TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The company used its overdraft protection service and money management display to shift customers’ focus away from the total balance that their account would show by giving them a sense of how much was actually left in their accounts once debits were included in their statements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2020

By default, innovation in every business decreases over time, and continuous innovation requires ongoing initiatives and measures of customer perceived value. Recognize that customers care about the whole experience. Today they demand it or walk to competitors, who are not far away.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2023

These leaders not only recognize team members who have high potential, but they willingly and selflessly customize their coaching to what these special protégés really need. Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness. Encourage employees to move on to new opportunities. Adapt the job or organization to fit the talent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2020

These leaders not only recognize team members who have high potential, but they willingly and selflessly customize their coaching to what these special protégés really need. Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness. Encourage employees to move on to new opportunities. Adapt the job or organization to fit the talent.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. pushing CEOs and business owners to innovate to outperform the competition. Funding great entrepreneurs.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We spoke with one of those companies-- El Segundo-based ConsumerTrack (www.consumertrack.com)--which is a $30M, bootstrapped an online marketing company which is driving millions of customers to big name, financial customers. We''re able to track everything we''re doing, and report back on it. What is ConsumerTrack all about?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). Need office or Tech Space?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 5, 2015

A recurring entrepreneurial challenge is to determine the optimal price of a new product, especially absent a directly competitive alternative. When we launched GoToAssist, we offered our customers the option to brand the customer-facing webpages with their logo and brand colors. customers paid $119.40 Price = Value.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Full Tables, Happy Customers. Last week Wednesday Groupon world’s largest daily deal company launched its own payment system dubbed Groupon Payments , adding competition to the field Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and Square were already competing for market share. Groupon said it launched the system due to customer demands. “In

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Software Review Email Competition Acquisition 64

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

How could Bird really be worth the reported $2 billion valuation that I read about in this press? While this reaction to such a valuation is understandable, to anybody who has seen the meteoric rise in consumer demand and actual revenue the valuation is much less surprising and may turn out to be quite conservative.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData). Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. FTC is considering an investigation into Apple’s anti-competitive practices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2016

These leaders not only recognize team members who have high potential, but they willingly and selflessly customize their coaching to what these special protégés really need. Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness. Encourage employees to move on to new opportunities. Adapt the job or organization to fit the talent.

Oracle 53

Oracle Organization Entrepreneur Examples 53

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Originally, you had a lot of government customers, and were just starting out with a few commercial customers. Our strategy was twofold--one, was to go out and get brand name customers, and to translate their content to such a high quality, with no human oversight, that they'd be willing to post that on the internet.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2016

What’s more, strategic locations can benefit from varying global legislation: influencing competitor clauses, user privacy data collection, and tax laws amongst other factors that can give a company a powerful competitive edge. There are so many startups, and a great demand for talent as a result of this. We work with U.S.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

I believe that the advertisers they started with were probably disappointed that the cost per customer acquisition was not the same as search. I think that's too bad, actually, because what search does is capture demand very specifically for your product--but broadcast will generate demand for advertisers. Radio does work.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The software helps them manage all of that, so that they can target campaigns, optimize ads, and report out in different ways. We manage that competition through an aucton process. Our customer footprint, as I mentioned, is huge. How is the competitive landscape is nowadays? When we started, our revenues were zero.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

For people who are serious about losing weight and improving their fitness, the way to do that it to use a dedicated expert--a trainer, a meal planner, or dietician, who can work with you on a daily basis and create a custom plan. The trainer makes you a daily, customized meal plan and exercise and activity plan.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 22, 2008

Across the globe, politicians are concerned about high security, accuracy and privacy demands. The AeA just released its third Competitiveness Series report endorsing eHealth, arguing that it will lower costs and enhance the safety, reliability, convenience, and delivery of healthcare. We’ve already seen how Web 2.0

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Because its just not that hyper-competitive, Im-hiring-all-your-staff, because-Im-Google environment. Report Content February 27, 2010 at 11:05am by Antone Johnson Great interview. Customer Service Workshop Fast Company joins the customer service revolution across the US. is equally convenient as in Silicon Valley.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. Put yourself in the shoes of your customers or users. Answering only one or two of these questions won’t work. > I need to send marketing, e-commerce or e-statements emails to my customers to drive revenue or reduce costs. ► March (1) Office 2.0:

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. Find a Simple Way to Tell a Complex Story (and ano. ► March (1) Office 2.0:

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Like startup investors several layers deep, parent company executives often demand approval rights and exert their power, without understanding the issues of starting a new business. In enterprises, performance objectives are usually tied to internal processes, rather than beating competitors, customer acquisition, and revenue growth.

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IBM IBM Entrepreneur Technical Review 85

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

That, plus I love the space of high-customer-service, focused eCommerce for moms worried about what their kids eat & wear.&#. Still, my wife had seen a report that almost all sun blocks for kids had a chemical known to be dangerous to kids. It could be a bubble or better balance of supply and demand. I argue the opposite.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

(there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million).

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