Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2012

According to the founders, Contur is a virtual assistant that sorts and organizes your emails automatically. The founders add that Contur takes all of your emails, groups the related ones together so that you can see your emails in context. You may get emails related to our apartments at random intervals in your inbox.

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Email CTO Hire Startup Organization 63

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Unlike a lot of grants on this list, the competition is open to all US small businesses, as long as they have fewer than 99 employees, have been operating for at least six months, and have a FedEx business account that's been open before September 1, 2023. It's competitive though – last year 18,000 applicants competed for only 12 slots.

Technical Review 193

Technical Review Software Review Startup Competition 193

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Management undertakes a simple exercise of calculating the increased profitability of shutting down all R&D, sales and subordinate operations, and universally notes with shock the high net profit that results – from shutting down all operations except customer service to recurring customers (as in software support operations.).

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 8, 2020

It is most often missed assumptions about the market, the competition, the speed of adoption, or other critical metrics you’ve researched, or selected, or even just guessed at to create your plan. Email readers, continue here…] It’s easy to find someone to quote a size of market estimate. Or cost estimation.

Company 156

Company Companies Metrics Resource 156

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Sign up to Tech.co's weekly newsletter today Please fill in your name Please fill in your email Subscribe By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Privacy Policy. Verifying Looking for regular tech news straight to your inbox? You can unsubscribe at any time. Brightwheel’s successes aren’t going on unnoticed, either.

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Startup Generative AI Newsletter Tool 210

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Studies of software teams, for example, show differences as great as ten to one in productivity between working team members. Unproductive procrastination is wasting time and effort, pretending to be busy, organizing your desk, checking email, surfing the internet, or taking another break. Reduce procrastination.

Activity 99

Activity Study Product Email 99

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Studies of software teams, for example, show differences as great as ten to one in productivity between working team members. Unproductive procrastination is wasting time and effort, pretending to be busy, organizing your desk, checking email, surfing the internet, or taking another break. Reduce procrastination.

Product 173

Product Activity Study Email 173

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 5, 2013

It is most often missed assumptions about the market, the competition, the speed of adoption, or other critical metrics you’ve researched, or selected, or even just guessed at to create your plan. Email readers, continue here.] The biggest error in planning may not be spreadsheet calculation error. Or cost estimation.

Metrics 239

Metrics Startup Marketing Demand 239

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2023

Email marketing. Plus lead-generation strategies can be updated by the flood of new technologies and software, including use of near-field and Bluetooth communications, QR codes, social check-in promotions, mobile search, mobile web, text, SMS, MMS and geolocation.

Marketing 114

Marketing Invest Social Media SEM 114

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 18, 2019

Along the way, we found ourselves constantly surprised by unanticipated applications that suddenly appeared and gained huge adoption across the Internet; this was the case with email, the World Wide Web, peer-to-peer file sharing, user generated content, Napster, YouTube, Instagram, social networking, etc.

UCLA 253

UCLA Social Media Social Network Santa Barbara 253

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital: we can look at every company we’ve ever funded, and learned that the time from first email/contact to term sheet has shrunk from 90 days in 2004 to just 9 today. — Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 29, 2020. Mamoon Hamid is heading from Social Capital to Kleiner Perkins.

IBM 164

IBM IBM Venture Capital Invest 164

socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Constantine is CEO of Ulevate, and Dmitri is an advisor, and also is known as the co-founder of email management and filtering software developer SaneBox. This seems very different from your background on software, how did you get into this? Our cost is very low, which allows us a key, competitive advantage.

Template 124

Template Beverly Hills Startup SEM 124

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. Our software just has to be on a user's device, and we have lots of ways to get there.

San Diego 159

San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Email marketing. Plus lead-generation strategies can be updated by the flood of new technologies and software, including use of near-field and Bluetooth communications, QR codes, social check-in promotions, mobile search, mobile web, text, SMS, MMS and geolocation.

Customer 146

Customer Custom Marketing Startup 146

Berkonomics

AUGUST 9, 2018

By defining this in terms of gross profit, we can include distributors with 15% gross margins as easily as software companies boasting nearly 100% gross margin. Email readers, continue here…] But at or around the 20-employee mark, the founders usually find that two things occur. Explaining the rotating series of crises.

Startup 120

Startup Customer Custom Funding 120

SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

Death By Competitive Analysis - Steve Blank , March 1, 2010 Trading emails with a startup CEO building an iPhone app, I asked him why potential customers would buy his product. In response he sent me a competitive analysis. It looked like every competitive analysis I had done for 20 years, (ok maybe better.)

Startup 150

Startup Software Review Competition SoCal 150

Berkonomics

JULY 30, 2011

By defining this in terms of gross profit, we can therefore include distributors with 15% gross margins as easily as software companies boasting nearly 100% gross margin. These became so predictable that I could accurately label them as occurring about every $3 million in gross profit (or revenue for service companies).

Startup 222

Startup Customer Custom Funding 222

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2011

By Bob La Loggia, CEO StormSource Software Business is often compared to war and waging battle with enemies. In today’s competitive business environment, where barriers to entry seem to be crumbling before our eyes, creating your citadel is more important than ever. Your citadel is your protection from the competition.

Startup 95

Startup Competition Guide Software 95

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Sergey’s diverse experience as an entrepreneur, technology consultant and software executive qualifies him to lead amSTATZ’s technology development. For the fitness professional: A simple software solution that streamlines their business operations and keeps clients engaged. Any competition in LA? What problem do you solve?

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

Ben Satterfield is the co-founder of TestFlight, an immensely popular piece of software for iOS (and now Android) which lets developers distribute beta copies of their apps to their users. You can load software over the air, just like the app store. The way we go about that is different than the competition. It just made sense.

Startup 262

Startup Mobile Outsource Development Tool 262

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The team subsequently earned a coveted position in Launchpad LA's current accelerator class after winning the Crowdstart LA competition. Such feedback is especially constructive when you have something physical that users can interact with, such as beta software, a working website, etc. Share and Enjoy.

News 198

News Sites Startup RSS 198

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

Are people giving you feature requests, complaining about your service or comparing you to the competition? Capture the data – the currency of online direct marketing prior to Twitter was the email address. Are they recommending you to friends or telling people how badly you suck?

Social Network 235

Social Network Writing Tool Startup 235

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

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. percent per swipe to beat the competition. Simplest and Lowest Cost Option.

Software Review 64

Software Review Email Competition Acquisition 64

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M Jacobo Lumbreras: Kelly was a previous investor in a company I was involved in before, in the enterprise software area.

Help 133

Help IP Content Google 133

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

But a lack of competition has also lead to a lack of innovation, resulting in low customer satisfaction and frequent complaints of difficult-to-use products. Jackson added, “Their pricing and technology are hold-overs from the 1990s—it goes to show how they have been shielded from competition for too long.

Mobile 91

Mobile Report Pricing Tool 91

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

It's somewhat unusual in this economy to find companies who are seeing strong growth, so we were intrigued recently in running into BlackLine Systems (www.blackline.com), a firm which develops software for helping in the financial reporting process. First, for our readers who aren't familiar with your software, can you explain what it does?

Startup 124

Startup Software Review CTO Hire Oracle 124

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 15, 2015

Workflow Software. You’ll be amazed at the results you can achieve with workflow software. This software helps you take important shortcuts to save time and make money. Your communications become more direct and meaningful with the help of workflow software. Business Process Management Software. Prioritize.

SEO 40

SEO Search Engine Optimization Tips Software Review 40

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

It's been awhile since we last caught up with Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), a venture-backed firm which develops language translation software, so we sat down the other day with Mark Tapling , the President and CEO of the firm, to hear more about where the company is nowadays--plus its strategy for growth and an exit.

Software Review 145

Software Review USC Content Tech Coast Angels 145

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

Email marketing. Plus lead-generation strategies can be updated by the flood of new technologies and software, including use of near-field and Bluetooth communications, QR codes, social check-in promotions, mobile search, mobile web, text, SMS, MMS and geolocation.

Social Media 55

Social Media SEM Startup Advertising 55

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2016

Studies of software teams, for example, show differences as great as ten to one in productivity between working team members. Unproductive procrastination is wasting time and effort, pretending to be busy, organizing your desk, checking email, surfing the internet, or taking another break. Reduce procrastination.

Activity 57

Activity Study Product Email 57

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2014

Email marketing. Plus lead-generation strategies can be updated by the flood of new technologies and software, including use of near-field and Bluetooth communications, QR codes, social check-in promotions, mobile search, mobile web, text, SMS, MMS and geolocation.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media SEM Advertising 99

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. Entrepreneur: Following is an email describing my idea. Since you won’t sign an NDA, you agree that by reading beyond this paragraph you are agreeing not to share my idea with anyone, forward this email to anyone, or discuss the idea without my consent.

Startup 211

Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with So instead of having to use a CRM, and an email platform, a video-hosting tool, a chat function, and a video publishing platform like YouTube, you have one complete solution in one product. And it would be?—?but

Software 234

Software Startup Tool Platform 234

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. Entrepreneur: Following is an email describing my idea. Since you won’t sign an NDA, you agree that by reading beyond this paragraph you are agreeing not to share my idea with anyone, forward this email to anyone, or discuss the idea without my consent.

Startup 198

Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

One of the most popular features of the application is the delegation feature, which with one tap allows them to email a grocery list to their husband to pick up. How did you end up in the mobile market from last running an enterprise software firm? It's the same business, over and over again. Al Eisaian: It's been angel funded so far.

Mobile 168

Mobile .Net Pasadena Software Review 168

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2016

Email marketing. Plus lead-generation strategies can be updated by the flood of new technologies and software, including use of near-field and Bluetooth communications, QR codes, social check-in promotions, mobile search, mobile web, text, SMS, MMS and geolocation.

Customer 60

Customer Custom Marketing Social Media 60