socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2015

What if searching for people to recruit to your company was as easy as running a search in Google? That's the idea behind Connectifier (www.connectifier.com), an Orange County-based startup led by John Jersin --whose founders and many of its employees have come from Google, Amazon, and other companies where search is a part of their DNA.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2013

Full-service Pinterest marketing and technology startup – HelloSociety recently announced it had driven $30 million in additional sales revenue for its over 350 brand clientele through Pinterest. The Science Inc accelerated startup also said it had delivered 2.9

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MARCH 1, 2011

Why AltaVista Failed To Become as Successful as Google. Mike believes the reason AltaVista didn’t become Google ( despite their market leadership position ) was because they didn’t focus on search. Overture became intrigued by Quigo’s AdSonar technology and wanted help targeting ads for their content business. We can do better.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies , the latest startup headed by Ryan and Chad Steelberg, announced today that it has raised $20M in a Series C funding round. Ryan and Chad Steelberg are best known for their sale of dMarc to Google in 2006. The two also founded AdForce (sold to CMGi) and 2CAN Media (sold to CMGi).

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socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2009

Google's foray into the radio automation market has finally ended this morning, as San Francisco-based WideOrbit said it has acquired Google Radio Automation and related products. No financial details of the asset sale were disclosed. At that time, Google paid $102M in cash--with up to an astounding $1.1

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

I’ve sat through a lot of VC pitches and having been CEO of an enterprise software firm for many years I’ve also sat through many customer meetings with sales teams. After the sales meetings I would ask the exec afterward, “how do you think it went?&# We used to do this in our sales slides.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2019

Lynwood, California-based NEXT , the developer of trucking and shipping logistics technology led by CEO Lidia Yan, has hired a trio of new executives--and says it is planning to add over 200 employees this year in a major expansion. Patterson was most recently Chief Product Officer at Earnest Inc, and also served at Google and YouTupe.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 20, 2020

Assistive robotics, on the other hand, are among one of the primary real-world tasks existing technology can seemingly address almost immediately. Prior to Diligent, Chu worked at both Google[X] and Honda Research Institute. Early Bird tickets are now on sale for $275, but you better hurry, prices go up in less than a month by $100.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. But we have a great city for building technology companies. LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. You can find very talented technology executives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2022

I tell entrepreneurs that Google was an “exception” to all the investment and startup rules, but I’ve always wondered what it takes to be an exception. Sergey, a mathematical wizard, is the arbiter of Google’s technological approach. Technology alone does not make a great company. Google now employs about 140,000 people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2017

I tell entrepreneurs that Google was an “exception” to all the investment and startup rules, but I’ve always wondered what it takes to be an exception. Sergey, a mathematical wizard, is the arbiter of Google’s technological approach. Technology alone does not make a great company. It didn’t disappoint me.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and Facebook, for those startups that use it as their driving force. There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. Smartphone penetration in the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2012

I tell entrepreneurs that Google was an “exception” to all the investment and startup rules, but I’ve always wondered what it takes to be an exception. Sergey, a mathematical wizard, is the arbiter of Google’s technological approach. Technology alone does not make a great company. It didn’t disappoint me.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2020

Irvine-based Advantage Solutions , which provides technology-enabled sales and marketing services to manufacturers and retailers, has acquired Quantum Networks , a New York City-based e-commerce retailer and agency. Advantage Solutions says Quantum Networks also is on eBay, Newegg, Walmart.com, Reverb, and Google Shopping.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2019

There are some stats out there that say that 80 percent of the market is doing online research, and out of those 80 percent, 60 percent are looking at sites like Youtube and Google to help with their purchasing decisions. So this is more augmented reality technology that VR? Gina Callari: I'm a little biased.

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socalTECH

MARCH 7, 2014

San Diego-based Emotient has raised $6M in a funding round, to go towards the company''s technology for facial expression recognition, the company said Thursday. Along with the funding, Emotient also said it has launched a new application for Google Glass, which helps sales people measure the emotions of customers using the Glass camera.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2011

I tell entrepreneurs that Google was an “exception” to all the investment and startup rules, but I’ve always wondered what it takes to be an exception. Sergey, a mathematical wizard, is the arbiter of Google’s technological approach. Technology alone does not make a great company. It didn’t disappoint me.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We spoke with co-founder Ryan Costello about Santa Monica-based Event Farm (www.eventfarm.com), on how its software technology is being used to power high end, VIP events for large companies. The most obvious, is to drive sales. That uses things like RFID technology, such as you might have seen at Coachella.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2014

In the latest, technology-driven real estate deal in Los Angeles, the creator of Minecraft --Markus "Notch" Persson--has spent $70M for a giant mansion in Beverly Hills. Persson recently sold Mojang, the company behind Minecraft, for $2.5 billion dollars. Persson new mansion is 23,000 square feet. READ MORE>>.

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Steve Reich

JULY 6, 2020

The shiny object is really important in the sales cycle, but there is no sustainable advantage to be had. A good clickthrough rate on a Google ad is 0.5%). They kept wanting to steer the conversation to which vendor had killer functionality today. I was flat wrong. Important information from trusted FIs was valued by consumers.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

It also handles the back end as well by automating the posting, sale and shipment of unsold inventory while offering immediate payment to creditworthy sellers. Privacy is important, so inventory owners can choose the restrictions on who can see the liquidation, like competitors, and it doesn’t appear in Google searches, Kaplan explained.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2020

For example, you may think that disruptive smartphones were an overnight sensation, but in reality, it took huge investments by several different companies starting in 1992, including IBM, Apple, and Google, before the market really took off in 2007. Innovation doesn’t even require technology.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2012

The round was led by Google, along with prior investors Redpoint Ventures and MK Capital. Machinima said the new funding will go towards content and global sales operations, international expansion, distribution strategies, and product and technology initiatives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2010

I tell entrepreneurs that Google was an “exception” to all the investment and startup rules, but I’ve always wondered what it takes to be an exception. Sergey, a mathematical wizard, is the arbiter of Google’s technological approach. Technology alone does not make a great company. It didn’t disappoint me. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Invoca is now doing 10s of millions in recurring revenue and is growing > 75% year-over-year but it took the first 3 years to really build out the technology and acquire our initial enterprise clients. If I use Invoca as an example: we handle tens of millions of phone calls for customers who want to drive sales calls into call centers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

It is with this backdrop that I was really happy to learn from my friend Ethan Anderson (HBS alum & founder of RedBeacon) about an awesome program at HBS run by Tom Eisenmann called Launching Technology Ventures. That student is Erin McCann who formerly worked in sales at Google, so she has some ground to stand on in her assertions.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2015

As part of the funding announcement, Connectifier says that it now has an annual run rate of $10M, having grown from zero revenues in 18 months; the company said it has seedn a 487 percent annual increase in its sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2014

When you’re an early-stage business every dollar matters and because many startup teams these days are very product & technology centric they often miscalculate the importance of PR. Enterprise Sales – The very first thing a potential customer does when you email or call to set up a meeting is Google you.

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socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2012

The company said the new office will help support its Bay Area client base, plus provide it with local access to agency representatives at Google and Yahoo. The Search Agency is a provider of search marketing services to clients, providing paid search, SEO, and other services to help its clients.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Initially established as part of a collaboration with Microsoft back in 2014 when the company first began work on its Hololens, the media giant is spinning out the team as it explores the broader sale of certain assets.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Technology solutions are now used by authoritarians to monitor and control populations, to stymie an individual company’s economic prospects or to foment chaos through demagoguery. What Has Changed in Financing?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. NastyGal is just one of a number of fashion-meets-technology startups to emerge in Los Angeles, which. has long been home to both technology and fashion--but, based on its trajectory, looks to be one of the fastest growing. Rubicon Project.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 23, 2018

The research organization CIRP announced in August that sales of smart speakers had exceeded 50 million, with sales expected to grow 48% over the following twelve months. Neither Google nor Amazon offer ads on their platforms. However, sales of Google’s Home product appear to be outstripping those of Amazon.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation people was a bad thing. But the “no sales people” mantra isn’t what I’m here to take on. I believe it’s flawed.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Sales – Many publishers, including Grit, encouraged newspaper boys to create new routes and expand existing ones by aggressively selling subscriptions to non-subscribers. This pay-per-newspaper formula directly rewarded the children’s sales efforts and sparked a life-long entrepreneurial fire in generations of newspaper boys.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Rachel Payne , the CEO and one of the co-founders of FEM, is a veteran of Google, and is taking her experience there and applying it into the video recommendations and engagement area. Rachel Payne: I was working at Google for about eight years, most recently in global strategic alliances. What is FEM? My other cofounder has a Ph.D.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

Many businesses these days serve both paying and non-paying customers, such as Google and Facebook, who count on millions of non-paying users to attract advertisers, who really pay the bill. Popular revenue models today include recurring subscription charges, licensing, as well the traditional sale or lease model. Value propositions.

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