InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

The Lean Startup approach dictates that successful customer development is an iterative process. By conceptualizing, selling, gathering feedback and then developing a product, startups achieve success more quickly and economically. Eric (Ries) was a student in one of the very earliest customer development classes at Berkley.

Startup 229

Startup Class Press Custom Development 229

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world. What inspired you?

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2010

According to the companies, users of Magento's e-commerce software can now use Stamps.com to batch print up to 1,000 pre-paid, USPS shipping labels for any mail class. The integration is targeted at helping Magento's e-commerce customers to fulfill orders from their web stores, eBay, PayPal Shops, and other electronic orders.

Software 160

Software Commerce Class Web 160

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2021

Today you can start a new web site business for as little as $100, produce cheap smart phone apps, or lead the effort to tap the multitude of opportunities brought by capitalizing on our concern for dwindling natural resources. This number almost doubles the number who have already moved into the middle class and urbanized.

Startup 162

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Social Media 162

socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

Some recent jobs: VP of Business Development, RampRate - Los Angeles. The Vice President of Business Development reports to the CEO and is responsible for the direction and management of all worldwide sales operations direct and indirect, including market competitiveness, pricing, compensation, and distribution.

SoCalTech 124

SoCalTech SaaS Los Angeles Platform 124

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The more we explored business development opportunities, the more it became clear that there was a much broader and synergistic opportunity to combine with what TeleNav was doing. We can point the customer directly in that GPS all the way to a retail location or advertisers. We had more customers, and more repeating.

Startup 225

Startup Acquisition Doc Ideas 225

Tech.Co

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Anthropic is classed as a public-benefit company – a corporation that is set up to make a profit, but is doing so by working on something that will have a positive impact on humanity. ? Want to browse the web privately? ? As part of the latter deal, Amazon employees and cloud customers will get early access to the technology.

ChatGPT 139

ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Training Startup 139

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Having paying “Customers” is what makes the cash register roar. An entrepreneur having low self worth is the number one deterrent for a potential customer not buying into what you are selling. Using your service or owning your product isn’t why a person buys, it’s the experience your customer will have. Second, how to get leads.

Customer 85

Customer Custom Marketing SEO 85

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2013

Yelp, the company that connects consumers with great local businesses, has acquired SeatMe, a web and iPad-app based restaurant and nightlife reservation service. million in cash for SeatMe and up to approximately 263,000 shares of its Class A common stock, for a total purchase price of approximately $12.7 million by July 24th.

Class 81

Class Web Pricing Customer 81

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Your Software Development Partner. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Need office or Tech Space? Think Glendale.

Southern California 133

Southern California IP Orange County Glendale 133

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Brilliant web and iPhone app design. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Need office or Tech Space? Think Glendale.

Southern California 113

Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

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. It''s a distributed data platform built for scale, and build for accelerated application development.

Startup 198

Startup Yahoo Software Education 198

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2014

Entrepreneurs talk to customers and competitors talk to each other about the new trends and technologies they see. Evaluate customer response prior to development. Surface your prototype, get customer feedback, make corrections, and iterate until you get it right. Optimize your web history and presence.

Startup 101

Startup Search Engine Optimization Ideas Customer 101

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. And of course we had, TheMan. Watch this space.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. Although Eucalyptus is still a relatively small company from a personnel standpoint, it already counts twenty one of the Fortune 100 as it customers. The most typical use case is a scalable web service. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

Cloud Computing 212

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Platform Resource 212

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

The next major change that we see, is now that they're online, they're becoming more web based, and adding things like rich media. They got an NSF grant, and basically started up the original web site, as a video web site. One of the first major changes, is they've taken what they are doing, and moving online.

Journal 124

Journal Technical Review UCSD Web 124

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

The site started as a concept that Jeff Nobbs, my co-founder, and myself developed while we were operating a cash-back and coupon website while we were attending USC. Jeff's father is an entrepreneur, and I wanted to go down the entrepreneurial path, so we had this early concept for a cash back and coupon web site.

USC 207

USC CPC Sites Startup 207

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

This is class four for Launchpad LA. Divshot, a tool for web designers and developers, won a national pitch competition and one of it’s founders Michael Bleigh created a popular open source library now included in Ruby on Rails. We’ve been blown away by the performance of the eight companies in this class.

GRP Partners 96

GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

8:17 How did you decide to go with either shrinkwrap or web only product? 42:20 Did agile development influence you? 57: 00 How do you rectify company mission and customer demand. 57: 00 How do you rectify company mission and customer demand. 1:05:35 Middle class job of the next generation: software development!

Social Media 301

Social Media Startup Metrics Media 301

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2016

Entrepreneurs talk to customers and competitors talk to each other about the new trends and technologies they see. Evaluate customer response prior to development. Surface your prototype, get customer feedback, make corrections, and iterate until you get it right. Optimize your web history and presence.

Startup 60

Startup Search Engine Optimization Ideas Customer 60

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. They wanted to use the platform we had developed in a class called Mashup Culture. I was a development executive and independent producer. It ran in April of 2008. Our first success we kind of backed into, with the New School in New York.

Journal 187

Journal USC News Startup 187

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Entangled Media , one of the startups out of the current class at MuckerLab , has developed Younity (www.getyounity.com), a service which hopes to do just that--make your files available from anywhere. Erik Caso: Enterprises like to use things like Amazon Web Services. Can you provide some more details on how that works?

Screening 230

Screening Resource Services Mobile 230

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2015

You can start a new web site business on the Internet for as little as $100, with cheap smart phone apps, new technology innovations, or tapping the multitude of opportunities brought by capitalizing on our concern for dwindling natural resources. These will be your customers, and your competitors.

Startup 100

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Social Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2018

Today you can start a new web site business for as little as $100, produce cheap smart phone apps, or lead the effort to tap the multitude of opportunities brought by capitalizing on our concern for dwindling natural resources. This number almost doubles the number who have already moved into the middle class and urbanized.

Resource 66

Resource Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 66

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

The term a gile development is defined, and the panel agreed unanimously that maintaining this mindset is necessary. You always want perfect data on what customers are doing. The challenge is in getting clear numbers, but not often as cleanly as a basic web analytics report. Web analytics, pretty clear. For example?

Product 87

Product Fandango Design Startup 87

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Is this a mobile application, web service, or how does it work? We also have a web experience, and we host that on Amazon EC2. If you go to FileTrek.com, you can access your data via web or PC. We're also asking all of customers to think outside the box--syncing and sharing data is the easy part.

EC2 150

EC2 Los Angeles Web Anthem 150

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

Anyone who has been in sales, business development, or just works a lot with others is familiar with contact management software--tracking who you have been talking to, when, notes, and more for sales teams. They are not designed to help develop relationships. How has your long experience in the industry helped in developing this?

Google 216

Google Tool Email Sales 216

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Many entrepreneurs I know don’t realize that the language they learned in the corporate world, or even their recent MBA class, won’t get them ahead in the startup world today. Social mobile web. Responsive web technology that re-sizes text and images to fit any screen is the norm with new websites. Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Startup Web Equity 109

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Divshot's Founders conceived of their innovative web development solution, which automatically generates professional-grade code during the wire framing process, during a Startup Weekend event in Kansas City. The company posted a Show HN entry entitled, " We built a better solution for customer analysis and support.".

News 198

News Sites Startup RSS 198

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. Back to the website, describe who the demographics are of your customers? You don't need a CD, or hardware, it's completely web based. We actually wrote the business plan in a business plan class at USC.

Study 252

Study Startup Design Tips 252

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. a month for two Genies, and unlimited users or customers.

Geni 100

Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Another representative during SBF, Maker Studios is, according to their website, “the only network that provides partners a full range of vertically integrated services including development, production, promotion, distribution, sales, marketing and merchandise services.” Same with CreatorUp.

Hollywood 100

Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Leverage: with teachers not having to have in-person classes you can build a more cost-effective model and teaching can be targeted more to your individual needs. Assistly “Multi-channel customer support and management service&# – this is another industry I love and I specifically love the team at Assistly. What I like?

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

Sorenson is best known for having what is widely considered as the best in class video encoding and compression application, Sorenson Squeeze. Customers are also aware of video, not only from the entertainment side, but also from the commerce perspective. What do you think is the reason for the continued growth in video?

Media 100

Media San Diego Southern California Class 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

I originally wrote the business plan for AdventureLink out of school in 1994, for a business class I took. Their idea was to catch enough consumers to scale, but they didn't understand the cost of acquisition, of finding customers, marketing, and advertising. Kelly Tompkins: With each one of these startups, we learned a lot.

Web 100

Web Altadena Sites Activity 100

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Rather, we value entrepreneurs' time and thus our diligence generally includes introducing them to potential customers and partners. Thus, he naturally viewed Twilio's toolsets as rudimentary and easy to copy - easy for him and his world-class team of VoIP engineers, but not so easy for the average developer. com> 4/25/08.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 26, 2011

They are dedicated to providing high-availability systems, beautiful user interfaces, furious developer support and unparalleled customer care. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers! is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

Tech Coast Angels 80

Tech Coast Angels Southern California Los Angeles Santa Monica 80