socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based HauteLook (www.hautelook.com), an online private sales site, scored a major round of funding--raising $31M from Insight Venture Partners. Adam Bernhard: We're a platform that does flash sales. Adam, thanks for the time. We work on behalf of brands, as a web site that has a membership base of over 2.5

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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.

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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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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'

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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. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. Innovative.

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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.

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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.

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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>>.

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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>>.

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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. For lack of a better word, it's really social shopping--not in the way of using social networking to drive sales, but because moms are social, to allow them to share information regularly online.

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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.

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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.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

We caught up with Eric Hovanec, the firm's CEO, and Steve Reich, the firm's SVP of Sales, to hear more about the funding. We help them distribute their product, and put it on the shelf, anywhere a customer might buy--whether that's with a tour operator, travel agency, or a travel website. So we jumped. You're dealing with complexity.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We have built SocialStay for scale so I think the ‘chasm’ is both a function of time and sales. Without their buy in, we don’t get the opportunity to interact with end customers. Yeah, I have made plenty of mistakes in this category in the past. You don’t need much… But what you do need is sales.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. I don't have a long sales cycle, because I'm talking to people who have already chosen Jetty. I also worked in sales groups for Websphere, and bootstrapped Webtide--all right in a row. They all were very different companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Today, we support four categories: house cleaning, dry cleaning – pickup and delivery, wash and fold – pickup and delivery, and dog walking. What we are spending money and time on is onboarding customers on one end and on the other end onboarding providers. We haven’t had any capital to really test customer acquisition strategies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2010

Define criteria for judging – I find that many people I know go into interviews without thinking about what is important to them first. In fact, many people just go into interviews and “wing it.&# If that’s you then vow never to do it again. and then sub categories underneath. BEFORE YOU START.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. Get Our Best Interviews. Idea Mensch. Subscribe to RSS.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

That, plus I love the space of high-customer-service, focused eCommerce for moms worried about what their kids eat & wear.&#. Part 1/3 of Interview: How Jody Started EcoMom, its Evolution, Fundraising Process, and Utilization of AngelList [Minutes: Start – 23:00] The Humble Beginnings as SproutBaby. I love the concept. Show Notes.

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