SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Ticket tracking?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Ticket tracking?

Develop 384

Develop Development Startup SEO 384

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JUNE 29, 2010

Westlake Village-based FavRav is hoping to leverage the popularity of social networking site Facebook to help local businesses find new customers. According to FavRav, it has launched a new social media tool targeted at small businesses, to help those businesses generate referrals from existing customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2022

Many entrepreneurs think that adapting to the new technologies, like smart phones and Internet commerce, are the key to attracting new customers. In fact, businesses need to adapt even more completely to the changes in the buying and social behavior of consumers. Authority – the guiding light. Marty Zwilling.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of customer relationship management and contacts management software headed by Goldmine Software founder Jon Ferrara, looks to be shifting its sights to paid, business accounts. Nimble said it plans on releasing the new version in January of next year.

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Santa Monica Social Network Competition Software 213

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the online, customer relationship management (CRM) tool developer, has tied with Simi Valley-based TeamAutomation , a business and IT consulting firm focused on customer relationship management tools. Financial details and business arrangement between the two companies was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica Social Network Tool Customer 174

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Nimble's web-based software lets users track all of their interaction with a customer or client, including emails, social networking activity, phone calls, and more. The firm has been looking to bring contact management into the web-based, social age with its software.

Web 219

Web Social Network News Google 219

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JANUARY 23, 2013

If you are a millenial entering the workforce, what would you be most comfortable with -- a tool designed to work and look like a social network, or a tool built around an old fashioned corporate enterprise software UI? PromoJam debuted its brand new, self-service version of its social promotions tool today, PromoJam 2.0,

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MARCH 4, 2013

Nimble , the developer of customer relationship management software, said today that it has launched a program for startups, which will offer up a free year of its service. The company said the effort is part of an effort to both support the startup community--as well as connect with future integration partners. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Santa Monica-based customer relationship management (CRM) software developer Nimble is looking to bolster its customer base in the nonprofit sector, saying that it has started to offer a 30 percent discount on its service to nonprofits, for life. contact track sales management relationship customer nonprofit pricing nimble'

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 13, 2010

iSkoot Technologies includes substantially all of the assets of San Francisco-based iSkoot, a developer of social networking and Skype-compatible voice-over-IP software for mobile phones. Tags: qualcomm iskoot merger acquisition mobile software skype social networking. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

Social Network 157

Social Network Software Review Technical Review IP 157

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JULY 16, 2012

With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks.

Social Media 268

Social Media Media Social Network Seed Funding 268

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2022

Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. Young people naively enter their pictures and personal data for fun on social networking sites, ignoring constant feedback from the media that these are bad practices. Don’t take shortcuts on these.

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Customer Custom Technical Review Symantec 137

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

Los Angeles-based Passenger , a developer of private social networking sites for brands, said today that it has raised an additional $7.5M Passenger's private social networking communities are used by companies to gain insight into their brands, get customer feedback, and to help market their products. READ MORE>>.

Steamboat Ventures 145

Steamboat Ventures Social Network Venture Capital Networking 145

Berkonomics

MAY 30, 2019

Using new tools in a social age. There are several ways to do this effectively, including the use of social networks to create buzz, seeding product acceptance through early adopters or celebrities, or by creating a small niche market that shows unusual acceptance and more. That story can be in print or in multimedia form.

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socalTECH

MAY 4, 2011

We started with the initial idea of building vertical, B-to-B social environments, and soon figured out that was a terrible idea. Dan and I, my co-founder, obviously have social networking and advertising backgrounds. And, it is a social network. A social network without people is an oxymoron.

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APRIL 24, 2013

Greenspan said the goal of the new company is to build an automated system that taps into social networks to find customers, based on their online presence: for example, if a user complains on Facebook that they are unhappy with their current Internet service, the firm promises to help deliver that customer to a telecom or cable provider.

Santa Barbara 190

Santa Barbara Social Network Examples Marketing 190

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2014

Young entrepreneurs often are so excited by new technology or their latest invention that they forget to translate it into a value proposition that their customers or potential investors can understand. Customer data integrity and security. business customer values entrepreneur startup technology solution'

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2010

LifeOffice said the solution is geared toward addressing recent FINRA regulations on communications by securities firms and brokers on those social networking sites.

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Torrance Social Media Social Network Web 202

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2013

According to SendUs, brands and companies can use its video platform to request specific videos from their audiences, and promote that through social networks. The platform then helps publishers add to that video, and republish those videos on YouTube, Facebook, and elsewhere.

Platform 190

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Costs of product on YouTube content is literally 99% cheaper than traditional TV and; Distribution of content can now go viral and can predictably distributed via social networks. Eventually other networks will emerge. You can earn the right to ask for customer information and remarket to them. They have to.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 30, 2012

Email readers, continue here.] There are a number of ways to do this effectively, including the use of social networks to create buzz, seeding product acceptance through early adopters or celebrities, or by creating a small niche market that shows unusual acceptance and more. That story can be in print or in multimedia form.

Case Study 212

Case Study Study Social Network Advertising 212

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2011

San Diego-based VMIX , the developer of online video management and hosting services, reported today that it has launched a new product aimed at helping its customers rent videos on the Facebook social networking site. Pricing on the new offering was not announced.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

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. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The second bullet, getting feedback from customers is most often not valid either. Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. The real reason to build an MVP is to do early tests of key Startup Metrics for the business.

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Technical Review CTO Hire CTO Coach Software Review 338

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

4 times / 100 means if a customer uses your app frequently (say 10-20 times / day) then they are crashing nearly every day. Customer Acquisition. At the highest level you’ll obviously want to track how many customers your adding every month (and for some businesses that have hit scale this is measured on a daily basis).

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Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

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APRIL 16, 2010

the company behind the Evolver avatar creation software, is powering an online website where people can preview custom-designed tattoos on their bodies. Darwin Dimensions' avatar technology had previously been applied to virtual worlds, online games, social networking, and for professional animation projects.

Technology 178

Technology Social Network Design Web 178

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MAY 9, 2012

Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , the developer of location analytics software for companies, said today that it has integrated with the popular photo sharing and social networking app Instagram.

Santa Monica 178

Santa Monica Social Network Tool Los Angeles 178

socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

The second piece, is we distribute that across search engines and social networks. If you're coming through a social network, you're most likely sharing, a different experience. Your customers--newspaper publishers--are struggling to redefine themselves in the era of the Internet, and have had some financial issues.

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Marketing Funding Content Writing 232

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NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Nimble, which is led by Jon Ferrara, develops software which lets people track their interaction with customers, clients, business contacts, and others across email, social networks, and much more. The new software also includes features to remind users to stay in touch with certain people. READ MORE>>.

Santa Monica 164

Santa Monica SaaS Social Network Google 164

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2013

As I visit the websites of many startups, as well as more mature businesses, I still too often see a “contact” page offering nothing but a sterile form for customers to submit, never to be heard from again. Social media connections, if they exist, are buried elsewhere or reserved for monitoring purposes only.

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Social Media Customer Custom Media 99

socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2012

Monrovia, California-based Green Dot , the prepaid debit card provider headed by Steve Streit, said this morning that it has acquired Silicon Valley mobile social networking firm Loopt. Green Dot said it will pay $43.4M in cash for Loopt, which will become its Silicon Valley hub for its mobile technology and product development team.

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Monrovia Social Network Mobile Acquisition 150

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AUGUST 25, 2010

The firm did not say when mobile support will be generally available from the firm, however, it says it will be taking advantage of GPS systems built into those mobile devices to get better market data for its customers. READ MORE>>.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

Even when they have talked to multiple developers or development firms, we’re often the first to ask basic questions like “Who are your customers?” Who are the customers? Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? will you leverage?

Develop 520

Develop Development Technical Review SEO 520

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

In contrast, social networking sites drove a record number of clicks, up 20% over the prior year. Clearly there is a shift occurring in users'' behavior, as social networks continue to hone their product discovery and purchase capabilities. Google is great at search, yet their G+ social network wasn’t the most successful.

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Entrepreneur Commerce Sites Social Network 210

socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2010

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace reports today that it has rolled out a new profile and theme gallery, to help with "cleaning things up a bit" on the site.

Design 160

Design Social Network Sites Networking 160

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2011

Although CrowdGather did not mention it, Scherzay is also the founder of FavRav.com, an online developer of a Facebook application to help small businesses find customers through social networks like Facebook; it appears that FavRav's web site is no longer accessible.

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