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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2023

Anyone can build a new web site, or publish a smartphone app for a few thousand dollars, but getting market penetration requires a lot more. Customers have come to expect disruptive change, so yet another social network is not the way to get traction. Overall, the leader’s mindset begins with zero compromise on purpose.

Entrepreneur 118

Entrepreneur Startup Social Network SpaceX 118

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and social media interactions, access to peer reviews, as well as the actual services experience. Relationships are a function of customer culture.

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Services Social Media Technical Review Media 128

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world. What inspired you?

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Nothing is changing for our customers at this time, and we’ll be in touch with customers as and when we have further updates. That's not bad but it's miles off market leader Shopify which boasts millions of customers. But Amazon faces a serious problem: Consumer demand is changing. Can be confusing to use, though.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Here are eight Southern California companies and the experienced, successful entrepreneurs heading up their efforts, who haven't had any problems finding investors--or customers--for their firms. Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The best opportunities are recognized from painful needs, plus a growing population of customers with money to spend. The Internet is a business for transporting web services. It allows customers to complete their shopping in one place, and businesses get the value of volume and common processes.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Pasadena-based Foodme (www.foodme.com) is one of the first, external startups funded out of Idealab's New Venture Group, and is looking to help connect restaurants with customers using a CPA model. We don't cannibalize their existing customers base. John Delacruz: Right now, people come to our web site and tell us what they want.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Anyone can build a new web site, or publish a smartphone app for a few thousand dollars, but getting market penetration requires a lot more. Customers have come to expect disruptive change, so yet another social network is not the way to get traction. Overall, the leader’s mindset begins with zero compromise on purpose.

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Entrepreneur Social Network SpaceX Ideas 143

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. And with direct traffic making up 71% of Caledly’s total traffic, demand for the scheduling tool is likely to remain strong into 2024. million site visits in October alone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

More important than a business plan may be early networking, a web site and blog, and building relationships with key industry experts. Many of the business plans I see are built around a dream, with idealistic costs, margins, and customer demand. Test a prototype solution before you build a business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money. The number of current potential customers is large and growing. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Design a product or service that you can sell. So let’s take a look.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2017

Every business I know is intimately familiar with outbound marketing, or pushing your message out to customers through email, newspaper, and television advertising. Only a few really understand the process and value of inbound marketing, for pulling customers to your brand. Participate in the top social media sites for maximum impact.

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Marketing Social Media Content Media 76

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web. The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys. What's the idea behind Audiolife?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; Real-time search engine.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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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. Brett Rossman: ConsumerTrack is a performance-based, online marketing company. We do that methodically.

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Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2019

The best opportunities are recognized from painful needs, plus a growing population of customers with money to spend. The Internet is a business for transporting web services. It allows customers to complete their shopping in one place, and businesses get the value of volume and common processes.

Startup 90

Startup Ideas Examples Entrepreneur 90

Southern California Edison Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

As 5G rolls out across the world, the technology’s ecosystem continues to expand as more telecom operators upgrade their infrastructure and expand their services to meet shifting customer demands. This significant difference enables end-users to load web pages faster and download content quicker than ever before. 1] [link]. [2]

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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. And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. What enabled you to get that first customer on board? We were really focused on customer acquisition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Anyone can build a new web site, or publish a smartphone app for a few thousand dollars, but getting market penetration requires a lot more. Customers have come to expect disruptive change, so yet another social network is not the way to get traction. Overall, the leader’s mindset begins with zero compromise on purpose.

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Entrepreneur Social Network SpaceX Ideas 86

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2010

For this morning's interview, we have an interview with Kieve Huffman , the co-founder of Dather (www.dather.com), a new Los Angeles startup which has created a tool which helps to aggregate social networking web sites and media. Lots of companies have traditionally used agencies to develop these kinds of functions for their sites.

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Startup Buzznet Entertainment Social Network 213

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2016

Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and social media interactions, access to peer reviews, as well as the actual services experience. Relationships are a function of customer culture.

Services 54

Services Social Media Technical Review Media 54

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Anyone can build a new web site, or publish a smartphone app for a few thousand dollars, but getting market penetration requires a lot more. Customers have come to expect disruptive change, so yet another social network is not the way to get traction. Overall, the leader’s mindset begins with zero compromise on purpose.

Entrepreneur 103

Entrepreneur Social Network SpaceX Ideas 103

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Although Eucalyptus is still a relatively small company from a personnel standpoint, it already counts twenty one of the Fortune 100 as it customers. The most typical use case is a scalable web service. You can manage across AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Eucalyptus, for instance.”. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Platform Resource 212

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

People are demanding more and more experiential opportunities out of their leisure holidays. It's the first year that baby boomers have been eligible for retirement benefits, and there are people with discretionary income, even in these economic conditions, who are demanding these experiences. Talk about your VoIP network?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We sat down with Bruce Nash, founder of the sites, to learn more about the new service. What's the story behind the site and how you got into tracking Hollywood numbers? Back in 1997, when I started thee site, there was no one really doing box office tracking or movie financial tracking on the web.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2017

Use demand generation services , as required, to build the relationship and nurture them into paying customers. Focus your resources to convert prospects to customers. Build a plan with automation to manage the volume, but every customer has to feel like you are reaching out to them personally.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money. The number of current potential customers is large and growing. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Design a product or service that you can sell. So let’s take a look.

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Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 74

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2013

The second big part of this, is the user experience, the brand, and the customers. It''s all about being very simple, very honest, and very straightforward in how you treat the customer. There''s no continual upsell like you might encounter on other floral sites. It''s a pretty crowded space, with some pretty big players.

Services 215

Services Technical Review Startup Pricing 215

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2017

The best opportunities are recognized from painful needs, plus a growing population of customers with money to spend. The Internet is a business for transporting web services. It allows customers to complete their shopping in one place, and businesses get the value of volume and common processes.

Ideas 59

Ideas Startup Examples Entrepreneur 59

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

They point to YouTube as the big gorilla, but also social networking with video (Bebo), and video job sites (VisualCV). billion for the site in 2006. According to predictions and what I see on the many sites I have visited, there are still positives and negatives to consider: YouTube is already gigantic, so the interest is there.

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Hulu Social Network Blogging Netflix 84

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2013

You''ve seen the company''s work in the Superbowl, on television, and on the web, all for big brands--but you might not know it came out of the crowdsourcing efforts of Tongal (www.tongal.com). We caught up with James DeJulio , the company''s President and one of its co-founders, to hear about how the crowdsourced video site works.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

Patrick Kennedy: Our customers are very active using our technology and analytics as a solution to increase the content sales from all kinds of customers. So carriers are a major customer of yours? Patrick Kennedy: We have customers of different kinds. Patrick Kennedy: We have customers of different kinds.

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 Sunil Rajaraman: We provide free, web-based screenwriting software to aspiring writers and professionals in the community. By offering that software for free, we've attracted over 10,000 writers to our site. What's Scripped? That is the way to attract writers.

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

So there is likely robust demand from borrowers. Assistly “Multi-channel customer support and management service&# – this is another industry I love and I specifically love the team at Assistly. They have done 3 startups in the customer support space and one that wasn’t. Enter P2P lending. 5.0mm in Series C.

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