative workspace and education platform" in Santa Monica. According to a note to supporters form upStart.LA

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

Our interview today is with Scott Grimes , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Stackin' , which operates a text-based, financial messaging platform. Scott Grimes: Ultimately, we are a text messaging platform build on top of Twilio. Scott Grimes: A lot of it is for new user acquisition. Stackin recentlyraised $12.6M

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

In addition they are a platform (the OS part) where they’re encouraging developers to build third party apps on their platform. ThereNow has build a platform (physical camera + software platform) to help remote coaches help improve teachers. Udemy is an online education platform similar to EduFire and others.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

However, if you talk to a lot of people about who Vantage Media is, a lot of them think we''re still an agency, specifically focused on for-profit education marketing. That technology underpins marketplaces in auto, health, life insurance, and even education. After the acquisition, we have been investing dramatically in that team.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Dr. Vish Banthia: ZendyHealth is an online platform that empowers patients to get quality, affordable health care, including health, dental, and aesthetic procedures. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Currently offers 3mm books to over 5,000 higher education institutions in the US. New funding will be applied toward user acquisition and to expand into new product categories (gourmet food, wine and new services). Online DSP (demand-side platform) and ad exchange for display advertisers. Online text book rental service.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We''ve also built a data driven platform, that allows us to drive millions of unique visitors to our network of sites every month, covering the banking, credit, and travel and vertical markets. Brett Rossman: We have a platform we''ve built, and which we are constantly evolving called Magneto.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2017

What we are doing, is providing full transparency, and demonstrating that we can drive value to businesses who use our platform. What kind of jobs are coming through your platform? Interestingly enough, though, we've also had education. Organic referrals are the major driver of growth for us in the market.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Ian Miller: FatCloud is a data management and software platform company with a NoSQL database. It''s a distributed data platform built for scale, and build for accelerated application development. I moved to the states with my first acquisition. What exactly is FatCloud? They can ask questions by turning up at our free clinic.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 14, 2013

A new platform dubbed Exitround , has launched which claims is “a private, anonymous marketplace for founders to discreetly explore strategic acquisition opportunities.” Many of these companies look at strategic acquisitions to fill their expertise gaps quickly in exchange of significant sums of money.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 7, 2010

Elluminate and Wimba offer advanced virtual classroom technology that allows education institutions to hold synchronous live courses over the Web, including audio, video, white board and social learning capabilities. It will be a standalone platform in the company's education solutions. Blackboard Inc. and Wimba Inc.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Following graduate school, he worked in Film Finance and Sales at CAA, Creative Development at Vuguru (Michael Eisner’s multi-platform studio), and Content Partnerships at Blip Networks. Mike’s work in sales, marketing, distribution, and business development is essential to customer acquisition, growth, and scalability.

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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. We''re also partnering with companies like Donuts to provide a platform to host their registry.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. Who do you view as your biggest competition?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

We thought it was time to jump in, and thankfully, the company had spent a significant amount of time educating the market, and we though the timing was perfect. Our web software platform lets those groups address a younger generation, deal with micro billing and donations, and communicate in the new medium more effective than they used to.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

Jen Consalvo and I expanded the national footprint of events, hosted conferences and festivals, created monthly leadership summits, hosted an interactive educational speaker series, wrote a book, and launched a daily news and resource platform with a new brand – Tech.Co.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2017

If you are proposing a merger or acquisition, or simply seeking an investor for your business, the process is the same. For example, if I don’t know you, and you didn’t sell your last company for $800 million, your story needs to educate me on why anyone would bet on you to succeed, and how you would reward me for success.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Enter the light bulb, which was that this was a real opportunity to create a new platform, which can facilitate connecting experts with users. He built their entire publishing and analytics platform, and spent more than four years there before he came to join us to start this. Bong Koh: We're now in user acquisition and ramp up mode.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Sangster lives in Los Angeles and is actively involved in improving early childhood education.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded, advised, invested and sold numerous businesses, including application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media, Movoxx, PeopleMedia, Brizzly and Myspace. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

When Facebook was opening up their platform, these guys thought that it was an interesting way to do user acquisition and preference acquisition of individuals and that they would be able find a way to monetize it in commerce-oriented verticals. And we also talked about what it’s like to work with Steve Case.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

We know language education is a huge market, with 1/7 of people around the world learning a new language. Something we didn’t know, mainstay education programs have < 1% course completion. Famebit is the world’s first full service platform to connect brands and marketers to Youtube content creators.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

With this in mind, we figured it would be a great opportunity to get a direct look from someone who’s been immersed in the field, and spoke to Chance Barnett, CEO of LA-local investment platform, Crowdfunder. In order to encompass both, they need to build a large platform. ” Platform Focused. CrowdFundX.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

The transaction is considered the largest public acquisition in Bitcoin history with both companies exhibiting impressive growth numbers since their respective beginnings. Dan, now named as Product Manager for the Blockchain acquired Zeroblock apps, tells the audience about life after acquisition. Trading platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

As the end of the year approaches, it’s a good time for every startup to assess the metrics, technology, and platforms they’re using to manage the business. Cost of customer acquisition. Customer acquisition cost is calculated by dividing total acquisition expenses by total new customers over a given period.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

We have an analytics platform that helps advertisers discover information about the demographics of the follower base and the effectiveness of their campaigns. We’re the underlying platform that enables the calls to be tracked like clicks while weeding out fraud. But higher value product sales often require a phone call.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Mike continues to be actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In 1991, Bill started Knowledge Adventure, an educational software publisher that grew to be the third largest educational software publisher in the world and was eventually sold to Cendant Software and is now a division of Havas Interactive, which is owned by Vivendi. Chris Dumler , Co-Founder of Los Angeles Startup Foundation.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.).

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