socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Here are eight Southern California companies and the experienced, successful entrepreneurs heading up their efforts, who haven't had any problems finding investors--or customers--for their firms. Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 13, 2015

I am battled tested head of technology with many successes under my belt. I am an expert at building practical and scalable software that meets the demands of real world customers. As CTO of Teletrac, I managed operations on two continents for both software and hardware.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

Eric Wilson, our CTO, is the man who has been here since the beginning and built all of this. Patrick Kennedy: Our customers are very active using our technology and analytics as a solution to increase the content sales from all kinds of customers. So carriers are a major customer of yours? Thanks for the time!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

And because I wanted Ethan to be able to attract a great team, build & iterate a product, test it with initial customers and refine his strategy before having to take the wrappers off of his company. Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Dave’s industry experience includes tenures as CTO and CEO of several successful software companies, and upper-level management positions in Fortune 100 companies. He keynotes leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, enterprise application integration, and enterprise architecture. CTO at SOA Software.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Los Angeles-based CurbStand (www.curbstand.com) is hoping to change that, by offering up a mobile app which connects you with the company''s network of CurbStand valet parking companies, which offers on-demand retrieval of your car, mobil payments, and on the valet parking operator side--lots of business analytics tools and reporting.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

I was selling products to Live Nation, Demand Media, Kelly Blue Book, Rovi, and the Screen Actors Guild. My co-founder and CTO, Steven Corwin, is a graduate of UCLA's Electrical Engineering program, and built our program and lead the development of our technology platform. Lots of them were in online media and entertainment.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

We talked with Eli Aizenstat , the founder and CEO of Beatshare�and still a student--as well as President and longtime technology vet Barry Lieberman about the startup. Photo: Barry Lieberman, President and COO; Eli Aizenstat, Founder & CEO; and Rob Patrick, CTO). What is Beatshare? How did you two connect?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

We spoke with Dave Fink , CEO and co-founder of Posite, and Jonathan Neddenriep , co-founder and CTO of the company, to learn more. Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. What is Postie?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

CallFire today extended its position as a leading provider of text message and voice apps that help organizations grow, with the launch of a definitive next-generation platform capable of scaling to meet the exploding global demand for advanced cloud telephony features, services and capacity.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Zachary Cancio (CTO, co-founder) Duke ECE/CS 2009. Theater owners love us because we bring them new customers without having to pay any setup fees, monthly fees, or monthly minimums. We charge our theater partners less and offer them more customization. We provide movie deals to our customers 24/7. 3rd Startup.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2012

When enhancing your value proposition, ask the same question a newcomer would ask, "what is the best way for users to interact with the new features, irrespective of the existing customer experience?" " I recently performed a 360-Review on two Co-Founders who were the company's CEO and CTO. 4) Rational Exuberance. "The

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. We spend a lot of time listening to our customers and working with them to build the right solutions.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Once you get to 300-500 customers, it blows up, because it was never intended to scale. Our CTO, Vladamir, the head of our engineering and core development team, went and formed his own garage R&D company. Our future is looking very bright--in the last two months, we've signed up more customers than we ever had before.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Investors demand more than that. " In Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Startup Founder , I mentioned that before you build your Minimum Viable Product (MVP), you need to be really clear on your purpose. The quality of the team, and overall financial health are equally important, as well as how your offering compares to competitors.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2016

I was SVP of Technology, and Dawn ran support and operations, and later billing and marketing. From NetZero, I went to Demand Media, where I was EVP of IT. I was primarily responsible for getting the technology side pulled together when they went public. We'll also be taking our customer from the domestic, U.S.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

When our Youtube views are driven up, that drives more licensing demand for the video, with other shows interested. We''ve taken his methodology, and built a business, people, and technology around that methodology. One of those, is content we know from our licensing customers is the kind of content they are interested in.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Here’s why that is important: when users are on your website you want to convert them to become paying customers. It’s true that the carrier then gets their huge slice for being the billing and payment engine but the idea is that you as a website more than make up for this in terms of customer conversion. 15mm in Series A.

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Frank Addante

JULY 20, 2012

With a great product comes great customers, and with customers comes revenue and profit, which in turn can be used to build more great products. A product manager is like the CEO of the product, the engineering lead like the CTO, and the top marketer the CMO. Here’s how. The best product wins.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

The best-performing ads are often custom, high-impact rich media ads that integrate seamlessly into a publisher’s content with interactivity, video and other features. The Interactive Advertising Bureau defined a set of rich media units rooted in familiar ad sizes and called them Rising Stars.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

Coming back with no matches is not a very satisfying result and you generally will lose customers that you may have even paid to acquire. A really great example of this is described by Steve Rentoid in Inventing Demand. The problem for an early stage startup is that without critical mass, the system doesn’t provide much value.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

Coming back with no matches is not a very satisfying result and you generally will lose customers that you may have even paid to acquire. A really great example of this is described by Steve Rentoid in Inventing Demand. The problem for an early stage startup is that without critical mass, the system doesn’t provide much value.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

The second is that the retailers were constrained by their high costs of local real estate and service staff relative to the costs of centralized warehouses where goods could be stacked high, sorted by robots, managed by RFIDs and then shipped via overnight to eager, cost-conscious customers across the US. 10x the experience.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

You can also customize actions based on your daily routines and then communicate with the hub remotely to change things when your routine changes. The hub can communicate with you when unexpected things happen, such as when your connected smoke alarm goes off, or the back door is unlocked unexpectedly.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

We came up with a positioning strategy that helps them sell value-added when recession-pinched customers are squeezing them for low rates. On Demand Printing : great prices and quality when you need printed materials which, contrary to popular belief, are alive and well. Not one of these ways is low rates.

Marketing 150

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. StrongMail’s software ensures reliable and timely delivery of their critical customer communications. As CTO, it was my job to solve this problem.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. Your remote control has two buttons. didn’t think so.

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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. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. LA and Seattle are in the second (or third) major wave of technology innovation. or the countless other successful startup firms.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

I honestly believe I learned more by rising up the ranks and becoming the president of my fraternity than I did in the class room reading about supply & demand curves in economics. She’s protecting them from the most intellectually demanding activities. They fund people with no customers. Most people work in groups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

If you are recognized as an expert in the business area of your startup, with a good reputation, and you know all the key vendors and customers, your value is huge. Providing the major funding source for an early-stage startup is a totally different dimension, but it usually trumps all the items above in demanding some equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

If you are recognized as an expert in the business area of your startup, with a good reputation, and you know all the key vendors and customers, your value is huge. Providing the major funding source for an early-stage startup is a totally different dimension, but it usually trumps all the items above in demanding some equity.

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