socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2009

Los Angeles-based Panache , a provider of advertising insertion technology for the online video market, said Monday that the firm is in a partnership with TVO, a media organization based in Ontario focused on public education. Panache said its technology will be used for interactive content enhancement, withing TVO's web games and video.

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Customer Custom Advertising Education 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2013

Customer service has always been reactionary, meaning someone has to wake up and answer website email requests. That’s just not savvy enough to hold today’s fickle, less loyal, and ready to jump customer. This exemplary customer service is just savvy marketing. Respect your customer’s view of usability.

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Customer Custom Services High Tech 89

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. Bolton, a distinguished Marketing Educator Award winner at the W.P.

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Services Social Media Technical Review Media 128

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Here are some key principles to consider in every case: Solve a significant problem for customers with money. Every sustainable business model has to attract paying customers and revenue, as well as provide something with significant economic or emotional value. Your assets need to be visible, real, and marketed online.

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Platform Startup Social Media Customer 145

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

You've got a great idea for a web video series, but how do you learn about how to make that happen, to get distribution, and monetize that video? Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. Michael Tringe: We are an online web series school.

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Web Content Startup Education 187

socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Weve started with dark web monitoring, and we are adding credit monitoring to help our users better control their digital identity. We successfully pivoted to a flexible workplace in 2020, which includes transitioning our 70-member Customer Care team to work from home in less than a week. Harrison earned a B.A.S. READ MORE>>.

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Technical Review Startup CIO Southern California 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2010

Santa Monica-based Tsavo Media , which is developing software which helps to make web sites more relevant to their visitors, announced today that it has added a new feature to match relevant stories with users on its Daymix information portal. Tags: tsavo media daymix customization personalization context relevant. READ MORE>>.

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Tsavo Santa Monica Sites Web 145

socalTECH

APRIL 11, 2013

I don''t know if you''ve heard, but it''s actually tough for music teachers, tutors, and others to truly find enough customers to pay their bills and keep them involved in their passions. The idea is that products have moved to the web in a big way. Who''s your ideal customer for this? You have probably heard it a hundred times.

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Startup Education Study Ideas 260

Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

Retail or end user web sites aren’t even noticed by potential users or customers without being discovered through a real marketing program, aimed at finding the flywheel effect (the moment of going viral that makes all the difference between failure and success.) Here is my list. First: Planning. Fifth: reaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2010

You hear a lot of talk these days about the importance of customer satisfaction, but customer loyalty is the real win. A satisfied customer is necessary, but not sufficient, to be a loyal customer who will come back repeatedly, refer their friends and family to you, and be faithful even when your price is not the lowest.

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Satisfaction Customer Custom Startup 49

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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Social Media Writing Ideas Resource 105

socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2008

Marina Del Rey-based Guidance Solutions said Monday that the firm has signed on Caltech's Industrial Relations Center as a customer. Guidance, which provides services for building ecommerce web sites, said that Caltech's IRC. which provides an online catalog of executive education courses, used the firm for a web site overhaul.

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Marina Del Rey CalTech Web Education 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2008

Marina Del Rey-based Guidance Solutions said Monday that the firm has signed on Caltech's Industrial Relations Center as a customer. Guidance, which provides services for building ecommerce web sites, said that Caltech's IRC. which provides an online catalog of executive education courses, used the firm for a web site overhaul.

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Marina Del Rey CalTech Software Web 100

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

Across the board, the whole company is very focused on the overall success of that program, to really drive the awareness and education in the market on those new TLDs, make it easier for people to get them, and not just letting them buy those TLDs, but helping them turn them into sites, blogs, and applications.

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Demand HTML Web Media 231

InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

The Lean Startup approach dictates that successful customer development is an iterative process. Eric (Ries) was a student in one of the very earliest customer development classes at Berkley. Customer development, in hindsight… was the first of… an emerging stack of entrepreneurial management tools.”. Preaching What You Live.

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Startup Class Press Custom Development 229

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Every time they did a distributed, web-based project, they realized they were reinventing the wheel. That means there are limits to how much it can scale, and deal with the kind of applications people need today for web applications, e-commerce applications, and cloud applications. What is your background?

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Startup Yahoo Software Education 198

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

We've now been operating for five months, and have become the leading web service for mobile fundraising in the country. What kinds of customers are using your service? We've gotten over 80 paying customers in our five months we've been deployed. What is mobile fundraising? Those donations are mobile initiated.

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Mobile Web Startup Customer 162

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. That''s when we started looking at credit repair, online education, and others.

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Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Startups should begin by selecting just a few of the vast array of social media offerings out there, and customize based on results. Ask yourself where are the influencers in your market, the majority of your target customers, and what type of interaction will be most productive to your business? Don’t forget the metrics and analytics.

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Social Media Media Startup Tips 108

Southern California Edison Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Educate team members about how to recognize and respond to phishing attempts. DDoS attempts happen when a cyberattacker floods a web server or network with traffic to overwhelm bandwidth to slow operations and disrupt regular communications. To prevent and limit the possible damage of these types of attacks,: .

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Startup Email Networking Southern California 96

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 22, 2012

By taking a page out of STEAM’s playbook, Stacksocial seeks to provide instant gratification to its customers by offering software bundles at a price that’s easy to get behind. Their Bundle categories consist of Music apps, Mac Productivity, Web Design and more.

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Software Web Design Pricing Course 84

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2009

But something happened during my Thanksgiving break that has me so extremely pissed off at the predatory practices of a financial institution the preys on the elderly, less educated and lower-income people that can least afford it. My research reveals that this known scam artist company has been duping customers for some time.

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Marketing Startup Education Class 263

Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. He ended up building a digital agency that did everything from custom apps and web development to branding and digital marketing. Education became a large facet within the space and focus for Taylor. Read more about virtual reality trends.

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Startup Web Development Design Education 70

Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

Investing in affordable education and training at all levels of society would prepare people for meaningful work, and provide compensation that could help reduce social inequities and divisiveness. In Sweden, citizens and entrepreneurs gladly pay taxes because of all the personal and social benefits those taxes produce. Need more convincing?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with e-commerce, your latest invention, or personal services. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day. Having a web site is necessary, but not sufficient. Content is king of the road.

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Social Media Content Startup Web 93

InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Fallacy: Startup ventures tend to evolve, especially after you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. In addition to paying the consultant, you must invest time to educate them. Rationale: My idea is so mind-blowingly fantastic that I must immediately spend some of my precious capital to protect it.

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Entrepreneur Outsource Ideas Technical Review 272

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. Bolton, a distinguished Marketing Educator Award winner at the W.P.

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Services Social Media Technical Review Media 54

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. We've basically taken advantage of all the new technology out there--especially, the web-based service model.

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Education Startup Course Tool 124

Eric Greenspan

MAY 7, 2013

Their influence is strongest in the area of child education, products aimed at children or parents, parenting, and many other family oriented industries. About me: I’m a dad, a social research marketer, customer service champion, closet chef, TEDster. If you sell into these markets, here’s what you should consider: 1.

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IBM IBM Email Research 154

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2015

The Canadian documentary filmmaker Brett Gaylor wants to educate you on just how much the web knows about you in his informative seven-part interactive docu-series Do Not Track that debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival as part of the transmedia Storyscapes showcase. Gaylor isn’t trying to scare users, rather educate and inform.

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Web Education Startup Platform 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. with the clips.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

We have about 8500 customers there, but only a small percentage have built great communities that took off, and the rest floundered. That's why we built FanMix, to solve our own problem, and help our SocialEngine customers to promote their own sites. The most attractive thing about it was the educational value.

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Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2014

It''s a web based controller, which gives you direct access to the system with their phones or browser. We see our customers as people who are concerned about water consumption, are not happy with controllershat are difficult to understand and manage, and basically are clumsy. What your product all about?

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Demand Startup Southern California Marketing 258

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

One, is with cause marketing, engaging your customers around causes; second, is employee engagement around causes, and the last is corporate social responsibility, companies working with vendors or other folks they work with, and the public in general. Ryan Scott: We focus on a couple of things. We like to call ourselves a cause integrator.

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Causecast Startup Content Education 222

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

He is the author of various best selling books including Practical Information Architecture, Web Dogma ’06 and Usable Usability. Attending his speaking events is not only educational and useful to your business but it has often been described as very comical and entertaining. Reiss is a world-renowned usability expert.

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Culver City Design Content Writing 105

socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

We are an online ordering platform, that helps restaurants enhance their web presence and the profitability of their brand. Our early adopters were really about developing a minimum viable product, and we figured out, obviously, that there were a number of features customers were willing to pay for. What is Clorder?

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Cornerstone OnDemand Startup Social Media Outsource Development 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

8:17 How did you decide to go with either shrinkwrap or web only product? 57: 00 How do you rectify company mission and customer demand. 1:09:50 We need education! Timecodes: 00:00 Welcome, our guest is Eric Ries, founder of the Lean Startup Movement. 00:45 Intro to Eric. 01:17 Background, before the Lean Startup.

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Social Media Startup Metrics Media 301