socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Los Angeles-based online coupon site Savings.com has made a major expansion today, into the grocery coupon and shopping market. According to the company, it has launched a new app called Favado , which provides grocery coupon information, sales information, and printable grocery coupons to consumers.

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Sales Commerce Demand Marketing 167

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2011

San Diego-based VMIX , the developer of online video management and hosting services, reported today that it has launched a new product aimed at helping its customers rent videos on the Facebook social networking site. Pricing on the new offering was not announced. READ MORE>>.

Product 154

Product San Diego Social Network Demand 154

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and social media interactions, access to peer reviews, as well as the actual services experience. Relationships are a function of customer culture.

Social Media 98

Social Media Technical Review Media Services 98

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Source: hibobbie.com The company also raised an impressive $70 million in funding in June to acquire the legacy pediatric nutrition brand Nature’s One, bringing its total kitty up to $142 million and helping to secure its competitive advantage in the industry going forward. million site visits in October alone. Gumroad homepage.

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Startup Generative AI Newsletter Tool 210

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. Steve Banfield: What will become Rightside has been part of Demand Media.

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Demand HTML Web Media 231

Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

But SoCal’s growing companies contend with their own set of challenges, including the increasing importance of scalable network solutions. Companies can no longer rely on standard network solutions, they need scalable infrastructure and business internet service that can meet rapidly escalating needs. trillion. ¹.

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Southern California Services Demand SoCal 60

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

Los Angeles-based SaveFans (www.savefans.com) recently raised some funding for its take on secondary ticketing, so we thought we'd speak with founder Wes Brodsky about the company and where it's going. We are an offer-based platform that allows users to negotiate the price they buy and sell tickets for, on the secondary market.

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Ticketmaster Pricing Sales Activity 253

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

We caught up with founder John Delacruz to hear more about what the company hopes to do as it expands beyond Pasadena. We let restaurants set pricing based on demand, and then if you're hungry looking for a place to eat, we match you up with a restaurant offering a great deal. How far along is the company?

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Idealab Pasadena Pasadena Angels Demand 217

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Amazon previously operated a service called Amazon Webstore which was “a complete commerce platform” that enabled “companies to leverage Amazon technology and expertise in building and managing their direct-to-consumer business.” But Amazon faces a serious problem: Consumer demand is changing.

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News Acquisition Platform Sales 136

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Are you tired of booking that "luxury room" on your favorite vacation rental site, and finding it''s really a dump? The company has created a marketplace which focuses on "anti-luxury" vacation rentals--many of which can be called rather "unique". How did you start the company? Who is your typical customer?

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Sites Startup Customer Custom 213

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and social media interactions, access to peer reviews, as well as the actual services experience. Relationships are a function of customer culture.

Services 128

Services Social Media Technical Review Media 128

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The idea was that if you could put up a consumer site that was seen as the best place to consume content then people wouldn’t go to lower-quality or free sites to get it. The founders felt that having a legitimate site for content would discourage Silicon Valley VC’s from funding entrepreneurs to create the next big TV killer.

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Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Ongoing momentum requires a move to mainstream, or even late adopters, who demand simplicity in your base function. Most ecommerce sites highlight this feature. The company has since gone public, and is still a market leader. Select a single dimension to measure momentum. Plan a long-term strategy, and avoid crisis moves.

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Technical Review Technical Advisors Startup Mentor 160

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Apparently with a physical storefront where it can convince customers of the wonders of on-demand mobility. Given the company is calling this a lifestyle store, the focus will likely be on showing how Lime’s scooters and bikes can become part of people’s lives and enhance their happiness, rather than on maximizing rental volume.

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Santa Monica Startup Technical Review Education 221

Tech.Co

MAY 11, 2022

Subscribe As the demand for speedy delivery continues to surge, Amazon has struggled to keep its next-day delivery commitment in these rural states because of their sparse populations. Now as the national postal service is encountering its own financial and operational hardships, the e-commerce company is appearing to try a different tact.

Commerce 103

Commerce Newsletter Report Demand 103

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price.

Platform 118

Platform Snapchat Startup Course 118

Berkonomics

AUGUST 30, 2018

In 1986, while in the hotel technology business, I observed the back-room success of American Airlines with their new Sabre subsidiary and its creation of a “yield management” system to use massive data to project demand for an airline seat on an individual flight segment days and months into the future. Our test sites.

Artificial Inteligence 120

Artificial Inteligence Pricing Design Product 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

In the short term you need customers to find you at any price, and in the longer term you need revenue, profit, and return loyalty. Even a million users on your social media site won’t pay the bills until you sell some advertising or a premium service. Cote, former Chairman and CEO of Honeywell.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Layoffs Social Media Metrics 124

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). BuildOnline (the company I founded) has just announcement plans to be more aggressive in growing in the US. Let me not bury the lede.

CTO Coach 359

CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

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. I see many companies that don’t make this transition well.

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Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

The reasons companies elect to sell exclusively offline differ, but they often center on managing channel conflict with their retail partners. In addition to the Z Supply brand, which offers comfortable fashion basics, the company has created Black Swan , Others Follow , Rag Poets and White Crow. John Knits.

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Sites Sales Santa Barbara Design 100

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2012

Few people in the technology world are unfamiliar with the huge rise in the popularity of the photo sharing service Instagram, which was topped off by a $1 billion acquisition of that company by Facebook just a few weeks ago. We ended up selling that startup in 2003, and I went to work for the company I sold it to.

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Startup Pricing Sites Acquisition 153

socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Atif Siddiqi: We've created a student centric marketplace, that allows businesses, working professionals, and alumni to hire student workers on demand. Obviously, students can provide skilled labor at good prices. You provide payment when the mission is complete, and the payment is handled through the site. What is Ninjathat?

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Startup Design Demand USC 219

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

Last week, we talked with Fouad ElNaggar of Redpoint Ventures about some of the interesting companies in Southern California. One of those he mentioned was Hark (www.hark.com), an online site which allows users to find and share sound bites and audio clips from movies and elsewhere. How is the company funded and backed?

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Redpoint Startup Content .Net 201

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. Look at Viddy & SocialCast. But it wasn’t to be.

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

For this morning's interview, we sat down and talked with Nick Desai , CEO of Global Fitness Media , which runs FitOrbit (www.fitorbit.com), an online site looking to help users put together a fitness and connect with fitness trainers. For those who haven't visited your site, what is FitOrbit? Thanks for talking with us.

Media 168

Media Pricing Sites Training 168

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys. We've got a suite of on-demand, manufacturing tools which means they never have to spend money upfront. There's a convergence between the paradigm of the music business, and the business of social media.

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Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

He made an investment into the company, which ended up being a great move on his part, because his stake in the company is huge, and that's how we started. The demand is there. We could have raised more, but apparently, we crashed SeedInvest's entire site on the last day of the campaign. We have big plans fro Flippy.

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Startup Venture Capital Capital Customer 113

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2011

I was founder and CEO of one of the world's fastest growing software companies, PacketVideo, which created the software which is on billions of cell phones now. Anecdotally, having built one of the fastest growing companies in the world, this is taking off just as fast. it's every bit as demanding at DonateGames.

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Pricing Help Startup Sites 183

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

We’ve simplified our pricing, and API partners are now utilizing our technology in unique ways to fulfill a growing demand for entertainment imagery.”. Born is most notable for his work in founding sister-site, Audio Micro , an online repository for royalty free music and sound effects.

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Press Entertainment Pricing Blogging 69

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He calls it his “Tom Sawyer&# company. Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. a fbFund winner. Current round: $4.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2013

There''s no continual upsell like you might encounter on other floral sites. What was it that you were doing which attracted investors to your company? The way we represent our product, how we merchandise it, and how we price it, and our UX is really targeted towards the younger clientele. Closing this $1.1M

Services 215

Services Technical Review Startup Pricing 215

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

It’s the company that evokes fear into more startups and venture capitalists looking to fund eCommerce businesses than any other potential competitor. He would pick up stuff from your apartment and bring it to storage for you and he could save money by having that facility be off site. And could we then compete?”

Technical Review 380

Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire Startup 380

InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2015

Unfortunately, many of these companies fail to properly monetize such non-paying users. Anyone, including well-healed, large companies, could offer state-of-the-art technical support for free. This is a risky, as many of your users will be initially introduced to your company via your free offering. Let''s face it.

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Technical Support Customer Custom Demand 100

Berkonomics

AUGUST 18, 2011

In 1986, while in the hotel technology business, I observed the back-room success of American Airlines with their new Sabre subsidiary and its creation of a “yield management” system to use massive data to project demand for an airline seat on a particular flight segment days and months into the future.

Artificial Inteligence 214

Artificial Inteligence Pricing Design Product 214