socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2021

Los Angeles-based education technology developer GoGuardian says it has named a new Chief Revenue Officer. According to the company, it has named Brandon McAllister to the post, to help shape its long-term strategy for scale, as well as to oversee day-to-day operations of its Revenue team.

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socalTECH

MARCH 23, 2018

San Diego-based Peachjar , which develops software used in the K-12 market to help get flyers and information to parents, has named Joyce Whitby as its new Vice President of Sales, and Tom Motter as Vice President of District Relationships. Motter also served at NextLesson and Social Sentinel. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2020

These grants include funding to educational institutions, researchers, research centers, colleges and universities, or private companies that are researching or developing leading edge solutions in several categories including agriculture, education, energy, health, medical, space, science and technology to name a few.

Equity 156

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Educational. Helping customers discover new ways to solve common problems can quickly build you a loyal following. Highly relevant and educational content if irrelevant if you can’t make it easy for people to understand. Use callouts and bullets to help the reader speed through your content. Lacks a sales angle.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2014

Nimble''s new feature pulls in publicly available information--such as biographies, company information, educational background, investments, and more--for any contact, to help users gain better insights into their contacts. nimble contact management software enterprise sales dossier' Nimble is led by Jon Ferrara. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

com) � backed by local investors Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures�is helping to solve that problem, with its career pathing software designed for helping employees at large enterprises figure out what's next. It helps you figure out what you can do in a business, what roles are available, what might be my future here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Hire more help than helpers. In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 13, 2022

Whether the exit was as large as you hoped, or whether your goals of taking care of all the people who helped you get to this point were realized, the exit itself generates a complex set of emotions in all of us. To celebrate with your suppliers who helped you, especially during the rough times. Your set of complex emotions.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Los Angeles-based RxVantage , the venture-backed startup developing cloud-based, scheduling software for managing the interaction of physicians and biopharmaceutical and medical sales representatives, said today that it has rolled out a new corporate subscription program. Pricing on the new offering was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 5, 2022

As you scroll, you can guess whether the price Playhouse showed you is higher or lower than the actual listing price, helping to educate future buyers about the market (… and also it’s fun, even if you’re not looking to buy a $2 million home in San Francisco). The feed shows videos of homes on the market, as well as a price tag.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2023

As an advisor to many startups, I often spend hours with business owners helping them anticipate every possible obstacle to the adoption of their solution, and developing a rollout plan to include antidotes. The more revolutionary the solution, the more important it is to educate customers on a solution’s existence and value.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2012

Boston Startup School set out to leverage the renewable resource of graduating seniors in Boston to fill that gap by adding to the education of entrepreneurial-minded Gen-Yers. The school has been designed to provide hard skills and develop soft skills that one would only receive on the job at a startup, and to do so well before being hired.

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Education Startup Software Review Technical Review 86

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

As an advisor to many startups, I often spend hours with business owners helping them anticipate every possible obstacle to the adoption of their solution, and developing a rollout plan to include antidotes. The more revolutionary the solution, the more important it is to educate customers on a solution’s existence and value.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2020

The LIHEAP money is critical for the over 12 million Americans who have recently lost their job, the consortium argues and could also help finance the Department of Energy’s Weatherization program. billion set aside for workforce retraining and education. billion set aside for workforce retraining and education.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Make marketing and sales a priority. No matter how well-educated you are, and how certain you are that you understand all the nuances of a business area, it is a good idea to work in a similar business for a few months to get a feel for the market and observe the unwritten rules before taking the plunge. Temper theory with reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2021

Small but important options to provide expedited delivery, or priority service can significantly increase your average sale, without being tagged as a higher price. Convince customers that you are selling at a loss, or use a sale price much lower than the original price. Define ancillary services to increase the average price.

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Pricing Startup Competition Examples 145

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Often grouped into formal organizations, these investors are sophisticated, helpful, and connected. There is a rather new term for those large, individual investors who are usually former entrepreneurs made rich through sale of their previous ventures. Angel investment groups or funds. Individual super angel investors. Venture farms.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

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Berkonomics

MAY 8, 2014

These grants include funding to educational institutions, researchers, research centers, colleges and universities, or private companies that are researching or developing leading edge solutions in several categories including agriculture, education, energy, health, medical, space, science and technology to name a few.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We're here to help them solve the problem of compliance and retail policy enforcement, and to understand what people are saying about their products next to their buy buttons, what kind of reviews they are getting, and to understand other things that influence sales. We provide analytics on the velocity of sales across their channels.

Artificial Inteligence 140

Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Disruption of Education. He talked about how for centuries education had “no technological core” (meaning it was bound by physical locations) and thus disruption was very difficult. Today’s higher education is responding by making more courses online and available to people outside of physical boundaries. .

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2021

Ultimately, it will help them find a career, and help the world. I think if we, as Belkin, can find a way to help the communities where we are, where we are living, by helping students grow and helping them with the challenges they face, that's a natural thing with who we are and who we've become over the past 39 or so years.

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Belkin Playa Del Rey El Segundo Education 113

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

Very few of them are started, in my experience, by sales people and very few early stage companies really understand sales. That’s why I started the Sales & Marketing Series and at one point I will do a bunch of posts on the sales methodology we developed at my first company called PUCCKA. More on that later.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2011

I’d like to start by asking each of you to consider helping under-privileged children in America get a little bit more than they have today. DonorsChoose let’s you “ hack their data &# in creative ways to create offerings that may be relevant to helping with education projects in America. Small or large.

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Startup Education Entrepreneur Help 295

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2019

Educational. Helping customers discover new ways to solve common problems can quickly build you a loyal following. Highly relevant and educational content if irrelevant if you can’t make it easy for people to understand. Use callouts and bullets to help the reader speed through your content. Lacks a sales angle.

Custom 93

Custom Customer Marketing Tips 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2020

Expand into key new sales and delivery channels. Today the Internet is the best example of a new sales and delivery channel that has transformed many businesses, and killed others. This were done in a complementary fashion to provide support and education, and not undermine sales.

Custom 143

Custom Customer Examples IBM 143

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Hire more help than helpers. In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage.

Startup 97

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 97

Berkonomics

APRIL 19, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] Early in the rapid growth phase of my computer software company, I hired an excellent, IBM-trained vice president of sales to further growth and begin our international expansion. Everyone but the sales VP was present as anticipated. An industrial psychologist helps (me) the CEO.

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Training Course Sales IBM 226

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2021

Richard Branson’s adventurer escapades are legendary, and Steve Jobs made new product presentations an experience, as well as a sales pitch and an education. Visible passion is a quality that helps successful entrepreneurs choose their direction, attract clients, investors, and success. Possess extraordinary passion and energy.

Marketing 157

Marketing Design Entrepreneur Ideas 157

socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2013

RxVantage (www.rxvantage.com), based in Los Angeles, is looking to tackle that huge market with its medical scheduling software for pharmaceutical and medical sales reps and medical offices, and is venture backed by Slater Technology Fund and Javelin Venture Partners. What''s in this for the offices and talking with reps? READ MORE>>.

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Marketing Software Education Startup 231

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

You can use this just internally for you and the people on your team helping you in the raise or if you have existing investors or advisors you can open it up to share with them. If you’re building an education startup and you don’t see any logos of education companies on the firm’s website you are likely targeting the wrong firm.

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Funding Startup Venture Capital News 215

socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2018

CampusLogic, which develops software tools to help streamline the management of student financial aid for schools, said Wednesday morning that it had raised $55M in a funding round from JMI Equity. CampusLogic said it will use the new investment for product development, customer success, and sales and marketing. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

You probably haven’t heard of Raymond “Pappy” Smith, but he parlayed his Junior High education into an entertainment empire that changed the way Americans viewed gambling. Education – When he opened his first casino, gambling was not mainstream. Thus, he had to educate his gamblers. Lessons: (i) Over deliver value to your users.

Education 100

Education Zag Entertainment Sales 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. We also have live lab sessions, which we run through Google+ Hangouts, which mirror the school education experience. It's a hands-on kind of education. What is CreatorUp all about?

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Web Content Startup Education 187

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2010

Find the best and brightest next generation of entrepreneurs and help them to be more successful. Help these companies get funded and let them know that if they stayed in LA there was an ecosystem to support them. We will host “founder dating&# events to help the CEO’s gain access to technology talent and vice-versa.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Southern California Tech Coast Angels 259

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2018

Ahead of the conference, we sat down and spoke with Kevin Anderson , co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Appetize (www.appetizeapp.com), a rapidly growing developer of point-of-sale software, on the topic of customer service. What has been the biggest lesson you've learned in retaining and keeping customers? Kevin Anderson.

Custom 113

Custom Customer Services Conference 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Jon Grishpul: GreatBuildz is a free service, where we help homeowners find reliable, vetted general contractors, and provide support during the project. We use the same process he used for vetting his own contractors, and use that same system and process to help the clients of GreatBuildz. What is GreatBuildz? How are you funded?

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