SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Thursday, November 6, 2008 -- "Recession-proof Pricing Strategies for a Multi-platform World" Technology Council. Today's technology companies increasingly must deliver products on multiple platforms to satisfy customer demand and competitive pressures.

Pricing 100

Pricing Technology Council Framework Platform 100

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 30, 2022

Genies is partnering with a handpicked group of creators to design the first set of collections available on the platform, Nigam said. “Creators will be selling their own avatar fashion, and the ones that they’ve customized over the past couple of months. ” Genies CEO and founder Akash Nigam. . Image Credits: Genies.

Geni 219

Geni Silver Lake Startup Platform 219

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

Sales 282

Sales Demand San Diego Funding 282

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Marty Zwilling.

Mobile 126

Mobile Develop Development Platform 126

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Not only has he become the richest man in the world again, leapfrogging a certain Mr Musk, but it has also been revealed that Amazon has quietly acquired ecommerce platform Selz. Nothing is changing for our customers at this time, and we’ll be in touch with customers as and when we have further updates.

News 137

News Acquisition Platform Sales 137

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

However, its unique-for-the-industry monthly subscription model has helped it maintain healthy profits from its loyal customer base in 2023. Calendly Calendly is an online scheduling platform popular among business and personal users. Organic milk formula product Bobbie. million site visits in October alone. Gumroad homepage.

Startup 213

Startup Generative AI Newsletter Tool 213

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

This week, we saw the interconnectedness of major institutions as crypto lending protocol Celsius stuttered and brought down Ethereum prices with it as investors feared a price collapse brought on by reportedly over-leveraged players like 3 Arrows Capital. pic.twitter.com/AacdhK3cw4. — Molly White (@molly0xFFF) June 16, 2022.

Newsletter 278

Newsletter Platform Capital Marketing 278

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The logic in this is simple: once a company has market share, other issues can be sorted out to monetize the market, make the company profitable, scoop up wavering competitors, or even sell the company to a larger firm looking for a large customer base. And it’s a contemporary problem. Angel investors are more tolerant of this than VCs.

Venture Capital 156

Venture Capital Social Media Invest Marketing 156

TechCrunch LA

MAY 3, 2012

They offer ground transportation with up-front before-you-ride pricing throughout the U.S., The service basically puts all the control in the hands of the customer. You can book a reservation way in advance, or on-demand if you’re in NYC. You’ve heard of GroundLink before.

Los Angeles 100

Los Angeles Services Platform Angel 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. Platform as a Service (PaaS). Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service. Cloud Computing.

Technology 133

Technology Cloud Computing Social Media Networking 133

Tech.Co

MAY 6, 2022

Together with Deliverr, Shopify Fulfillment Network will give millions of growing businesses access to a simple, powerful logistics platform that will allow them to make their customers happy over and over again.”. Plus, Shopify says, “inventory placement algorithms” can predict demand in order to better route inventory.

Networking 125

Networking Press Newsletter Startup 125

TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2020

That bid was enough to convince Davita and Martin Macauley, a couple who own a home in Los Angeles’ Gramercy Park neighborhood and are two of United Dwelling’s first customers. “[I] changed the price by 11 percent and walked that through and continued to move forward,” Dietz said.

Los Angeles 191

Los Angeles Startup Culver City .Net 191

socalTECH

MAY 6, 2019

To fix that problem, Los Angeles-based Coozie (coozieoudoors.com) offers up a different optiona way to rent gear at a fraction of purchase price. We partner with premium outdoor brands, and rent equipment at 15 percent of the retail price. We allow them to get access to that gear at a fraction of that price. What do you do?

Startup 113

Startup Los Angeles Pricing Demand 113

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

We are an offer-based platform that allows users to negotiate the price they buy and sell tickets for, on the secondary market. Wes Brodsky: The ticketing industry, since its inception, has been on a fixed price model. That's a completely inefficient way to price tickets. It is now very, very customer friendly.

Ticketmaster 253

Ticketmaster Pricing Sales Activity 253

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. Steve Banfield: What will become Rightside has been part of Demand Media.

Demand 231

Demand HTML Web Media 231

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

It reportedly paid a hefty $230 million to acquire the podcast publisher and network startup Gimlet Media, and has also acquired the podcast monetization platform Anchor for an undisclosed price. That’s because the acquisitions make Spotify a publisher, as well as platform. Spotify Acquires Gimlet Media and Anchor.

Acquisition 124

Acquisition Media News Platform 124

Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Businesses are driving that growth, winning customers and expanding their operations. To find scalable Ethernet services that can handle increasing demands as you grow, you need to evaluate providers and services on a specific criteria set that’s designed to accommodate growth. As you scale, those demands will only increase.

Southern California 60

Southern California Services Demand SoCal 60

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 98

Startup Platform Pricing Netflix 98

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). Ariel understood her customer?—?the

Product 296

Product Course Customer Custom 296

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

They don’t realize that they are missing out on a great opportunity for “free” promotion, as well as taking a great risk by not listening to what customers are saying, and not monitoring or responding to undeserved challenges to their reputation. Choose the best social media platform for your domain.

Social Media 99

Social Media Media Tool Startup 99

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

It runs our proprietary technology, and it's a platform that people can plug into. I think, now more than ever, Flippy meets the distinct challenges and can help our customers spur new growth. He thought that was b t, and he said-if you are able to do this, he told me he'd be my first customer and supply us with seed capital.

Startup 113

Startup Venture Capital Capital Customer 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Los Angeles is the capital of on-demand apps, for just about anything you want. One of those areas that combines LA's passion for on-demand apps, and its active lifestyle, is Fitspot (www.fitspotapp.com), which brings athletic trainers to you or your local fitness center. Ninety percent of our customers are on packages.

Training 100

Training Startup Orange County Malibu 100

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Its target customers are millennials traveling in groups or families swayed by the size and scope of the accommodation — typically five times bigger than the average hotel room — as well as the price, which is on average 25% cheaper than a hotel room. and globally to 25 markets by next year, up from 12 today.

Equity 136

Equity Startup Los Angeles Capital 136

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

But for creators seeking to monetize their following, these newer platforms may be more attractive to some creators, since they already have built-in tools to help them monetize their followings. If a creator or celebrity were to sell personalized videos on Cameo , they’d lose 25% to the platform. Image Credits: Snipfeed.

Platform 286

Platform Commerce Startup Tool 286

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

I think, to be a great entrepreneur, you have to look at what is missing in the category that you will be playing in the industry, and figure what you can deploy with a little bit of strategy and technology to bring a better service and price. That's been very effective. Explain what you mean about branding in the employment area?

Content 193

Content Social Network Coach Help 193

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

I want to understand how many units the company is selling, whether this is increasing over time and how well they’re doing at retaining the customers that they do acquire. Do 20% of the customers make 80% of the revenue or do the top 3 customers represent 80% of the revenue. My first priority is to understand “growth drivers.”

Startup 227

Startup Venture Capital Sales Course 227

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

What our technology platform does, is determines what about a marketer's offers that will matter to the consumer. That's based on insights into the customer and product, so that we can build relevant, optimized, geotargeted, and customized ads that will engage consumers. We've got the momentum going on customer adoption.

Yahoo 171

Yahoo Platform Advertising Startup 171

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. Platform as a Service (PaaS). Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service. Cloud Computing.

Technology 86

Technology Cloud Computing Social Media Networking 86

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

And because I wanted Ethan to be able to attract a great team, build & iterate a product, test it with initial customers and refine his strategy before having to take the wrappers off of his company. MyTime aims to be the first industry-wide platform to help create consistency across the SKUs in services businesses.

CTO Coach 359

CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 22, 2016

Less than a month ago, Snapchat opened custom on-demand geofilters to everyone. Industry news was excited, but for how amazing of a product they are, custom Snapchat geofilters have remained stunningly under the radar. Well, Snapchat has made it so that anyone can create and upload a custom filter to any area they want.

Customer 40

Customer Custom Snapchat Design 40

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

ChowNow , the turnkey interactive food ordering platform, just raised $3 million in additional funding to launch new products and expand national operations. ChowNow offers restaurants a suite of customized branded interactive apps to make online ordering a snap. ChowNow came out of incubator LaunchPad LA.

GRP Partners 73

GRP Partners Email Incubator Platform 73

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. No platform is naïve enough to allow an outsider to grow enormously large in their ecosystem without an appropriate tax or benefit to them.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2015

The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. Platform as a Service (PaaS). Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service. Cloud Computing.

Startup 107

Startup Cloud Computing Social Media Entrepreneur 107

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. We've taken all of the logistics and headache out of defining a campaign for our customers. Photo: Dave Fink on left, Jonathan Neddenriep on right.

CTO Hire 100

CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Learning experience includes: on-demand online video tutorial courses, live video-conference workshops, as well as individual online consultations, live workshops, and group programs. Mike’s work in sales, marketing, distribution, and business development is essential to customer acquisition, growth, and scalability. How does it work?

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2017

The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. Platform as a Service (PaaS). Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service. Cloud Computing.

Cloud Computing 61

Cloud Computing Startup Social Media Networking 61

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

CTO Hire 248

CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248