TechCrunch LA
APRIL 12, 2018
Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team for the real estate developer CBRE; the International House of Pancakes; Disney Consumer Products; DreamWorks Studios; Walt Disney Animation and Univision.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
We ended up merging those two companies together and I took over client services for Business.com, around the time Benchmark invested in us, and we ended up selling that company to R.H. The reason why, is my experience is in early stage sales and more specifically, in early stage customer development. Donnelly in 2007.
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Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 22, 2013
What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. Evangelism marketing is an advanced form of word of mouth marketing (WOMM), now largely replaced by Facebook and Twitter.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 8, 2010
We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about. I’m going to save that for a future blog post.
socalTECH
APRIL 10, 2018
The concept, is we want o get them to an accelerator, get them investment, or get them to revenueany one of those paths would be great. They fail to understand what the market is, what their differentiation is to their customers. Blake Caldwell: We believe heavily in customer in customer development.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Minimize investment in prototypes and tooling. A programmer can build a new smartphone app for a few thousand dollars.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 6, 2017
Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. Why are these colleges using you, rather than investing in their own custom applications? Laurence Sotsky: I've been working in the software-as-a-service space for some time, in medium-sized, venture capital backed companies.
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