socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

Spencer Price: The customer experience with e-commerce has become less and less human, as algorithms on digital platform replace human interaction. The challenge of any AI platform, is to understand that. Some of th epilots have made it far enough to have some metrics, to the point we're having conversations about integration.

Pricing 113

Pricing Startup North Hollywood Platform 113

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

It's a very flexible, open platform, and is pretty open ended. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform. Our traffic metrics have been growing, and we're now up to over 2 million monthly uniques, and 7 million monthly page views.

Startup 195

Startup Platform Sites Java 195

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

The afternoon, with Tech Wildcatters ‘ Gabriella Draney and a handful of still-stealth eCommerce ventures, solidified that the industry of commerce is in Texas. 0, eCommerce platforms: Volusion and BigCommerce (which raised $40M last year with Steve Case). Offline engagement platform EyeQ. Texas and eTail.

Technical Review 71

Technical Review Commerce Yahoo Web 71

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. The cost of social media done well is low.

Startup 61

Startup Social Media News Tool 61

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Develop a marketing strategy specific to this media. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. Define relevant metrics and measure.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Startup Social Network 106

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Develop a marketing strategy specific to this media. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. Define relevant metrics and measure.

Social Media 115

Social Media Media Startup Social Network 115

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. That allowed me to take a summer to develop the new idea, and transform it into a business. Are people really willing to sell their stuff to benefit charities?

UCLA 256

UCLA Startup Ideas Help 256

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

Famebit is the world’s first full service platform to connect brands and marketers to Youtube content creators. In seed stage funding, we’re often told that the investments are ultimately about the people/teams, and not necessarily the metrics. Shippo is changing the game for e-commerce shipping.

Startup 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Develop a marketing strategy specific to this media. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. Define relevant metrics and measure.

Social Media 104

Social Media Media Marketing Social Network 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2010

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Develop a marketing strategy specific to this media. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. Define relevant metrics and measure.

Social Media 88

Social Media Media Marketing Startup 88

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 need to research what they do, and on the development/API side, that’s something that you’ll have to go in and fix too. Instead, focus on what metric outputs, more views, more downloads?

Product 87

Product Fandango Design Startup 87

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations.

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

It is what is commonly referred to as “vanity metrics” as in, “Look at how many more followers I got us! But if you want to be able to repeat your success on your next campaign you need to know more about how you drove those clicks: Which social platform were they published on? Or Likes – LIKES!

Marketing 307

Marketing Technical Review Startup Tool 307

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Social network app developer and ad network.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217