TechCrunch LA
OCTOBER 27, 2020
The Los Angeles-based operations and security management software service, Replicated has raised $25 million to ramp up its staffing and scale its sales and marketing efforts. The funding, which was led by Two Sigma Ventures and included existing investors like Plexo Capital, Amplify, and BoldStart values the company at over $100 million.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 28, 2014
Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). 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. c-level entrepreneur funding startup titles' Chief Brand Officer.
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SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
There's a lot out there around Customer Development - read Steve Blank : Entrepreneurship as a Science – The Business Model/Customer Development Stack - Steve Blank , October 25, 2010 Checklists for Chaos, The Path to Success - Steve Blank , October 28, 2010 and reading about Lean, MVPs, etc. is a requirement.
TechCrunch LA
APRIL 12, 2018
Both programmers, the two reconnected after doing stints as custom developers during and after college, and then when they were developing tools for their families’ businesses as residential contractors in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 30, 2010
Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the provider of pay-per-call, performance marketing technology run by Jason Spievak, said this morning that it has closed on $4M more in a new round of funding. RingRvenue develops technology which tracks responses to phone calls, allowing calls to be used for affiliate sales and tracking.
Tech Zulu Event
MAY 10, 2011
He went on to explain a bit about the customer development model from Blanks: State business model assumptions. Iterate until validated (through sales or tangible exchange). Vision-Driven (You’re definitely going to need a strong vision when those sleepless nights, crying kids, and angry spouse enter the picture).
SoCal CTO
JUNE 9, 2010
Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said.
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