Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

They are tasked with “getting deals done&# so they race around talking to tons of potential partners inking anything from channel sale deals , product integration, international distribution agreements, co-marketing arrangements, M&A discussions, etc. Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people.

Startup 323

Startup Press Development Team Review SEM 323

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business.

Startup 174

Startup Training Services Writing 174

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2012

There are more than 10,000 people in Japan, and they're the third largest site behind Amazon and eBay, doing over 15 billion, with a 14 billon market cap in Japan. Neel Grover: We've been transforming the site and experience quite a bit. What kinds of changes have you been making? We've also hired a lot.

Sites 210

Sites Commerce Pricing Product 210

InfoChachkie

JUNE 24, 2013

Our goal was to have the conference participants wake up in their suites to a flyer stealthily placed under their doors in the middle of the night. I had no idea how I was going to slip the flyers under the doors of conference attendees. A conference bag had been hung on my door handle, and every other attendee''s door handle as well.

Marketing 133

Marketing Conference Startup Oracle 133

socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2012

How do you cut out all of the effort required to discover, find, and book venues for your event, wedding, or conference? As a reminder to our readers who haven't used EventUp, what is the site all about? I also had the chance to do a conference, and had knowledge of that. is trying to figure out.

Santa Monica 211

Santa Monica Seed Funding Startup Conference 211

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Of the ones I have been to recently, the Nantucket Conference has been my favorite. It's a great talk. It's a great talk.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

We started a company called CallFire, which made SMS and voice automation tools for sales and marketing teams. Ideally, it''s a web-based business with a phone number on their web site, where they need to constantly engage with their customer, field customer inquires, and need to create a ticket around each customer contact.

Custom 133

Custom Customer Startup Mobile 133

socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2017

Ahead of the Recurring Revenue Conference ([link] which we are helping to sponsor next week, we are chatting with a few companies in the recurring revenue area space. Additionally, we're very sales and marketing driven. When we started out, it was all about new revenues and new sales. What's the idea behind SnackNation?

Entrepreneur 124

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. In a world where 90% of communications is non-verbal imagine what is lost on conference calls. I prefer the first sales hires to be in the home office.

Technical Advisors 335

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Offshore Startup 335

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business.

Services 72

Services Startup Training Writing 72

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Some people do the conference circuit too much, get involved in lots of side projects and attend every entrepreneur dinner. When I go to conference I never sit in the meeting section – I always cruise the halls meeting people. We end up out a lot at events: dinners, cocktail parties, conferences. Not any more for me.

Venture Capital 312

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Entrepreneur 312

socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

Edward Park: When we first launched, we were a business to consumer service site. To give you an idea, if you host your own store on CafePress and Zazzle, you're going to get a payout of about 10 percent on your sales, which ends up being $2 or $3. Then, for the TechCrunch conference last year, they needed some T-shirts made.

Startup 174

Startup Commerce Web 2.0 Screening 174

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Composed of a three-month boot camp , the program aims to help startups build their brand while figuring out the nitty gritty of finance, manufacture, distribution and sales. More information is available through a FAQ on 1776’s site. The goal: Dairy innovation. The Travel Experience Incubator.

Incubator 70

Incubator Santa Clarita Technical Advisors FAQ 70

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2015

You can spread the word by attending conventions and conferences relating to your field of business. Social sites are a great way to advertise your business. Create pages for your business on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and any other social sites that are used by potential customers. Know Your Target Clients.

Tips 40

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2012

Use it in every networking situation and business conference introduction. The elevator pitch should be the first few paragraphs of your business plan, your executive summary, your investor presentation, and the first page of your web site. A good elevator pitch is not just for an elevator discussion.

Startup 113

Startup Patents Template Competition 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business.

Services 105

Services Startup Training Writing 105

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The Montgomery Conference : one of the top technology events of the annual calendar in the United States and held every March. Woot was one of the first one-per-day item sales site with a humorous and not always PC content. Shame they didn’t like his suggested name for the company: DreamWorks SKG-MM. We discussed: 1.

Venture Capital 242

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socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2013

Big publishers are using that to arm their sales forces, and figuring out what advertisers to go after and what to pitch. I spoke last week at the OMMA RTB conference, and described some of the data we have on how RTB is being used, and that was very well received. Similar, we also provide information on what publishers are doing.

Advertising 153

Advertising Startup CTO Coach Study 153

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. What kind of documents do you envision people offering through the site? It's something like between $50M and $100M in sales per year. It's the eBay of professional documents.

Technical Review 171

Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business.

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Whether it’s a local tweet-up or a major conference, this knowledge could be useful to help you plan what events you should sponsor or where you should set up your next booth. Groupon’s purchase of Whrrl suggests that Groupon will soon be leveraging location based social networking or "check-ins" on their popular group coupon site.

Competition 84

Competition Entertainment Advertising Social Media 84

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

The largest YouTube for business conference is coming up this week, Vid Con. Years before Hello Flo’s “The Camp Gyno” video existed, in 2009, Orabrush, a tongue cleaner company, was setting the precedent for what would be how to make a million dollars in ecommerce sales utilizing YouTube marketing. If we apply that.01%

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Use it in every networking situation and business conference introduction. The elevator pitch should be the first few paragraphs of your business plan, your executive summary, your investor presentation, and the first page of your web site. A good elevator pitch is not just for an elevator discussion.

Startup 93

Startup Competition Summary Patents 93

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Learning experience includes: on-demand online video tutorial courses, live video-conference workshops, as well as individual online consultations, live workshops, and group programs. Mike’s work in sales, marketing, distribution, and business development is essential to customer acquisition, growth, and scalability.

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Right now we're working on a multi-platform sales support program for Daylight Transport, a mid-sized LTL (Less Than Truckload) carrier and logistics company. Clients use our templates for things like sales sheets. AlwaysOn has some of the best conferences I've ever been to. I'll connect offline on both of those.

Marketing 150

Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We have built SocialStay for scale so I think the ‘chasm’ is both a function of time and sales. 8 ) SocialStay is effectively a B-to-B, SaaS product that requires you to simultaneously speak to several audiences (hotels, travelers, travel sites, etc.). You don’t need much… But what you do need is sales. Grass is always greener….

Startup 233

Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233

Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

It’s currently Biogen’s top-selling product, generating close to $2 billion in sales during the first half of 2016. Biogen is holding a conference call this morning to discuss its quarterly earnings. George joined Biogen at a very challenging time. Shares of Biogen surged more than 6 percent in pre-market trading Thursday morning.

San Diego 40

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. My blog was wiped out. And covered we did. After Office 2.0

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service.

Los Angeles 75

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

In April 2011, the Association of Coupon Professionals held an Industry Conference in Atlanta to address the present and future state of couponing. Evidence of this was seen in late November 2011, when Foursquare announced they will be incorporating a new “ social sharing ” button on their site. Paul Breummer, Search Engine Land.

Mobile 85

Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

I told him how we were looking to track people who were looking at Hiphop events in a city, and do direct sales to them and present them to brands to highlight that matched their interests. No one knew what was going on then, this was before iOS 3, and he contracted me to make the site and help create the brand. That was a lot of fun.

Startup 262

Startup Mobile Outsource Development Tool 262

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

From local Los Angeles tech events to worldwide conferences and expos. At the conference, we will explore how companies are using these technologies today, and should be using them tomorrow, for significant bottom line impact in areas like marketing, corporate information management, publishing, customer service, and personal productivity.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40

Xconomy

JULY 15, 2016

All eyes are on Holmes, who is scheduled to present data from the company’s technology at a medical conference on August 1. Layoffs will hit two New Jersey sites and one in Pennsylvania, resulting in a loss of less than 10 percent of its “discovery, preclinical and early development” staff, a spokeswoman said via e-mail.

News 40

News Technical Review San Diego Startup 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Video chat is also integrated into our service, and you can invite anyone across any network into a video chatroom, or multiple users into a room for a conference. What's the business model behind the site? I helped build out the advertising sales model there, and then helped found a company based out of Redmond called InfoSpace.

Email 113

Email Yahoo Startup Google 113

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Jim Farley is Ford Motor Company’s group vice president, global marketing, sales and service.

Los Angeles 49

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Those could be mobile professionals, corporate firms, sales people, or people who normally work at client sites or home based offices. You can't take a conference call or a client call at a cafe, and it's all very noisy and distracting. Many of those people have been stuck at home, because there were no other choices.

Startup 100

Startup Web 2.0 Userplane Tsavo 100

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Technology wise, we've got our own engineering expertise, and we've built our own video softphone with HD video--which we have in alpha--for HD videoconferencing on a standard CPU, as opposed to the extremely expensive, $20,000 systems that exist now in corporate conference rooms. So, we see ourselves as a technology provider.

IP 165

IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165