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Boulevard books $70M to help beauty and wellness salons with their bookings

TechCrunch LA

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but when it comes to getting ahold of an appointment for your hair or another treatment…that’s a different story: The bespoke nature of a lot of the work has meant that a large swathe of the professionals providing these services have stayed offline when it comes to interfacing with customers.

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

socalTECH

That includes Notre Dame, Oregon, UCLA, and others. We're the official mobile app for whatever our customer is. For example, we're the official mobile app of UCLA, even though behind the scenes is actually Hopscotch. Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. What do your apps do?

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Burn the bridges behind.

Berkonomics

As I look back at insights I might share, I wade through the trite suggestions of ‘work hard’ and ‘treat the customer well.’ My sales tax payments were due in the next few days, and I didn’t have the money. But I did have an appointment, a sales opportunity the next morning. I made the sale, and paid my debts.

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Interview with Wes Nichols, MarketShare

socalTECH

Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments.

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How FilmBreak Is Bringing Data and Analytics To Hollywood, with Darren Marble

socalTECH

Darren Marble: I spent the last ten years in enterprise sales, selling enterprise software and services to Fortune 500 companies. I'm a guy that gets things done as a sales person. Your customer aren't used to using this kind of data to drive their marketing--how are they reacting to the analytics you can provide?

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Interview with Wes Brodsky, SaveFans

socalTECH

Educate us, and explain what's different about how you are handling ticket sales and how that's different from the many others out there? When I graduated from UCLA in 1999, I started working for an accounting firm. The reason why, is the StubHub did a good job legitimizing secondary sale of tickets.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Paul Ollinger, West Coast Vice President of Sales of Facebook Paul Ollinger is the West Coast Vice President of Sales for Facebook. He has also been a Regional Sales Director and National Account Director for Facebook. LAUNCH.com, and The Improv Comedy Clubs.