Xconomy

JANUARY 31, 2018

In another setback for Google’s Internet business, the tech giant has decided to wind down the Boston-area operations of Webpass, a wireless Internet service provider Google Fiber acquired in June 2016. Webpass’s service—which provides high-speed Internet access to homes.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

San Diego-based Kyocera Wireless has sold its Indian subsidiary, Kyocera Wireless (India) Pvt. employs approximately 600, who provide wireless product development, software engineering, and product testing for Kyocera Wireless, and also develops custom handsets for Indian service providers. to IT firm MindTree Ltd.,

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Dmitri Leonov: We built a distribution business for equipment for the spa industry, and have had 10,000 client over that time, but in the last few years, we've really focused on talking to spa customers about their needs in the market. Essentially, the customer wants natural and organic ingredients.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity (www.daasity.com)  which just raised $2.3M The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms. That makes it difficult to figure out what it costs to acquire a customer, and what a customer is worth.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. These large mobile carriers have audiences, but something they dont have content services to attract and retain subscribers to a mobile network.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

to San Diego. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. pushing CEOs and business owners to innovate to outperform the competition. We put the "Service" back into Internet Service Provider. socalTECH.com offers up continuous coverage of Southern California's growing high. Think Glendale.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

Google Fiber plans to acquire Webpass in a deal that trims the ranks of independent Internet service providers—an industry already maligned for its lack of competition—but ultimately could boost consumer access to high-speed Internet. Six-year-old Google Fiber has had its own set of challenges.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

However, there is still room for competition. Companies must learn to become ecosystem drivers – even if only for a subset of their customers – in order to survive. A distinguishing feature of this model is that they are the destination in their space for a subset of their customers. – Ensure great customer experience.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2011

With the proliferation of social networks, communications clients and VoIP phone services, users often find they need to use multiple ways--Twitter, Facebook, phone, FAX, and more--to communicate with their contacts. To try to understand the service's strategy, we spoke with Bryan Hertz,CEO of Telcentris, the parent firm of VoxOx.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2015

Bryson Strauss: We are an on-demand delivery service. We're here to do everything you ranging from meal delivery for hundreds of restaurants, as a courier service, to pick up that credit card you accidentally left at the bar last night, to pick up extra diapers--you can call us for any of that. How does Schlep and Fetch work?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Mobile gifting service. Provides electronic book services for content publishers; services include digital scanning and conversion, distribution to leading e-book retailers, monetization and royalty management. LibreDigital.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

To fix that, San Diego-based Kazuhm (www.kazuhm.com) has created software, which uses the same kinds of distributed computing techniques made popular in the consumer world by community projects like SETI, and applied that to the enterprise. Years of my career have been driving efforts like that.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Jonathan Simkin: One of the things I did after graudating, is I joined CONNECT, which is like the entrepreneurial center and hub in San Diego, which is run in conjunction with UCSD and other schools here. Back to the service itself-- you've got lots of competition in the space, how are you going to get above that noise?

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. It''s built and deployed as a service in the cloud, with nothing to install.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A cybersecurity report by Ponemon Institute, in association with Keeper Security, found that in the 12 months leading up to June 2016, 55 percent of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) experienced a cyber attack, while 50 percent encountered data breaches involving customer and employee information.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

It’s an interesting tactic that seems unusual in a competitive business environment, but makes sense when considering the constantly expanding sea of cyber threats—and solutions—through which organizations must wade. Cyber industry alliances, the thinking goes, could make customers’ cyber defenses stronger and easier to manage.

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Xconomy

JULY 12, 2016

The emerging global market for business services using drones is estimated at more than $127 billion , according to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Despite this economic potential, we are concerned that a patchwork of conflicting and confusing state and local regulations could hinder growth and investment in drones and related services.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Using that, and a partnership model where we go into schools and partner with them to provide SAT and ACT service, we've been able to build up a private tutoring service from basically nothing. Some of the biggest school districts, including LA Unified, San Diego, and Oakland all use our software. That's a big part of it.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. I thought, what would I do if I was trying to sell to a customer. Page 3: Competition. Free product. Page 4: Business Model.

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Xconomy

JUNE 15, 2016

Having a board helps you keep your eye consistently on the strategic aspects of your business which, in turn, helps you attract investors and customers. However, even in a small startup, there are many risks that matter – such as hiring the wrong leaders, not getting sufficient investor support, or lacking a competitive advantage.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

San Diego-based Intercasting (www.intercasting.com) is one of the companies which seems to have gotten some traction, and has deployed with Boost, Virgin, Sprint, and is in the process of deploying with Verizon and ATT. The second customer is the social networking sites. For our customers, that wouldn't work.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. A great leader knows customers and has direct relationships with them. He seemed to never care about fans (customers) who also were happy to let the door hit his butt on the way out. The reality of most startups is about survival.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. Jason Howe: What we do at Awarepoint is, at the 10,000 foot level, is RTLS - Real Time Location Services. Who are the typical customers for your products? Congrats on funding.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. MW: We like to think ourselves as a layer above all the other services that you may use that have a report. MW: We love the customers in LA.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

The first of question is about qualifying your potential customers aka leads. Assume competition and assume within the buying organization you have enemies. One thing I observed was that many customers wanted an “on premise” version of our software and were willing to pay extra money for it. Why Buy Anything ?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. If you hit a groove on funding and customer growth it does become a challenge to ramp quickly. In New York you have access to fashion, media, art and of course, financial services. Hit some bumps in the road?

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