socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Los Angeles-based CapLinked , the developer of an online platform for managing fundraising and investors, said this morning that it has launched a new pitch competition. The firm said that judges for the competition come form Idealab, Rincon, Rapidfire, and Actarus, including Idealab's Alex Maleki and Rincon's Jim Andelman.

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Competition Idealab Press Platform 157

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2012

I have seen some entrepreneurs go into first meetings willing to share almost anything about their company. So I have taken to recommending to some of my portfolio companies a small addition to my statement above to say, very casually. ” But very few companies can get away with this. Follow Up Engagement.

Technical Review 316

Technical Review Venture Capital Customer Custom 316

socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2013

It looks like competition is heating up in the smart parking market--and for local parking technology firm Parkme , which is based in Santa Monica--as yet another company announced Thursday more funding for giving consumers real-time information about available parking spaces.

Competition 187

Competition Santa Monica Funding Marketing 187

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 17, 2012

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 -- Competitive Intelligence: 007 Market Intel. The company president calls you into his office after attending a brainstorm session. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to estimate market size, competitive market share, how many potential customers are there, and price points. PDMA SoCal.

Competition 100

Competition Innocal Case Study SoCal 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2012

What's the best way to share competitive intelligence and company announcements with your employees? Flud firm said its tool is aimed at bringing private news and intelligence sharing to businesses, letting co-workers share news articles and other information within an organization. and Europe for the enterprise product.

News 150

News Company Companies San Diego 150

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

From apps to hardware, to KickStarter successes and international startups, we’re inching closer to finding out who will take home the title of Startup of the Year competition at our annual Celebrate Conference in October. Among the dozens of participants that applied for the online competitions, only a few progressed into the semifinals.

Competition 123

Competition Mobile Startup Technical Review 123

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

Facebook has created an environment where millions of people can hold billions of conversations with people and companies, transforming how people expect to interact with each other and the world. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. Online gaming has moved from the geeks to the mainstream.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 99

Berkonomics

JUNE 2, 2022

Do you have any contacts or friends within the target company? Dropping that name will often immediately draw a response if the decision maker is curious or particularly competitive. Let me reinforce this: never reveal competitive information to gain access or advantage. Here’s an even better way.

Ideas 156

Ideas Sales Competition Venture Capital 156

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2023

If your customers would benefit by having products from both companies, you might negotiate the opportunity to include the other’s product as an add-on. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive.

Startup 105

Startup Outsource Competition Entrepreneur 105

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. I am an investor and advisor to one such “eyeballs” company. Microsoft paid $9.00 per registered user for Hotmail. AOL paid $40.00

Metrics 296

Metrics Sites Advertising Web 296

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone. The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future.

Competition 60

Competition IBM IBM Startup 60

SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 20, 2018

We dive into the crucial process of gathering and analyzing information about markets, industries, and products in their competitive spaces. This, in turn, can generate significant growth for companies and brands who seek to stay on top of competition and in demand. American Marketing Association (AMA).

Research 100

Research Marketing AMA Competition 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Tech Coast Venture Network is rounding up the finest entrepreneurs to compete for $25,000 in cash prize in their Survivor 7 Pitch Competition this Thursday, November 15th. The event will be held in Chapman University and has attracted over 30 companies that have submitted their pitch videos online.

Competition 65

Competition Networking TCVN Southern California 65

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Photo by Vanna Phon on Unsplash Customer acquisition is the lifeblood of many startups from e-commerce to gaming to marketplace companies, among others. For these companies, it looks like a rosy picture. no surprise?—?that’s that’s where the customers are. But if you ask anyone in the ecosystem of customer acquisition?—?founders,

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Product Platform Advertising Acquisition 424

socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Camarillo-based analog and mixed signal semiconductor developer Semtech has sued three former Semtech employees, as well as company Spark Connected , claiming that the three breached a non-competition agreement and misappropriated trade secrets from the company.

Competition 113

Competition Marketing Develop Development 113

Berkonomics

JUNE 16, 2022

For many early-stage companies with outside investors, the goal is to ultimately sell the company or even go public, always at a significant increase in valuation over time. And that’s not as easy as “simply” selling the company or achieving a financial goal over time. What is your leadership end game goal?

Resource 156

Resource Satisfaction Metrics Course 156

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2010

Yet, in today’s world of information overload and global reach, marketing and selling skills are critical to the success of every startup. In my own effort to keep up with the times, I just finished a new book by Landy Chase, titled “ Competitive Selling: Out-Plan, Out-Think, Out-Sell to Win Every Time.” Then sell to these points.

Competition 92

Competition Entrepreneur Startup Customer 92

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Investment bankers sometimes slow the process by requiring a cloud-based “data room” and “deal book” to be prepared containing considerable information about a company to help a buyer. Competition opens the deal to more public access, slows the deal and could give competitors wind of an otherwise confidential process.

Invest 156

Invest Competition Pricing Guide 156

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

I know all of this because every VC knows this because we’ve all either funded companies that have marketing technology or we’ve seen a pitch with a company that does this. Your deck should be so good that a VC asks you for permission to show it to his or her portfolio companies. What should not be in your deck? Just send it.

Funding 239

Funding Venture Capital IP Email 239

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

On a micro level, you can do your part to fix tech's gender problem by recruiting people with diverse backgrounds and place them in a company culture that rewards those who challenge the status quo. One of these bright lights is Santa Barbara-based HG Data - developers of the world's largest competitive-intelligence database. <Note:

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Company Companies Santa Barbara Education 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Unfortunately, in mature companies, a larger and larger percentage of employees forget company survival and customers as the objectives, and focus only on their own personal gain. People in larger organizations move away from day-to-day contact with the end customer, and focus becomes company internal and isolated.

Satisfaction 147

Satisfaction Organization Customer Custom 147

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2022

A related “red flag” in a business plan is a missing competitive analysis section, or a short paragraph that essentially says, “this product has no competition.” My reaction is, if there is no competition, then there is no market demand for your product, so why are you building it? This is the traditional realm of computers.

Ideas 145

Ideas Startup Tips Competition 145

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2020

If your customers would benefit by having products from both companies, you might negotiate the opportunity to include the other’s product as an add-on. The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive.

Startup 126

Startup Outsource Competition Acquisition 126

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Competitors have a field day when hearing about cash problems at a company; and the rumors they pass on can reverberate for months or longer after the problem is solved. Fourth is competitive risk. This falls squarely on management to perform, to take the company to and beyond profitability. This consists of two separate risks.

Competition 156

Competition Marketing Class Product 156

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2023

Soon you won’t be able to name a business as one of your favorites if you can’t personally visualize and relate to company leadership. In the same way, great entrepreneurs and company leaders should no longer rely on faceless and nameless processes to drive business strategy and innovation to stay competitive.

Customer 140

Customer Custom Social Media Metrics 140

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2023

They need to ask customers the difficult questions, and really understand costs versus benefits, as well as competitive alternatives. Whereas providers used to control information, the Internet has given customers access to more information and more choices than ever. Opening relationships and creating opportunities.

Startup 154

Startup Sales Entrepreneur Customer 154

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2021

Everyone today is looking for a knock-your-socks-off customer experience, and they know the best companies out there are already doing it. With every business being global in scope and always-on, a phone-in service available in a local time zone during work hours only, is not competitive. Company finds customers based on interests.

Customer 171

Customer Custom Social Media Design 171

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone. The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future.

IBM 131

IBM IBM Startup Examples 131

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

I see that model changing today to one of team collaboration and decision making, per companies such as Amazon, Google, and Zoom. Modern companies like Amazon credit much of their growth and success to rewarding of change innovations, including failures. Discourage internal team competition and silos.

Organization 105

Organization Mentor Startup Training 105

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing.

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

Berkonomics

JUNE 3, 2021

In this age of readily available information, the risk involved in making a statement that can later be proved untrue is too great. The company in mind provides systems to serve both, but its salespeople count as customers all the indirect customers served by the one system sold to oversee them. Ah, but then there is the Internet.

Customer 156

Customer Custom Examples Email 156

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? We spoke with Ali Khoshgozaran , founder and CEO of the company, to learn more about the startup. What is Tilofy about? How did Tilofy come about?

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USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I’m convinced that you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers, and today’s employees. Foster a culture of constant dialog with customers, experimentation, and multiple pivots required to stay competitive and responsive. Promote the honest sharing of information – good or bad. Marty Zwilling.

Competition 116

Competition Organization Customer Custom 116

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Using big data that has been mined for specific information, we can now market to individuals within classes, some of whom will not fit the stereotype and would have been missed with more generalized efforts. She visits your site for information but does not buy and doesn’t leave an email address for information.

Marketing 120

Marketing IP Email Class 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Creating the right company culture must be a top priority of every entrepreneur and business leader. You need to paint a compelling future for your company that they can all connect with. Simply speaking, culture-driven businesses put their people first, and people make the business, rather than the other way around. Marty Zwilling.

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Company Companies Organization Startup 59

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2011

San Diego-based Qualcomm is putting its money behind one of the winners of its second annual QPrize Venture Investment Competition, New York-based Enterproid , Enterproid revealed Thursday.

San Diego 159

San Diego Competition Google Mobile 159

socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2013

The company said it has an "extensive database" of SBIR awards and participants, which can be used to find background information on grant applicants.

Research 166

Research Tool Writing Competition 166