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.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I’ll publish the final post in this series this week and then move on to my next series – sales & marketing. I’ll be covering my PUCCKA sales methodology. In no time after they had researched their market they were up with pilots with local TV stations in 3 key DMAs.

Entrepreneur 267

Entrepreneur Startup SaaS San Diego 267

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. Our sales guys were on the front line and heard what they needed to win deals. Tim started to change our processes.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

The company is ServiceTitan, and its market… is air conditioners. 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.

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Glendale Los Angeles Startup Technical Review 271

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. Social media facilitates marketing and sales. You can optimize your website and spread your marketing messages across the world through the Internet.

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Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Outsource Development 162

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Evangelism marketing is an advanced form of word of mouth marketing (WOMM), now largely replaced by Facebook and Twitter. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Brand Officer.

CTO Hire 100

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Evangelism marketing is an advanced form of word of mouth marketing (WOMM), now largely replaced by Facebook and Twitter. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Brand Officer.

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Startup Invest CTO Hire Cloud Computing 97

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Evangelism marketing is an advanced form of word of mouth marketing (WOMM), now largely replaced by Facebook and Twitter. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Brand Officer.

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Startup CTO Hire Cloud Computing CIO 90

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Combining that with my previous experience, which was in the platform and SaaS market, and sports, was really a home run. We wanted to let people connect with even minor league teams, small market pro teams, college, everybody. I think that's really important before you go after a much larger market.

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Mobile Platform El Segundo UCLA 162

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

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. Social media facilitates marketing and sales. You can optimize your website and spread your marketing messages across the world through the Internet.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Commerce 104

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2011

A senior marketing director that will run online marketing, customer acquisition, and customer development efforts, 2. Several junior sales associates to handle online customer acquisition and orientation; and, 3. If interested contact Brian Reisgen at brian@sparqlight.com.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2016

Fenero is a provider of cloud-based contact center solutions for sales and customer service operations worldwide. The company currently has over 4,500 users worldwide and recently brought in Charles Callari, a former Global VP of Marketing and Strategy at Sykes Enterprises’, as its new Vice President (VP) of Customer Development.

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SaaS Artificial Inteligence Netflix Platform 49

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Putting customers first. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. Enjoyed this post? Here’s why.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. Broadly speaking this last trend has been healthy as it has brought an increase focus on launching products that you can test with the market and on capital efficiency.

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Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , August 9, 2010 This is Part 3 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches.? Novel and creative campaigns like the recent YouTube campaign from Old Spice purportedly demonstrate the power of social in marketing. If you do a lot of pitches, spend the six minutes to watch this.

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Here’s why. Take a look at the chart below.

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