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APRIL 12, 2018

Mahdessian and Kuzoyan met on a ski trip organized by the Armenian student associations at Stanford and the University of Southern California back when both men were in college. Founded by Ara Mahdessian and Vahe Kuzoyan in 2012, ServiceTitan is very much an up-and-coming billion-dollar business that’s a family (minded) affair.

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Glendale Los Angeles Startup Technical Review 271

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

The most obvious, is to drive sales. Before we came to market, there had not been the focus on having the right people at marketing events, that tracking people matters, and including those events as part of the sales funnel. For us, the funding was because we have so much opportunity. It's a marketing experience.

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Berkonomics

MAY 16, 2013

First, in the late 1960’s (yes, I know, a long time ago), there were 31 phonograph record manufacturing plants in Southern California alone. Email readers, continue here.] Here it is, not so many years later, and the signs are more subtle yet, but the speed of obsolescence is much faster.

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Southern California Social Network Press Guide 228

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. But at the highest level they’ve created a marketplace for “flash&# sales. Tags: SoCal Stuff.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

My friend and fellow SoCal venture capitalist Peter Lee wrote a post about the different roles within a VC and spent much time on the role of an associate. The process for raising money from a VC is a sales process and as such much of what is taught in enterprise sales can be applied. Some people have authority (A).

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Venture Capital Sales Entrepreneur Startup 308

Berkonomics

JUNE 11, 2015

Email readers, continue here…] I’ve often looked back and said that you didn’t have to be a genius at that time. As I look back, I can remember so many times where I benefited from good luck. We went from our largest-ever sale of 3 licenses at one time to a thousand. Oh, how I tortured these early clients!

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Customer Custom Writing Southern California 120

socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2012

In the case of Los Angeles-based SkuLoop (www.skuloop.com), what you do is you shift your focus to that new industry--in this case, flash sales and daily deals--and figure out how to apply your technical know-how to that rapidly growing market. There are lots in Southern California, because the best retailers are here.

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Startup Customer Custom Commerce 208

socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

Southern California--and particularly, Los Angeles--has always been a center of the music business, which makes it unsurprising that there are many, music-focused startups which end up starting here. What's your background and how did you get into this? Vic Caretti: It's rather diverse. Where is the site now, in terms of launch?

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Social Media Startup Sites Advertising 241

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. Here's an example of that kind of email. Tech Events / Meetups - In Los Angeles, There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. Ask them about your concept.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach Startup Equity 211

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

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. in sales last year, what he learned from his experience at TechStars, and where he's going with Fanmix. However Gmail is only private email conversations.

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Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

For years now, companies have been forced to choose between cumbersome, expensive Virtual Data Rooms and decentralized, unsecure email to manage their complex transactions. He helped develop an airline tracking system for Homeland Security and is an organizer of the Agile Open SoCal conference. million Raised. 25 Years of Writing Code.

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Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Southern California--despite the lack of huge, name brand firms-- has a significant number of enterprise software companies, of which Network Automation is just one. We can take all those search results, put them into a spreadsheet, and automatically email it to interested parties.

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Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early-stage investment strategy in Southern California. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list.

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Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not. When I was listening, I made a point to try to do that, but when I did, I found I had to go to twenty sites to find the information I needed--whether that was to write a letter, send an email, or whatever.

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Startup Writing Southern California Email 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Dinesh Ravishankar: We were doing software development for various companies in Southern California, out of my condo in West LA. They measure how many phones calls there are to sales from those billboards, based on our analytics engine. How did you end up in this market? What's your next growth area?

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West Los Angeles Customer Custom Tool 176

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I need to get you into both the Southern California Tech Central and the B2B Marketing Zone. Right now we're working on a multi-platform sales support program for Daylight Transport, a mid-sized LTL (Less Than Truckload) carrier and logistics company. Clients use our templates for things like sales sheets.

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Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Consider it a sales & marketing expense for them. You have this perception that they’re billing you for the lunch meeting they invited you to and the friendly banter emails flying back and forth. He mostly covers Southern California. Anyone who does IP law in Southern California seems to use Knobbe Martens.

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

New digital distribution channels have raised a host of questions the television, movie, and music industries: To what degree will these channels cannibalize sales in higher margin physical channels? Email cornejo@marshall.usc.edu. What types of content should be the focus of digital distribution efforts?

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USC Research Email Tool 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

New digital distribution channels have raised a host of questions the television, movie, and music industries: To what degree will these channels cannibalize sales in higher margin physical channels? Email cornejo@marshall.usc.edu. What types of content should be the focus of digital distribution efforts?

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USC Research Email Tool 100

Steve Reich

JUNE 11, 2012

Why do so many of us have iPhones? The good news is you can do it, too, and there are great examples in Socal. The Founders at Swing by Swing keep up a running email dialogue with their users and circulate the key conversations to their whole team. It gives the best customer experience of any phone. To be the dominant golf app.

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Customer Custom Software Review SaaS 97

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Wednesday November 20 th , 2013 was a special day for the technology entrepreneurs at the University of Southern California. Liu began by talking about her background, eventually explaining how she sent an email to Marks to get into StartEngine in a no Wi-Fi zone. “A The two entrepreneurs then moved on to talk about college.

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Startup Los Angeles USC Southern California 107

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Billy Fried: As an active person, with an active family and active friends, I've gone on vacation and searched around for things to do, or looked for things to do on a weekend here in SoCal. The business is really seasonal, and is really busy in the summer, but not so much in the winter, when I've got more bandwidth.

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Activity Startup Sites Web 164

socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2011

Every so often--particularly in Southern California--you run into a serial entrepreneur, with multiple successes and great track record-- yet, who very few people are aware of. Jeff Zwelling: I was broken hearted when I saw the confidentially agreements for the sale. Jeff Zwelling is one of those.

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Startup Marketing Customer Custom 210

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. He is a recognized leader in the Voice 2.0 Event Details.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 16, 2010

Bill Reinert; National Manager; Advanced Technology Vehicle Group, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Email js@apep.uci.edu. Find out why current discussions and debate regarding automobile design and alternatives to the automobile are unparalleled in modern history.

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UCI Design Training Mobile 100

SoCal CTO

MARCH 2, 2015

I have quite a few conversations like this and am having one via email right now, so it inspired me to put it in a post instead. What you should be gathering from this is that looking for a job is more of a sales process than anything else and there are no easy answers. You need to start by figuring out who your suspects are.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach Los Angeles Angel 150

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

Their all new all electric car is set to be released for sale in limited quantities at the end of 2011. Its mission is to encourage the growth and success of technology-based entrepreneurial ventures in Southern California. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

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CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. He is a recognized leader in the Voice 2.0 Event Details.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

It's unusual to have a CEO from the technology side, they're usually from sales. So, we've build a task manager module which tracks thigns that need to be done, to make sure multiple people sign off on documents, validate when they're done, send an email alert, etc.--all What's the story behind Blackline, and how did it start?

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Startup Software Review CTO Hire Oracle 124

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. They respond to email. Conviction.

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Startup Coach Course Invest 150

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. Entrepreneur: Following is an email describing my idea. Since you won’t sign an NDA, you agree that by reading beyond this paragraph you are agreeing not to share my idea with anyone, forward this email to anyone, or discuss the idea without my consent.

Startup 211

Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. They all were very different companies.

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IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. Entrepreneur: Following is an email describing my idea. Since you won’t sign an NDA, you agree that by reading beyond this paragraph you are agreeing not to share my idea with anyone, forward this email to anyone, or discuss the idea without my consent.

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Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

For automotive sales associates, the rewards were prizes, trips, etc. As an example – …” In other words, here’s a template for a conversation (or email). So the question is whether it’s worth the effort. In fact, we’ve also used it as a means of some fairly generic goal setting processes.

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Satisfaction Examples Course Technical Review 167

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

We tend to be better at things like team building, negotiations, sales, and fundraising – which are arguably the most important skills entrepreneurs should posses. There simply are NOT enough venture capital firms in the Southern California. Challenge #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles.

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Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. Community Home Loans: FOR SALE. Upstate NY Retreat For Sale. Investment Land For Sale. Most Emailed Feed.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2009

The typical thing that happens is someone says -- one of my clients wants to sell a multimillion dollar project to this company -- so the attorney asks around the firm, sends dozens of emails across five people--do we know anyone at this company? He's a person who validated our business and told us to look at Southern California.

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Networking Startup Social Network Software 113