Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

In my view, the pendulum is swinging back, with investors looking more for the traditional indications of business integrity, stability, and growth: Some element of organic growth is a good thing. Re-investing profits to grow the business is organic growth. High customer loyalty and high team passion.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Understandably, the pricing has to be excessive to provide sufficient margin for the product’s producer and an adequate incentive for the non-profit organization. By breaking the link between work and reward , such endeavors do little to foster youthful entrepreneurship. Alternatives. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2009

San Diego-based The Active Network , an operator of a network of services for community, sports, and other organizations, said today that it has released a new product focused on event management.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2013

The tool, which lets users analyzing the web traffic from their promotions, lets users click into a map of where users are interacting with their promotions, and get detailed demographics data--household income, education, net worth, neighborhood data, and more--at the street level.

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Tool Startup Template .Net 215

Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2024

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Want to browse the web privately? ? To be eligible for the program, you need to be a NASE member, and monthly and Silver members have to be involved with the organization for over 90 days. The organization offers $1,000 to successful applicants each month, and one of these monthly winners will be awarded $10,000 at the end of the year.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

If you measure success by exits, the Ring acquisition by Amazon and Cylance acquisition by Blackberry, each for $1 billion, were among the biggest stories of 2018. Signal Sciences, a Culver City web application security company, is adding impressive clients and just closed a $30M Series C that will help it continue to scale.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In 2020, the pandemic radically changed the customer acquisition process for many consumer-facing industries. And we saw a record number of 278 million clicks to local web pages as more consumers looked to connect with businesses locally. Are you a founder, CEO, or investor who would like to participate?

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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. The app store is crowded, and the web is also crowded too.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Email marketing and cross-channel interactive marketing saas solutions provider ExactTarget has acquired Pardot, a marketing automation provider and iGoDigital, web personalization provider in a move that will revolutionize its marketing platform. The acquisitions are meant to make the firm’s marketing platform better.

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Platform Marketing Social Media Web 56

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

If improperly administered, meetings become counter-productive, especially as an organization grows beyond its initial startup phase. Web-based businesses must compete in the blinding light of total transparency. Thus, smaller meetings facilitate efficiency and accountability. Inch By Inch It''s A Cinch.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We had worked at another organization together in online marketing, and learned every aspect of the business, from closing new deals, on-boarding new clients, to building media plans. Obviously, there were situations when we first started our organization, when we were focused on customer acquisition for the mortgage lending vertical.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

We've now been operating for five months, and have become the leading web service for mobile fundraising in the country. Daniel Scalisi: We've got many nationally recognized organizations, including the Children's Miracle Network, the National Breast Cancer Association, the Humane Society, which are just a few of our customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. One of his biggest accomplishments there was championing the acquisition of StubHub. He walked me through both the logic and the math.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

companies, universities, and organizations will be sharing their latest technologies, products, and services in this unique Southern California event. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. portfolio management - U.S.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

One of the startups in that area--born out of a.NET development organization here in Los Angeles--is FatCloud (www.fatcloud.com), which develops a NoSQL database which ties directly into Microsoft''s SQL Server database. The company was actually born in Los Angeles, out of a company which was a.NET development organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Here are factors to consider: Some element of organic growth is a good thing. Re-investing profits to grow the business is organic growth. Startup productivity is embodied in key ratios, including low cost of customer acquisition, high retention and high revenue per employee. High customer loyalty and high team passion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2016

In my view, the pendulum is swinging back, with investors looking more for the traditional indications of business integrity, stability, and growth: Some element of organic growth is a good thing. Re-investing profits to grow the business is organic growth. High customer loyalty and high team passion.

Startup 58

Startup Organization Invest Custom 58

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Cadence, Intel, IBM, Freescale, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, LSI, X-Fab, and many other leading-edge companies, universities, and organizations will be sharing their latest technologies, products, and services in this unique Southern California event. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. Services.

Advertising 113

Advertising Southern California IP VentureNet 113

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Customer Acquisition. How many adds came through organic SEO? If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? Those two things together would lower your acquisition costs nearly in half to $6.11. Ironically, there are times where it may actually pay to INCREASE your customer acquisition costs.

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Metrics Startup SEO Custom 346

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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Training Education Platform Course 82

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

In this case, if enough people enter your organization with a self-serving mindset, such people will eventually dictate that selfish behavior is the norm and it will become part of the de facto culture. If improperly administered, meetings become counter-productive, especially as an organization grows beyond its initial startup phase.

Tips 279

Tips Startup Framework Custom 279

SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

As Steve Blank likes to say: A Startup Is a Temporary Organization Designed to Search for A Repeatable and Scalable Business Model The unfortunate reality is - an MVP is not the above! But never forget that traction is necessary, but may not be sufficient, to lower the risk perception of investors, and assure an investment.

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Metrics Venture Capital News Product 264

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

We have not just engineers, but designers, UI, UX, analytics, product managers, user acquisition, marketing managers, and others. My co-founder and I both had this vision of leveraging mobile and web technology, to make it easier for people to connect to each other in their demographic. Those communities already exist.

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Startup Platform Resource 140

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 31, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : ZipRecruiter enables employers to post to multiple free job boards with one submission – the fastest way to get a job online across the web. We just made it really, really easy to get a job online across the web in a couple minutes. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 31, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : ZipRecruiter enables employers to post to multiple free job boards with one submission – the fastest way to get a job online across the web. We just made it really, really easy to get a job online across the web in a couple minutes. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

MyLife 157

MyLife CitySearch Web Technical Review 157

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

I personally believe that there are lots and lots of good developers working inside of organizations who would love to work on the interesting projects that we work on all the time, yet they arent out actively looking, so its almost impossible to find them. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Los Angeles CTO Hire CTO Coach Develop 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Kixer develops mobile advertising software which helps publishers and connects mobile web users with apps. Talk a bit about where the company was at the time of the acquisition? Most people really hadn't tapped into the mobile web. That enabled us to set up the organization in a fashion that really helped us succeed.

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Mobile Startup Content Advertising 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The other key business we are in is the aftermarket and registrar business, through SnapNames and Moniker, two acquisition we made. So, we've started to do that organically, and through some acquisitions. We recently opened up an office in Germany, and are expanding throughout a lot of Europe.

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Oversee.net Yahoo Startup Google 207

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

My point was that Amazon continues to dominate the web services business because AWS continues to cut prices & margin in the same way a hypermarket does to control market share. And we’re growing our sales organization. Many people (including inside of YouTube) mistook this to mean that I was negative on YouTube itself.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Fallacy: Most large organizations are driven by the fear of loss, rather than hope of gain. In order to reasonably assess the size of your addressable market, you must perform a bottoms-up analysis which is based on a number of elemental assumptions. Thus, it is prudent to grant exclusivity, in order to secure such a partnership.

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Entrepreneur Outsource Ideas Technical Review 272

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. From the press release: Financial Details of the Elluminate and Wimba Acquisitions. Blackboard Inc. and Wimba Inc.

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.Net Education Course Acquisition 49

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? How is this different than the movie clips floating around the web now?

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Startup Los Angeles Content Hollywood 190

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. Plus, a TweetUp already means a meet up in a city organized through Twitter. I think everybody heard about this acquisition. High Profile Deal of the Week: 1. This is “Adsense for Twitter.” In fact, it is Overture 2.0. billion to Yahoo!

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Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. This no doubt led to the acquisition of AdMob by Google and Quattro by Apple. Early evidence is good.

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Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mobile Web America, Inc. Early-stage companies in the web, mobile and ecommerce space are encouraged to apply for the program which completes four cycles per year, culminating in Demo Days that are attended by the region’s top angel investors and VCs. It’s a clutter-free, haggle-free, hassle-free solution to self storage.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Capital efficient, web-based businesses should have a credible plan to self-sustainability. This absurd statement caused me to realize that I had done a poor job of instilling a sense of frugality into our organization. If there happens to be a gas station along the way where you can fill up for a reasonable price, great.

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