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MAY 30, 2019

Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, Now we have a thousand large companies into it, and if you name a big company, they're a customers of ours, from Starbucks to NASA.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. However, this town is also full of very profitable, growing, and revenue generating companies-- which have for the most part been below the radar.

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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 fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). In the US alone there are 30 billion inbound sales calls every year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. The more revolutionary the solution, the more important it is to educate customers on a solution’s existence and value.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset. Thus, we click!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once. These give good customer connection and SEO. Traditional marketing is sales-focused, one-way push.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2012

That's what Braden Richter , the CEO of Los Angeles-based LuxeYard (www.luxeyard.com) is looking to do with the new startup, which combines the world of home furnishings with the concept of flash sales. But, I was intrigued by the flash sales world and the opportunity, and really felt like it was time to try something new.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2009

I don’t think it takes book smart people to build great companies – sometimes it’s a hindrance. I’m looking for the person that just “gets it.&# They know instinctually how customers buy and how to excite them. I just knew that our sales sucked wind and we were burning through tons of cash.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

According to a recent social media industry report , 92 percent said that social media is important to their businesses, and more than half report it helped them improve sales. Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

In an age where topics like Russian hacking, CIA hacking tools and the stability of the power grid and industrial networks has suddenly become important, there are only a few companies tackling industrial network security directly. Paul Myer: Veracity Industrial Networks is a startup in the industrial network security segment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing. According to a Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media at all, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. These give good customer connection and SEO.

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JULY 24, 2009

Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Westlake Village.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing. According to a Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media at all, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. These give good customer connection and SEO.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Putting customers first. Legendary customer support. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. You could just outspend. There is a much better technique. Innovative.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com) is looking to sort through that data to help marketers better tap into location based, social networking. It combines all of the approaches, from a market point of view, that companies like Starbucks, McDonald's, or Walmart would be interested in. How did the company come about?

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2015

We spoke with CEO and founder--and longtime startup veteran-- Richard Wolpert about the company. If you are having trouble with your wireless network, or your printer, or moving photos from your iPhone to your PC, we're there to help you with any problems like that. How does HelloTech work? Richard Wolpert: It's essentially two things.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. I quietly watched their success from the sidelines and kept spending time with and telling the CEO, Scott Lahman, that I wanted to invest in his next company.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

Such playground friends serve to ensure the startup’s ongoing viability by providing resources, access to customers and technology and market validation. At Computer Motion, we created two alliances, comprised of a dozen companies with an aggregate market capitalization in excess of $28B.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

We spoke with Dave Fink , CEO and co-founder of Posite, and Jonathan Neddenriep , co-founder and CTO of the company, to learn more. We've taken all of the logistics and headache out of defining a campaign for our customers. Companies are looking at diminishing returns, and were finding it more challenging to scale on Facebook.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

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. We index towards those categories, and we do really well. When did the split with AT&T happen?

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

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. We index towards those categories, and we do really well. When did the split with AT&T happen?

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

We caught up with EcoMom CEO Jody Sherman , to learn more about the company. Our customers tend to be mostly moms, but also some dads who support their families, uncles, aunts, and their friends, but primarily moms. Last week, Los Angeles-based EcoMom (www.ecomom.com) launched its "green" parenting site, with backing from Dave McClure.

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Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

…” I’ll write soon on my views of why I believe Instagram took off as a social network and what I think comes next. Instagram happens to be one of the few social networks I regularly use along with Twitter. Let’s say your company is currently valued at $15 million. Was this a good thing? Christin goes on.

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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.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Seth attended UCSB but dropped out to start a denim company. . We have built SocialStay for scale so I think the ‘chasm’ is both a function of time and sales. Without their buy in, we don’t get the opportunity to interact with end customers. Yeah, I have made plenty of mistakes in this category in the past.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2009

The social networking and sharing will get richer. The parent company of LetSimonDecide is a market research company. We are currently working with a couple of Fortune 500 companies, doing customized versions of this for market research. We're also funded by the research work of our parent company.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

We caught up with Eric Hovanec, the firm's CEO, and Steve Reich, the firm's SVP of Sales, to hear more about the funding. We help them distribute their product, and put it on the shelf, anywhere a customer might buy--whether that's with a tour operator, travel agency, or a travel website.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. Company founders, led by Ravishanker, made the strategic choice early on to bypass venture capital.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

Scott Saunders, the CEO and co-founder, of the company is hoping to change that, by providing tools to consumers to help pay off their debt and achieve their life goals. To do that, the firm has combined the world of social networking and personal finance with its newly launched service. 500 company. How are you doing that?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Early-stage ideas fall in the same category. In other words, inventions are necessary but not sufficient to create real value for investors and customers. The value is tied to infrastructure outside your control, such as a pervasive network of fuel stations, trained service facilities, and new government regulations.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). Thank you @eminutes. . Matthew Clough – Founder of Benson Backpacks.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x forward sales with some as high as 12x sales. Below is a graph of the NASDAQ the US public barometer of technology companies. But of course public markets had begun gyrating.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Early-stage ideas fall in the same category. In other words, inventions are necessary but not sufficient to create real value for investors and customers. The value is tied to infrastructure outside your control, such as a pervasive network of fuel stations, trained service facilities, and new government regulations.

Technical Review 86

Technical Review Patents Ideas Journal 86

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2014

Early-stage ideas fall in the same category. In other words, inventions are necessary but not sufficient to create real value for investors and customers. The value is tied to infrastructure outside your control, such as a pervasive network of fuel stations, trained service facilities and new government regulations.

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Ideas Technical Review Patents Entrepreneur 106

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2016

Early-stage ideas fall in the same category. In other words, inventions are necessary but not sufficient to create real value for investors and customers. The value is tied to infrastructure outside your control, such as a pervasive network of fuel stations, trained service facilities, and new government regulations.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Patents Ideas Journal 60

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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