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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socalTECH

AUGUST 14, 2014

E-commerce giant Amazon.com is expanding in Southern California, saying today that it is opening up a new, fulfillment center in Redlands, to help deliver large items to customers. The new fulfillment center is the company''s fifth, and comes on top of existing centers in San Bernardino, Moreno Valley, Patterson and Tracy.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

In this short clip below, Nanea emphasizes this important point – if you create a product customers love, it will ultimately be a good business decision as well. There is a tangible understand that comes from engineers talking with real customers that simply can’t be gleaned from intuition or staring at computer screens.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2013

Excellent customer service isn’t just something that happens from company to consumer. Customer service starts within a company. We all know about Zappos customer culture and their willingness to stay on a call with a customer for up to 10 hours. It’s the same effect you want on your customers.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The service--which allows users to screen their voicemails, provide custom voicemail greetings to specific callers, transcribe their voicemails to text, and much more--said it actually passed the milestone earlier this summer. YouMail providesa a suite of tools to help users manage their mobile phone calls.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

In designing GUI interfaces for people coming from the green-screen world we built applications that would be great for desktop publishing, not customer service reps. You can always hide complexity into configuration screens rather than the out-of-the-box features.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2013

Los Angeles-based 3D movie projection technology provider RealD announced an expanded agreement with a Chinese company today, to install an additional 50 screens across Northern China. RealD said it has reached an agreement with UME International Cineplex, one of its existing customers, to add an additional 50 cinema screens.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 30, 2019

Now, he designs those systems for the real world through his company Oblong Industries , which has labored to create a full stack of collaborative tools for business users that are every bit as high-tech as the one’s Underkoffler dreamt for the silver screen. “We’re thrilled to bring.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2009

.&# They know instinctually how customers buy and how to excite them. Because they’re street smart, most great entrepreneurs tend to prefer getting out and talking with real customers rather than sitting in a cubicle all day doing beautiful PowerPoint slides. Help me understand which you prefer.&# I lost zero customers.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2013

According to Comcast Business, AnyMeeting is now available as part of its Upware marketplace, which features cloud-based business products for its customers. Anymeeting will bring such features as video conferencing, audio conferencing, screen and presentaiton sharing, as well as other tools to Comcast Business'' customers.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 11, 2015

In my case as a young software entrepreneur, I had a different approach: Fail Locally, one customer at a time. You just had to be lucky, write reasonably good code and land in an industry with some legs, and of course, treat the customer well. And I would learn customer service. In this way I learned a great deal.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

Customers have long included some of the biggest names in social commerce and online gaming plus startups like TopSpin, Local Response, Maker Studios, StockTwits and the like. The other major pilot customer was. Here’s a screen shot of my home page on awe.sm. I have been using the basic awe.sm No brainer.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

YouMail''s service provides custom voicemail mailboxes, call screening, voicemail transcription, and much more to both business and home users. The company said the new feature lets users annotate important messages in the system, and comes as part of a big update to help fix bugs, crashes, and other issues in the company''s app.

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Berkonomics

MAY 4, 2017

Those deemed critical to you and your managers should be combined into a single page on your desktop screen or in printed form and available or circulated as often as daily. [Email readers, continue here…] Metrics should be created by you and your managers to measure near real time progress for your enterprise.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Los Angeles-based Gumiyo (www.gumiyo.com) has been developing mobile websites for SMBs and publishers for a number of years, and recently started to offer up self-service tools to make it easy for those customers to create cross-device mobile websites. Customers are looking for something that works. That created two things for us.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Software as a service (SaaS) is a popular business model because it facilitates the delivery of incremental value to customers, while allowing the vendor to adjust their prices over time. However, such price increases generally occur after new utility has been provided to the customers. Focus on Existing Customers.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

ReachSite helps provide search engine optimization, content optimization, and lead capture for companies, to help companies convert visitors into customers. That new service also has pre-negotiated prices, and the vendors are pre-screened and background checked. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. Nobody wants to read your text on a big screen. don’t turn around and read the screen. Show some energy!

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2013

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of cloud-based, customer relationship management and contact management software, has debuted a new dashboard feature, the firm announced Tuesday.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. Nobody wants to read your text on a big screen. Have a PowerPoint deck with screen shots that you can walk through.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

service allows its customers to access its panel of screened and vetted survey respondents in real time, and will be available in beta in December. uSamp provides an online service to help customers conduct market research, surveys, and other research. The firm said the self-service SampleMarket 2.0 READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 20, 2013

Pixicle, a photo sharing device that makes it easy for users to view photos with their friends and family on the big screen instead of the frustrating smartphone screen passed around the room has raised $10K of its $38K Indiegogo goal to make photo viewing less strenuous. Brandon is a co-founder and our lead developer.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

Traction can simply mean showing that you’re making progress with customers, product development, channel partners, initial revenue as a proof point, attracting well-known angel investors, winning industry awards / recognition. Keep on the radar screen – I know the VC’s seemed to love you when they met you.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The firm said the new app allows customers to design and build prototypes of applications, without requirements for coding or scripting of any kind. iRise's products are used by companies to mock up screen layouts and inputs for actual applications, to make it easier to develop.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

It makes it easier to persuade others to join you, it alerts other angels & VCs that you’re a company to be on their radar screen, it helps potential customers know that you may be worth doing business with and it builds you up to announce other milestones down the line. Should I Bundle it With More Juicy News?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

The software is used by Topspin's customers to scan tickets sold through Topspin's software. Topspin said the new application allows users to scan both paper and smart-phone screen tickets and supports multiple scanners, among other updates. The firm said the update will be available to its users for free.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2011

You will be controlled by your customers, investors, lenders – and you are personally responsible for answering to all of them, all of the time. Say hello to multiple new bosses. When you start your own business, you are no longer in control. You will likely not have the freedom you dreamed of. Evaluate how well you work with others.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

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. If you want to get a quick sense of the app there’s a short screen cast here that make it obvious what it does. With smart phones everybody does.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Boingo said the addition of the new payment option will enable an "express lane" for customers who want access but don't want to enter account information, and is particularly aimed at better supporting mobile devices with limited screen space. Boingo also accepts credit cards, an iTunes account, and Skype credit. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2014

Los Angeles-based Ebyline , which operates an online marketplace for freelance writers, said today that it has begun offering up a seven day, free trial to prospective customers. Unlike generic content-mill websites, Ebyline has focused on experienced journalists, writers, photographers, and video producers, who the company screens.

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socalTECH

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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of customer relationship management and contact management software, said today that it has linked its app into social media management service Hootsuite.

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2012

San Diego-based Skinit , the developer of the wrap-around, customized "skins" and protective products for electronics devices, announced today that it has expanded into hard consumer electronics cases, covers, and screen protectors. The new devices features the same ability to apply personalized graphics and designs to the cases.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2012

I use my desktop when I need the screen real estate or processing power. I would be working on my iMac, and head out to a customer site, but I'd forget to sync things or put those files in Dropbox. We don't want to worry about synchronizing things, we just want to use our devices or whatever screen is convenient.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Those who are more involved in traditional entertainment are seeing a major shift online which is why an additional one-day seminar was created to coincide with Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood as a partnership called, Idea to Screen. The staff is very helpful and provides great customer service too. Same with CreatorUp. See you there!

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2009

The two firms said the joint venture would streamline media buying for customers. Both companies operated their own network of display screens at gas stations, which run news clips, advertising, and other content. Tags: outcast pumptop adtekmedia advertising station network video screen merger acquisition.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

Los Angeles-based RealD , a provider of 3D theater projection technology, has signed on theater firm AMC Entertainment as a customer of the firm. According to AMC and RealD, AMC is set to deploy up to 1,500 RealD 3D screens in the US and Canada. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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