TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Mojiit, the Los Angeles-based company behind the popular avatar generation service Mojichat, has landed one of its highest-profile users with the launch of Odell Beckham Jr.’s Disrespect , he turned to Mojichat to create the pop-up onscreen emote that danced above a logo from Scuf Gaming , a retailer of customized controllers.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2013

AnyMeeting , the small business web conferencing service which is backed by the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, Maverick Angels, Sand Hill Angels and Keiretsu Forum, has linked with Comcast Business, the company said Thursday. anymeeting free conference call meeting service comcast business' READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Unfortunately, in mature companies, a larger and larger percentage of employees forget company survival and customers as the objectives, and focus only on their own personal gain. Risks to the business drift off their radar screen, resulting in poor business decisions, as well as less job satisfaction and declining professional success.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

YouMail , the provider of the advanced voicemail applications and services, reported this week that it has passed five million, registered users of its service.

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Screening Tool Mobile Report 183

Xconomy

AUGUST 28, 2018

San Francisco-based Puls, founded in 2015, offers to dispatch technicians quickly to a customer’s home or office to replace malfunctioning parts, mount a widescreen TV on the wall, or install smart home devices such as security systems, voice-activated assistants, and Internet-connected thermostats. The 24/7 service operates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2023

For example, consider CVS Health's Project Health program, which directed teams to provide free health screenings to disadvantaged and underserved patient populations. Test specifics and potential on friends, advisors, and potential customers. Measure customer value perception at every stage.

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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. READ MORE>>. youmail voicemail notes telephone enhanced call'

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2015

Instead, expeditiously pick a reasonable moniker and then get back to work delivering value to your customers. Expertcity was initially named to reflect the company’s “marketplace for services,” which enabled independent, global experts to directly access customers’ computers and fix their technical problems.

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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. READ MORE>>. nimble hootsuite social media management contact sales software saas'

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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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Xconomy

AUGUST 15, 2018

GreatCall operates a virtual mobile telecommunications network for a customers base of more than 900,000 elderly consumers. The company also sells gadgets, such as mobile devices with large screens and big buttons, wearables that can work with those devices, and emergency alert products. Minnesota-based Best Buy (NYSE: BBY.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

. “Cognitive computing,” artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced data analytics are evolving companies’ understanding of their customers in game-changing ways. The Device-Agnostic Customer Experience. Through screen mirroring, users have greater flexibility over how they view – and share – content.

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Artificial Inteligence Screening Google Customer 106

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Hiring requirements must be anticipated and implemented with the same precision and tracking as manufacturing volumes, sales leads, and customer service. Trying to save costs by seeking resumes on the Internet will result in poor quality candidates, more time required for screening and interviews, and high turnover.

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Organization Satisfaction Entrepreneur Screening 104

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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Software products and apps can be quickly wire-framed with free tools such as MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product.

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Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 110

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.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 9, 2013

Qwerty is here to stay, but the touch screen keyboard needs a serious redesign. Why do we even need to touch the screen? We need a keyboard that is above the screen, projected, with bigger buttons. This frees up a ton of screen real estate so we can make keys larger and further apart. Keyboard idea 1. Keyboard idea 2.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Los Angeles-based Boingo Wireless , which operates a global network of Wi-Fi hotspots, said today that it is now accepting PayPal for purchases of its Wi-Fi access service plans. Boingo also accepts credit cards, an iTunes account, and Skype credit.

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Screening Los Angeles Mobile Networking 133

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Unfortunately, in mature companies, a larger and larger percentage of employees forget company survival and customers as the objectives, and focus only on their own personal gain. Risks to the business drift off their radar screen, resulting in poor business decisions, as well as less job satisfaction and declining professional success.

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Satisfaction Organization Customer Custom 124

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

It's a concierge service, which helps individuals and plans throughout the year. Instead of just enrolling people in a plan and saying good luck, see you later once a year, we also provide a concierge service that is unheard of in health insurance. What that didn't do, is help the customer. What was next?

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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. They will get you interest from investors and lenders, and you will receive better financing, prices, terms, and conditions from business suppliers and professional services.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2019

It’s high time we kill the term Software As A Service (SaaS) and call it what it is – software. In the early 2000’s, my software startup was dubbed an Application Service Provider (ASP). If the software does not reside on our customers’ servers, we won’t sell it.”. You’re not a SaaS entrepreneur, you’re a software entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2020

Hiring requirements must be anticipated and implemented with the same precision and tracking as manufacturing volumes, sales leads, and customer service. Trying to save costs by seeking resumes on the Internet will result in poor quality candidates, more time required for screening and interviews, and high turnover.

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Organization Satisfaction Entrepreneur Screening 135

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In an era, where every single streaming music service seems to be the same thingindistinguishable from each otherhow do they differentiate and create customer loyalty? Cricket Wireless had us design, develop, and operate that platform, which was one of the first subscription music services built into your home.

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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.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Entangled Media , one of the startups out of the current class at MuckerLab , has developed Younity (www.getyounity.com), a service which hopes to do just that--make your files available from anywhere. Erik Caso: Younity creates a personal cloud for all of your files, built from your devices, and over time, your online services.

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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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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In an era, where every single streaming music service seems to be the same thingindistinguishable from each otherhow do they differentiate and create customer loyalty? Cricket Wireless had us design, develop, and operate that platform, which was one of the first subscription music services built into your home.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Software products and apps can be quickly wire-framed with free tools such as MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product.

Outsource Development 124

Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 124

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

We spent a year (2012-2013) building a merchant acquisition machine and all of the systems to support bookings, calendar integrations, location services, etc. 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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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Streaming services are designed to be easy – open an app, hit play, and you’re pretty much just where you want to be. But the latest range of streaming services also offer a lot of customization options…even if they are hidden from view. Frankly, you are far better off getting HBO through any other type of service first.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2014

With around a hundred employees in Los Angeles, and $40M in revenues, Fonality (www.fonality.com) --a developer of voice-over-IP phone software and systems--has managed to rise above the crowd of commodity voice-over-IP and PBX service providers. Who is the idea customer for you? It has won us tremendous loyalty with our customer.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 24, 2020

Extra precautions have been taken because of the outbreak, including frequent disinfecting of work spaces and requiring workers to wear masks and undergo regular temperature screenings, according to the company. Polestar will only sell its vehicles online and will offer customers subscriptions to the vehicle.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2018

Anyone who has ever bought or sold a home is most likely familiar with the Multiple Listings Service (MLS), the big database of homes for sale used by traditional real estate agents. Where is the company now in terms of the service? However, is it better to skip the MLS (and agent) entirely the next time you sell your home?

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Southern California Edison Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

were denial of service (DOS) attacks. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks. The software can take several forms, including screen lockers, encryption ransomware, and doxware. . In the past year, 42% of small businesses experienced a cyberattack. Those incidents took several forms: . were phishing attacks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

Unfortunately, in mature companies, a larger and larger percentage of employees forget company survival and customers as the objectives, and focus only on their own personal gain. Risks to the business drift off their radar screen, resulting in poor business decisions, as well as less job satisfaction and declining professional success.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2015

Yet too often, entrepreneurs embrace giving away their products and services for the wrong reason - they are simply reticent to ask for payment. During the height of the Dotcom craziness, Expertcity (creator of GoToMeeting, acquired by Citrix) released a free service called BuddyHelp. Ways To Make Freemium Users Pay.

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