socalTECH

JULY 27, 2012

How to you better convert web visitors into customers? Jerry Jao, the CEO of Retention Science, tells us how the firm is using big data to help e-commerce firms convert more customers. Jerry Jao: Retention Science is a Big Data and e-commerce platform, where we help engage customers. That allows us to bring on several, Ph.D.

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MAY 6, 2015

I would be super grateful if you would visit the site and sign up for a newsletter if you felt so inclined. We are a customer. If you’re an LP and want to know who these emerging funds are please call me and/or attend our Annual VC Summit. You were right, Alex , he is a superstar. Thank you for the referral! And we are huge fans.

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

Today they announced the mobile version of their product – I’d be grateful if you would download it and give it a spin. I am stunned at the speed at which the team cranked out this application while at the same time building out an entire suite of merchant solutions to help them better manage customers.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2010

We do that by etching a diffraction grating to the bottom surface of the diamond. The effect is similar to the brilliant color flashes you see on the bottom side of a compact disc, which also functions as a diffraction grating. Now, we see you actually have paying customers for this technology? Paul Gloger: Absolutely.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 25, 2015

Be grateful: Be grateful for your friends and family, be grateful to your teammates, be grateful to your customers and your clients, be grateful to your community. We were not the biggest school or the best school, but our coach had the heart of John Wooden and always said, “Be your best”.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 25, 2015

Be grateful: Be grateful for your friends and family, be grateful to your teammates, be grateful to your customers and your clients, be grateful to your community. We were not the biggest school or the best school, but our coach had the heart of John Wooden and always said, “Be your best”.

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MAY 19, 2018

Your historical trading information including financials and a “customer file” which shows the history of your transactions so that investors can run “cohort” analyses Customer reference, personal references, key team members, compensation, cap table, stock option plan, etc. I’d be grateful if you could prioritize it.

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MARCH 28, 2010

And having frameworks is a useful way to standardize your customer studies so that highly intelligent, inexperienced young people can crank out PowerPoint slides with such authority and beautiful consistency. You helped me and I am grateful. To this gentleman I’m grateful for the feedback and I’m here to help if I can.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Under Rob’s tenure DataSift grew to 10’s of millions in recurring revenue, signed up more than 1,000 enterprise customers, raised > $60 million in venture capital, hired more than 100 employees and has become one of the fastest growing SaaS companies in the industry. So the next chapter of DataSift is underway.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I remember feeling grateful that Jeff had that access. I’m typing this from SFO right now after just attending an executive offsite set up by Motorola and some of their largest retail customers. on a regular basis for a variety of reasons and Jeff was able to make sure it was a conversation point. Ultimately Yahoo!

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. My blog was wiped out.

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APRIL 21, 2010

I’m always grateful when people point them out. 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.

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MAY 26, 2011

I’ve made every excuse to myself in the past, “I can’t fire him now, he owns the customer relationships and it’s a crucial point in our sales process.” Delaying the inevitable is not going to make things smoother with your investors, biz dev partners, customers or employees. No startup company has any spare capacity for dead weight.

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JULY 24, 2016

And management is mostly grateful to have it over to “get back to focusing on the business.” A board meeting shouldn’t be the place an investor questions why you’re focused on customers A and not customers B. Still, this is how 70% of board meetings are run. These are tactics — not strategy.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

The promised to follow up with: calls, using your product, talking to customers or “noodle on things.&# Will they? You would never go see an important executive at a customer and then sit around and wait for them to realize how great you are. Or maybe you had a major customer win that you’d like to walk them through.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

What Nimble is, is a web-based solution that unified contact, calendar, and the way you communicate with those people, which also integrates social listening and engagement, all in a single place, so you can attract and retain the right customers. Why did you decide to again set your sights on contact management?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

So we are finding so many different ways on how people want to use this product and different types of customers that want to use it. We are grateful for all the backers and for those who are just excited about the product that share our campaign through social media. DM: Your customers make your company.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2016

Chief Labs Officer and Co-Founder of WIoTW, Mr. Kyle Ellicott added, “I cannot wait to see the synergy that is sure to unfold with our first class of startups in Hong Kong, and we are truly grateful for the enthusiasm and support of the Hong Kong SAR Government, Radiant Venture Capital and our local partners.”.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Now up: Craig Ogg Co-Founder Freshly Grated Software former VP of R&D, Stamps.com Have had to make choices about platforms many times. Benefit of a proprietary platform can be finding customers. Only guarantee for longevity is if you have options. This is certainly one of the big concerns I expressed above. I would tend to agree.

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APRIL 3, 2010

They were grateful for the extra money as their launch was overwhelmingly successful and they had to rapidly hire staff to support customer demand. I knew the team for 2 years and had tracked their company through to pre-launch. We funded it just before they took the wrappers off of the company.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Alex gives us insights on their non-traditional order of hiring, once they’d decided they strongly needed to add members to the team: Their first hire was Sachi Kobayashi, their community manager, customer support, and general externally-facing link to the community. And for those like me, who consider Plug.DJ

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MAY 1, 2010

They mostly understand your company, your customers, your competitors and your market but never as precisely as you do. Here’s what I recommend: Create a Google spreadsheet listing your top customer prospects, biz dev prospects and other companies you would like to meet. That’s it. Most VC’s want to help.

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MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. A key deal not only helps you raise venture capital but it can help attract employees, garner press attention, help with product focus & importantly drive customer adoption and/or revenue.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Alarming IT data points - deal architect , August 25, 2010 I am grateful for plenty of positive coverage my book has received. Even so, it’s difficult (and perhaps impossible) to operate a small business or startup and not negotiate agreements with employees, vendors, customers, and others. I've funded some myself. Know Your Objective.

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MARCH 1, 2010

He was grateful since I stuck with my first company, BuildOnline, well beyond when others would have (since I had taken great dilution during the dot com burst.). He was grateful since I stuck with my first company, BuildOnline, well beyond when others would have (since I had taken great dilution during the dot com bust.).

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