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JUNE 6, 2013

As part of the launch into the Bay Area, ClubLocal said its first 1,000 customers will get $100 in free home services to try out the new service. ClubLocal pre-screens the service providers it refers consumers to, include running background checks and tracking the experience of users with those providers.

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MAY 30, 2012

One way is getting funding from your potential customers. They're raising money from friends, family, customers, equity from strategic partners, and former colleagues. The best way is through customers, the other way is through equity. However, it's an idea with a prototype, and a great customer capital deal.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

OpenX said that publishers usings its OpenX Market and OpenX Ad Server will be able to use Microsoft's Content Ads, and that Microsoft will refer potential customers to OpenX. Financial details of the advertising technology partnership were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 4, 2011

This product is built out of love, and we continue to craft it because we want to create a great experience for our customers. The difference between Namesake and lots of other companies today, is we think about the customer first. But, there's a second revolution happening, which is the customer revolution.

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AUGUST 10, 2012

A digital marketing tag is typically also referred to as a page code, which customers put on their websites when they want to deploy certain digital marketing solutions. As an example, if you're deploying Google Analytics, the way you deploy it is copying and pasting a page code on your website, also referred to as a tag.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

There's a great animated video which references the classic Soylent Green movie ending, how did that come about? It just really hit it on the nose that we're plant-based, but also works so well as a reference to the movie. I know your first customers used to be the techies and coders, what does your user base look like now?

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Fortunately, the Director of Global Customer Experience at Google, became our first investor, so we could start and figure out the content problem for small and medium businesses. One of the keys to solving the content problem, is to be able to find an approach to service customers, without dedicating a ton of account management resources.

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MAY 28, 2015

Los Angeles-based HelloTech (www.hellotech.com) wants to be the service that you refer all of your friends and family to, instead--by offering up low cost, on-demand, in-home technical support. It's not some brand new category where you're a startup hoping to find paying customers. That resonated with a lot of people I talked to.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

For today's profile, we decided to talk with Taher Scherzay , Founder of FavRav (www.FavRav.com), a Los Angeles-based firm which has created a Facebook application to help small businesses find customers through social media, and also allow consumers to better tap the referral network of their friends. A lot of it was around stability.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

Bryce Maddock: TaskUs is the best provider in the world of customer care and back office services for emerging growth companies. Customer care, obviously, is emails, phone calls, and customer service back office services. Bryce Maddock: We''re fortunate enough to work with a vast majority of today''s most successful startups.

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APRIL 18, 2017

They love our service, because we actually give them direct access to who their exact target customer is, which is affluent Millennials, which Nelson refers to as Upscale Millennials, who have good jobs, and don't live in their parents' basement. There are so many more brands and competition. Sean Kelly: Oh, that's a big one.

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MARCH 19, 2014

Is there a specific kind of customer who most benefits from your softare? Mark Faggiano: Our typical customers are e-commerce merchants, folks that sell online for a living, or have an e-commerce presence as part of their current business. The customers we are going after are largely ignored when it comes to compliance.

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JANUARY 26, 2010

Russell Stern: Most semiconductor companies have to have to do board designs anyway, for reference designs, and to further qualify them, certify them, and get them through agency approvals. What that gives our customers, is a great edge in performance. What a customer wants is to just have much better Ethernet and UDP multicast.

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JULY 16, 2012

I like to refer to that as the ultimate brand fan page, or to take the example from the apparel industry, where I come from, a virtual look book for a brand. Customers, fans, and buyers can get a brand's essence, their personality, and vibe, in one, visual display. That's where the initial idea for Fliptu came about.

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Social Media Media Social Network Seed Funding 268

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JULY 31, 2013

The firm recently raised a $15M series C funding, and we caught up with Kevin to learn more about why its customers, and investors, are interested in its technology. What''s the gap in the market which would make your technology important to your customers? What does OnRamp Wireless do? Kevin Hell: That''s a great question.

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Technical Review Software Review Networking Technology 213

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

They have a huge customer base, and it's a great growth opportunities. We also continue to sell to our existing customers, and we are growing out that business with agencies and brands. Gabe Gottlieb: Pathmatics is in the name, and that refers to how we understand how ads are delivered across channels.

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Bertelsmann Advertising Startup Santa Monica 100

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JULY 15, 2015

However, our customers, even with Concur, find those solutions didn't meet all of their needs. We gained quite a number of customers very rapidly, and have 60 percent of the global top 100 legal firms in the world now using our system. Chrome River is picking up a number of those customers.

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Software Report Startup IBM 100

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

There are lots of transaction costs which occur both on acquisition of customers and on returns, and those costs are real, and must be considered in how we price the products. I refer to it as a nuclear reactor, and sits at a center of a business, and guides it and drives it from an energy standpoint. It's very strategic.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

Every contractor in our network goes through a very thorough vetting process, and we meet with every one of them in person, speak to their references, to make sure they are hardworking, reliable, and trustworthy. I've been very focused on customer experience and solving problems, for everything from homeowners to large organizations.

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OCTOBER 24, 2013

How difficult has it been to get your customers to understand the exposure with SMS? Some of the first customers we had were in obstetrics. Having that support is a huge, important thing to unlock lots of growth in our customer base. Brad Brooks: You''d be amazed at the amount of information transmitted.

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Yammer Startup Mobile Organization 229

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DECEMBER 2, 2013

Nelson Paez : For the past four years, Dreamhammer has been developing a software product called BALLISTA, which is what we refer to as a drone operating system. Nelson Paez : Our strategy was, before releasing our product to the general public, to release it to our military and intelligence customers. What''s Dreamhammer?

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Startup Software Southern California Santa Monica 183

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MAY 10, 2017

We've built this business for our customers, on both side of the marketplace. We did that instead of building an , which doesn't allow our customers to take action like text. Text messaging is one of the best communications mediums for our demographic of businesses and workers.

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Startup Orange County Platform Capital 100

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JANUARY 2, 2014

Michael Chasin: The most challenging part of any startup is getting in front of people, and finding customers. Every single one of our clients who has used us, whether they''ve hired a lawyer or not, loves the product, and they are referring it to family and friends. It turns out lawyers are pretty easy to find.

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Help Startup CTO Hire Pricing 240

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MAY 7, 2012

By prints, I am referring to anything that hangs on a wall, whether that's a framed photo, framed canvas, acrylic. myself and two women who do customer service and tech support for me via phone and email. If you're a photographer or artist, what's the easiest way to display, print, frame, and sell your photos or artwork to.

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Santa Monica Pricing Sites Sales 258

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APRIL 7, 2011

Within that have own custom cabinet shop, our own metal shop, make our own furniture, and as an offshoot of that, started exploring developing modular, prefab homes in 2005. We're somewhat vertically integrated. That's developed into new business in and of it self.

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Santa Monica Venture Capital Anthem Design 190

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MARCH 5, 2012

It's really about providing a customized approach, and the best experience for both the dog and dog owners. We do phone interviews, and check references for lots of our hosts. What makes us different from a Craiglist with a checkout button, is we also offer protection to customers. How did the company come about?

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Technical Review Startup Sites Malibu 164

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MARCH 5, 2012

It's really about providing a customized approach, and the best experience for both the dog and dog owners. We do phone interviews, and check references for lots of our hosts. What makes us different from a Craiglist with a checkout button, is we also offer protection to customers. How did the company come about?

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Technical Review Startup Sites Malibu 160

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JULY 20, 2009

We provide three lines of service, one is called Developer Advice, which is not a common service out there--where customers can have confidential discussions with our architects through a secure forum, so that they're not posting specifics about their customers or projects publicly. Australia, and Italy.

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IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

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APRIL 27, 2009

You don't even have to have the dog, you could be as early as--I have this idea, or I need to finish my prototype, or need to commercialize or get my first couple of customers. That's the stage where we get involved.

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Santa Barbara Entrepreneur Funding Invest 124

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Chandler Williamson: The technology we have is generally referred to as a high speed, flywheel system. This was deployed at some customer sites, was it not? (Photo courtesy KTSi: left, Dick Newark, middle, Rudy Lautz, right, Chandler Williamson). Let's talk about the technology first, and how it works?

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Design Training Southern California Outsource Development 138

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

ANTHEM is referred to, depending on what segment you're looking at, as either a community gateway or social networking gateway. The second customer is the social networking sites. Historically, for us and our partners, you would merchandise the service out to customers, and you had the issue of how do they find it.

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Social Network Anthem Mobile Java 113

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JUNE 27, 2011

Ultimately, that will provide an opportunity to involve those brands in our world, while giving them an avenue to help their customers achieve their goals and dreams. This gives you some idea, and there actually might be a lot of people you might be able to help accomplish their dreams, either by referring them to others or encouraging them.

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Startup Ideas Southern California Social Network 197

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JULY 9, 2010

This was kind of the pre-days of the Internet, back when Mosaic was the browser of choice, and it wasn't even referred to as the Internet--people just knew it as Mosaic. Greg Siegel: We're trying to deliver the best experience as possible for our customers. So what's the next big goal for your firm?

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