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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. Turn Your Organization Inside Out. Back then it seemed foreign.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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Southern California has had its share of new startup accelerators launch in the last few months, however, few people here have actually experienced an accelerator firsthand. Alex Benzer: I'm actually building two startups. SocialEngine is four years old, and that's the startup we applied to TechStars with.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

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A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

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After months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. The evening will consist of a series of live stage demonstrations guaranteed to impress and inspire new ideas among all in attendance. Community Sponsors.

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

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In the bay area it’s quite common for the entrepreneurs starting a company to be developers or technologists who can build the first versions of their products. He worked for me at Docstoc for a brief stint (and did an awesome job) after being a writer at TechCrunch for a few years. Whereas in Silicon Valley, you can have a V.1

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Presenting Companies at CalTech

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The evening will consist of a series of live stage demonstrations guaranteed to impress and inspire new ideas among all in attendance. It gives music companies a direct pipeline to market their products and services to music fans. We have helped many other startups through our carefully designed investment model.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

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He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. Navy, Pfizer, & Unisys Corp.