socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2020

For our interview today, we spoke with Darren Litt , one of the co-founders of Los Angeles-based MarketerHire , an online marketplace focused on connecting companies with marketing talent. It's a talent marketplace that connects marketers with customers, from big boys like Netflix, to startups like Allbirds, and all kinds of other companies.

Commerce 113

Commerce Marketing Southern California Netflix 113

socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together.

SaaS 113

SaaS Startup Customer Custom 113

InfoChachkie

JUNE 2, 2014

The gowns are then dry cleaned and readied for the next customer, in the spirit of the emerging sharing economy in which goods are communally used multiple times. Curious to learn more about Kelsey''s seemingly obvious, yet logistically challenging idea, I interviewed her during a rare break in her hectic schedule. Interview'

Design 208

Design Customer Custom Satisfaction 208

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2019

For this morning's interview, we had a chat with Eli Portnoy , the CEO and founder of Culver City-based Sense360 (www.sense360.com), com), which is developing analytics software which leverages mobile phones for data on customers. Is there a new source of data that you have, or what exactly are your customer using?

Startup 113

Startup Culver City Competition Customer 113

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

Our interview today is with Scott Grimes , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Stackin' , which operates a text-based, financial messaging platform. As we move forward, we are hoping to personalize that relationship as much as possible, based on life events, and provide a customized experience. Stackin recentlyraised $12.6M

Content 124

Content Social Media Startup Artificial Inteligence 124

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We spoke with one of those companies-- El Segundo-based ConsumerTrack (www.consumertrack.com)--which is a $30M, bootstrapped an online marketing company which is driving millions of customers to big name, financial customers. generation lead marketing online startup interview consumertrack rossman brett' We do that methodically.

Startup 239

Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Scott Cannon , the CEO of BigRentz (www.bigrentz.com), which is creating an online marketplace for big equipment--an industry known notoriously as not adopting new technology. From a customer standpoint, though, it's pretty clear. So, from the customer side, it was much easier.

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Startup Metrics Customer Custom 174

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2011

When you are interviewing candidates during the early stages of your startup, who is far more important than what, because the tasks the candidate previously performed may only be partially applicable to the role they will play at your adVenture. For one thing, it is tricky to properly map candidates to the categories noted below.

Entrepreneur 252

Entrepreneur Paramount Startup Organization 252

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories that I like as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. Few of us have the background to know when to turn down an interview request, or never use the “no comment” approach, or when it’s more effective to comment “off the record.”

Press 105

Press Social Media Startup Training 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories that I like as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. Few of us have the background to know when to turn down an interview request, or never use the “no comment” approach, or when it’s more effective to comment “off the record.”

Media 55

Media Social Media Startup Training 55

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

Our interview today is with Nick Hedges , the CEO of Santa Monica-based MomentFeed. A lot of them looked at what software to get rid of, and what software to keep, and every single one of our customers put us on the keep list. We also started offering up some aspects of our software for free to help our customers thrive in COVID.

Google 113

Google Santa Monica Networking Software 113

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Our interview this morning is with Robin Richards , the CEO of Los Angeles-based CareerArc (www.careerarc.com). Now we have a thousand large companies into it, and if you name a big company, they're a customers of ours, from Starbucks to NASA. com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. That's been very effective.

Content 193

Content Social Network Coach Help 193

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

The final clip is Fred & I talking about whether “the best product wins” and my assertion that the bias in today’s Silicon Valley dominated tech world there is probably too much emphasis on tech at the expense of how to sell, implement and service customers. It’s easy to invest in today’s momentum categories.

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Venture Capital Startup Writing Blogging 150

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

To kick off our first interview for the year, we've got an interview with Kevin Strong , the CEO of Laguna Beach-based FutureDash (www.futuredash.com), a developer of technology for the home energy monitoring market. We're in the category of energy monitoring tools. Kevin Strong: There are several things.

Startup 140

Startup OCTANE Outsource Development Google 140

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2012

He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. Few of us have the background to know when to turn down an interview request, or never use the “no comment” approach, or when it’s more effective to comment “off the record.” Make every interview memorable.

Training 93

Training Media Entrepreneur Social Media 93

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

We do everything from picking, packing, and shipping to customer service, fulfillment, and providing the technology that powers the e-commerce site, online marketing, creative design, and digital imaging and photography. Who are your ideal customers and market? John Tomich: I think it''s the business model.

Commerce 203

Commerce Venture Capital Internet Brands Startup 203

socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

It''s a perfect opportunity for data geeks in marketing and the business side to get information on customers in real time. There are companies much bigger than Smartify trying to solve the challenge of how to create a unified database of customers. carla bourque smartify facebook social marketing entrepreneur startup interview'

Marketing 196

Marketing Pasadena Platform Email 196

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

What we've developed, is an Android app that allows us to open up financial access to customers in emerging markets. The really, really exciting this, is in emerging markets, customers have been underserved by financial institutions for years, because they lack credit scores. Also, as you mention, we're far away from our customers.

Startup 100

Startup Santa Monica Customer Custom 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

One of our core tasks was “market analysis,&# which consistent of: market sizing, market forecasts, competitive analysis and then instructing customers on which direction to take. They had interviewed telecom operators, handset manufacturers and corporate buyers. They just define their category tightly enough that they win it.

Statistics 415

Statistics Startup Report Research 415

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

But why we decided to incubate this one, is we looked at the category to see what we could find in terms of early stage companies, executing against what we had identified--and we didn't find any out there. We're matching the marketplace notion and model of driving customers to the top retailers. READ MORE>>.

Incubator 239

Incubator Startup Web Technical Review 239

InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2016

Custom Wharton Degree. As I turned away, somewhat shocked with the ease with which I had customized my curriculum, he stopped me and asked, “I can understand why you want to take Squash, but can I ask why you are enrolling in Farsi?”. When trying to cobble together a startup degree, consider the following categories of classes.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Class Course Writing 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. ESPN, Forbes, AOL were customers. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. I’m now back & ready for action.

Capital 265

Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

For our interview today, we sat down with Kevin Anderson , one of the co-founders of Los Angeles-based Appetize (www.appetizeapp.com), the developer of a cloud based enterprise point of sale solutions for venues and events. We provide primarily enterprise, category, point-, and sit in between the legacy guys and mobile guys.

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Sales Mobile Startup 100

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

We''ve got a grid of 500 nodes, handling a billion and a half clicks and call impressions, which we drive for our customers. I think their number is a bit higher than that, but it also skews towards the lifestyle category--restaurants and retail. We index towards those categories, and we do really well. READ MORE>>.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

We have six key categories of what we do. Third, is we provide customer care and phone support for orders; the fourth is the software technology, the platform that powers everything. The sixth is marketing analytics, including SEM/SEO, collecting customer names, emails -- we use ExactTarget for emails, and Omniture for Analytics.

Venture Capital 113

Venture Capital SEM Commerce Email 113

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

We''ve got a grid of 500 nodes, handling a billion and a half clicks and call impressions, which we drive for our customers. I think their number is a bit higher than that, but it also skews towards the lifestyle category--restaurants and retail. We index towards those categories, and we do really well. READ MORE>>.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Putting customers first. Legendary customer support. Instead of making a few dollars per sale and hoping for thousands of sales, you sell to only a few customers, and charge much higher rates.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

Our customers tend to be mostly moms, but also some dads who support their families, uncles, aunts, and their friends, but primarily moms. I made a point to call ten of our customers randomly every day, and ask questions--such as what other products they were interested in, what was challenging, what products they liked to buy from us.

Software Review 200

Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

I must say I’ve become a regular user of ShopperSeeks every since this interview. And you will to after this interview. I enjoyed it there, but they eliminated the apparel category so I decided to worked for a family owned apparel company. Kyle: What’s been the most after sought category of items?

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Media Sites 99

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Jason Reid , CEO and Co-founder of Giftagram (www.giftagram.com), which announced a $3.2M How that works, is when you download Giftagram, you can peruse through gifts in different categories that we have set up, and see what products we have. Who are your typical customers?

Mobile 100

Mobile Platform Commerce Class 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2010

Customers will now be able to choose their level of customization from Mobile Roadie CORE, PLUS, and PRO. Mobile Roadie Pro gives users the ability to fully customize the menu layout, colors, buttons, and fonts. The new CMS also supports multiple content categories, global search, and new landscape views.

Mobile 40

Mobile RSS Southern California Content 40

InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2011

I = Technical Customer Calls. For instance, in the above chart, sitting in on “Technical Customer Calls,” was highly rated by the Founder, but deemed by the Core Team to be a duty that the CTO could effectively delegate. The lower the average score, the greater the importance attributed to it by the Founder. Competency.

Technical Review 182

Technical Review Software Review Startup Outsource 182

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2010

We learned from our customer base that 75 percent of the people who make a purchase at one of our sales are purchasing those brands for the first time. We even have brands using us to test new products coming out in the future, to see if they will resonate with their customer base. What is all that funding going towards?

Sales 224

Sales Email Startup Sample 224

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2009

We are currently working with a couple of Fortune 500 companies, doing customized versions of this for market research. Instead of having a typical survey, users will go to the site, ask specific questions, and we'll aggregate the data from an analytical and statistical perspective, which we will provide to our customers.

Research 100

Research Statistics Pepperdine Sites 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's in the automated translation category of the industry. We've essentially provided a customer a single interface, where they can create and analyze their international presence. In addition to that, we provide the ability of customers to review that with analytics. Who would be the typical customer for this service?

Startup 133

Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

Exercise II: Your Fortune Magazine Interview. For each one, answer the following questions as if you were being interviewed by a writer from Fortune magazine. Structure each of your ideas into these six categories. Customer Problems/ Pain Points. State the problem/ pain points of the customers clearly.

Startup 243

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Statistics 243

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

This morning's interview is with Billy Fried , co-founder and CEO of Kijubi (www.kijubi.com), a new startup which is looking to help people find travel activities. We've really set out to solve the problem we saw, which is a vast category of travel information which is not aggregated well on the web.

Activity 164

Activity Startup Sites Web 164