socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. How big is YP.com? Louis and Atlanta.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Time will tell.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

We caught up with Dan to hear about how the firm is going beyond online sales, and making shopping online for fashion as much entertainment as e-commerce. We think there is a new category of the e-commerce and shopping sector, the entertainment sector. It's loosely based on the Japanese concept of a "lucky bag sale".

Commerce 153

Commerce Sites Entertainment Social Network 153

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. Is it one product line or multiple? ” The Details.

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

socalTECH

JULY 24, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on. Advertisers. Cox Communications - Orange County - Looking for Product Marketing Manager. A Stanford alum, Aaron wrote the book on sales 2.0. Southern California's high tech news and companies. They include: Sponsors. Think Glendale.

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Orange County Southern California Westlake Village 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Then you assign certain categories to it. People could add notes regarding whatever the category selection of the board determines. For example, goods for sale – people add items that are for sale, their contact details, images of the product. There are also a few influencers in the Product lifecycle.

Advertising 91

Advertising Media News Content 91

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

“I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.” In the “good old days”, pre- 1999, advertising dollars were largely gambled away. No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.” John Wanamaker. It does not happen.

Customer 164

Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). In the US alone there are 30 billion inbound sales calls every year. The reduction in screen size has made the economic model of Internet advertising totally inefficient.

Email 339

Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

com), which offers up local, peer-to-peer sales. It''s a poor experience, and people don''t feel that it''s something they want to associate with, because of many shady, anonymous transactions, and categories on the site which are not family friendly. We operate our site differently, here and in other markets. READ MORE>>.

San Diego 100

San Diego Mobile Marketing Sites 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Is there a way you can make direct mail perform more like digital advertising channels? If you seen the entrepreneurs that disrupt big categories, they came at it from a very different approach, which is not iterative, but is transformative. Dave Fink: Neither Jonathan nor I came from a direct mail background.

CTO Hire 100

CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Traction is evidence that your product or service has started that “hockey- stick” adoption rate which implies a large market, a valid business model, and sustainable growth. As an investor, I would like to see one month of sales, and see how that compares to your projections. Free and freemium products need a solid base.

Startup 106

Startup Metrics Customer Custom 106

socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Those were companies like Maker Studios, disrupting the traditional production of content. Those were the three categories, for a long time, that tended to be the domain of the LA ecosystems, just in terms of the number of startups house here, the funding, where you could attract talent, and really sort of where LA gained a reputation.

Startup 100

Startup Entrepreneur Funding Incubator 100

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Tech support is sales.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. How profitable is my product or service? As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Sites like KickStarter have for years offered rewards and pre-sales for crowd investments, but real equity won’t be legalized until sometime this year for people other than accredited investors. Minimum Viable Product (MVP). It suggests the minimum features to allow the product to be deployed and get feedback, and no more.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Startup Web Equity 109

socalTECH

MAY 28, 2015

It's not some brand new category where you're a startup hoping to find paying customers. It's at least a $20 billion market, and it's even bigger taking into account all of the additional technology products out there being installed. That resonated with a lot of people I talked to. How is this different from other services?

Demand 100

Demand Technical Support Startup Seed Funding 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2012

They’ve announced hiring partnerships with nine Boston-area companies ( Brightcove , Dyn, Inc , Fiksu , Kyruus , Kinvey , Rue La La , Swipely , Trip Advisor , uTest ) across a variety of categories, including: e-commerce, mobile applications, health care informatics, and advertising technology. great jobs.

Education 86

Education Startup Software Review Technical Review 86

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

As a seasoned entrepreneur, Mark in addition to co-founding Appboy, has also founded and was the CEO of XE Mobile, which grew to over 3,500 points of sale across the United States under his direction, and Founder and CEO of Flush Media Inc., The ability to build off of an idea and creating a product, service or brand is an awesome feeling.

Startup 82

Startup Mobile Platform Ideas 82

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Oprah’s thoughts are group into four general categories: Fear, Failure, Success and Humility. However, Oprah felt she had failed to deliver a quality product. After being rejected by ABC, Oprah left WLS, formed Harpo Productions and launched a national show. Her fans knew that she was not “for sale.” Fear – Channel It.

Tips 279

Tips Startup Networking Entrepreneur 279

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. billion in sales and thus controls less than 10% of the market. The top 5 players combined control less than 25% of the market.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

We're doing more than just managing your cash flow, we've also got social elements to our product, some game mechanics involved, things I think will make it something people will actually want to do. That's compared to other financial products, which are designed for managing money, and just feel like work. I think it's really needed.

Startup 197

Startup Ideas Southern California Social Network 197

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. Since I fall into the expert category, my belief is that you should be pretty open with me. " Ummm.

Startup 211

Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. Since I fall into the expert category, my belief is that you should be pretty open with me. " Ummm.

Startup 198

Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

So, we created a site which not just aggregates, but also organizes activities by type, category--land, sea, air--and things like competition, family, culture, adrenaline--to really narrow down the possibilities for what you're looking for. I was in advertising and marketing, working in Newport Beach on the Mazda account.

Activity 164

Activity Startup Sites Web 164

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

On the legal side, my practice in North California and we have an advertising and media group in New York City. We still need some IPOs and some big trade sales to happen to validate the market in a big way. There will be various award winners in different categories, which will be called “Wave Makers”.

Los Angeles 84

Los Angeles Media Invest Startup 84

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

.” Founded in 2007 by Ravishanker and a small group of computer science graduates from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Southern California and Harvard University, CallFire has achieved just under $10 million in sales, is profitable and has built that substantial user base–all without venture funding.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

TechZulu caught up with co-founder Calvin Schemanski chat about their upcoming launch, their product and why Long reviews suck. You can use myfab5 to share your foodie knowledge by ranking up to five of your favorite places for any food or drink related category (e.g. What is myfab5? my favorite places for #DeepDishPizza in Chicago).

Software Review 79

Software Review Technical Review Writing Startup 79

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero. The second “exit”?—?Adly?—?innovated

Venture Capital 363

Venture Capital Capital Funding Startup 363

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. In February, Googles YouTube signed a lease for about 40,000 square feet of production space in Playa Vista.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

The firm made a name for itself representing Skype from formation in 2003 through its ultimate sale to eBay for $2.6 Thanks to our advertisers. Categories Deals. Follow PandoDaily: Search. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Fireside Chat with Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify. Get Tickets. Follow conversation.

Sherman Oaks 44

Sherman Oaks Riot Games Tips Redpoint 44

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

Tech Companies & Calls: I once read a quote on Twitter that said, If you use a tech service for free then product is you. But they make the overwhelming majority of their money from advertising. They are selling audiences to advertisers. Whenever I talk about advertising people comment how much everybody hates ads.

Mobile 311

Mobile Technical Review Google Screening 311

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He formerly served as Director of Product Management for Vocus (VOCS), a global PR and marketing technology provider, where he drove product platform strategy and roadmap execution for a variety of small business products including PRWeb, the leading online news distribution service. Alissa White – Founder of Matcha Source.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Business model: Premium brands offer select goods (often excess inventory) for sale at 40%-70% discounts; consumers need to be invited by existing member or via application to participate in private sales; HauteLook collects percentage of gross sale.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217