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Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies

SoCal Delicious

marketing, and not enough of the traditional, software-and-algorithm intensive startups you'd expect to see in Silicon Valley. We've identified ten of the more technically interesting companies working on software in Southern California, using our unscientific, unproven, and undoubtedly biased informal polling. Retention Science.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

As noted in Pour and Stir Part I , the key to the successful execution of this strategy is managing the following equation: The cost to acquire a customer < lifetime value of a customer. Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. This is equivalent to being handed a free customer for every ten customers you acquire.

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Interview with Dan LeBlanc, CEO and Co-founder, Daasity

socalTECH

The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms. Maybe they might be using a platform like Shopify to sell their products and power their website, and they might use Facebook for advertising, and maybe they're using paid search with Google.

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Interview with Robert Blatt, MomentFeed

socalTECH

Robert Blatt: We say to people that we do customer experience for multi-location brands. Our platform enables them to manage the digital representation of their locations, and engage with consumers in paid, social, and search, to improve that customer experience. So what does your customer look like nowadays? ,p>

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. Bill had previously created a packaged software company called Knowledge Adventure the produced children’s educational software. He turned his accounting software into a product he could see.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

InfoChachkie

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. We spend a lot of time listening to our customers and working with them to build the right solutions.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Sean Murphy on the first dozen enterprise customers - Gabriel Weinberg , September 8, 2010 I recently did a Traction Book interview with Sean Murphy who runs a boutique cutomer development firm in Silicon Valley. We discussed (for ~1hr) how to approach getting the first set of enterprise customers. Want to start up in France?

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