Eric Greenspan

APRIL 9, 2013

We love to browse the latest and greatest technology and touch it and we will buy it if we know its fairly priced and sold by a reputable firm. It’s a flat screen. The price keeps dropping. It’s like buying produce at the market. We need fewer answers and simply more price options. The picture is solid.

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Pricing Course Technology Screening 229

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Search Marketing. Lots of marketers are feeling a lot of pain in their search marketing, and we thought there was a great opportunity here to solve that problem. Lots of marketers are feeling a lot of pain in their search marketing, and we thought there was a great opportunity here to solve that problem.

Yahoo 171

Yahoo Platform Advertising Startup 171

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Streaming services are designed to be easy – open an app, hit play, and you’re pretty much just where you want to be. But the latest range of streaming services also offer a lot of customization options…even if they are hidden from view. Price: $8 per month for basic plans, up to $12 for extra screens and advanced features.

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Tips Netflix Hulu Services 40

Tech.Co

AUGUST 16, 2017

Finding potential customers continues to be a huge challenge not only for established marketing and sales teams but also for startup executives and solo entrepreneurs. A study in 2013 showed that 61 percent of marketers found it hard to generate high-quality leads. Pricing: Valet – up to 1000 leads/month, $49.

Tool 79

Tool Startup Help Template 79

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. It’s why opt-in marketing databases can be so incredibly valuable for companies like Gilt Groupe, One King’s Lane and AdoreMe. People don’t want to speak to customer service reps. There are 2.9 billion email accounts.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Tool Users - Startups often have a long gestation period in which the team is in discovery mode, defining the company's value proposition, target market, pricing, business model, etc. Sadly, relatively few entrepreneurially minded MBA graduates can now afford to accept a below-market salary at a startup.

Entrepreneur 279

Entrepreneur Technical Review Case Study Class 279

Eric Greenspan

APRIL 9, 2013

We love to browse the latest and greatest technology and touch it and we will buy it if we know its fairly priced and sold by a reputable firm. It’s a flat screen. The price keeps dropping. It’s like buying produce at the market. We need fewer answers and simply more price options. The picture is solid.

Pricing 100

Pricing Course Technology Screening 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Deal screening. He jumped into some portfolio company exercises to help with pricing strategies, budget templates, M&A support, marketing function reviews, etc and started to show us how valuable he was to entrepreneurs. And we had to then build out new marketing materials and a website. Portfolio community building.

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Help Invest Venture Capital Technical Review 365

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

But, how can the company offer up free conference calling services, and what''s the story behind the service? David Erickson: We provide a conference calling service, like any other kind of conference call. Other services give 800- and 888-numbers. Tell us a little bit about FreeConferenceCall.com? How is that?

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Conference Startup Services Networking 100

InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2015

Yet too often, entrepreneurs embrace giving away their products and services for the wrong reason - they are simply reticent to ask for payment. During the height of the Dotcom craziness, Expertcity (creator of GoToMeeting, acquired by Citrix) released a free service called BuddyHelp. Ways To Make Freemium Users Pay.

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Technical Support Customer Custom Demand 100

Berkonomics

JUNE 11, 2015

On the West Coast, where I started, the stock market closed at 1 pm and that’s when my customers wanted to see me. And I would learn customer service. ” And oh, did we struggle as we learned all over again how to provide customer service to these large and demanding new clients. In this way I learned a great deal.

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Customer Custom Writing Southern California 120

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

An online marketplace for legal services. Get free bids from lawyers on the documents and services you need! to create, market and sell an interactive cookbook as both an iPad App and web-based book. The EA works closely with the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at UCLA. Cookbook Cafe.

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UCLA Santa Monica Mobile Web 97

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

We had the final terms of our agreement fairly well boxed in within a range of about 5-7% on price and within 30 days on move-in date. I obviously preferred the lowest price and I wanted the latest move-in date. She told me, “start with the price you want but the move in date he wants.&#. I value the service they provide.

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Venture Capital Pricing Startup Outsource 319

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2012

” Park found it particularly interesting that he can follow a teacher or even a VP of a financial service but never really know it. Park had a screen-printing business in 2004, starting with his own $4,000 investment. A lot of competitors also stole their ideas and started offering the same services.

Startup 98

Startup Customer Custom Pricing 98

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. What is your VoIP service all about, and how is this different from what seems to be lots of Voice over IP service providers?

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IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

Startup 233

Startup Tips Web Platform 233

socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

We have a couple of different ideas in the pipeline, and have filed patents in our unique way of showing advertising on a very small screen. Back in the day, when you went to Amazon, you ended up at Amazon Germany, where everything was in German, and prices were in German Marks. What happened there? What's the key part of the app?

Mobile 233

Mobile Southern California Startup Outsource Development 233

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Recent alliances in both the emergency responder and warehouse space will allow us to deliver a best-in-class solution to help manage teams, workflow, and efficiency through our wide-screen, large battery, full OS, wearable. EnvoyNow is innovating in the on-demand food delivery space, targeting the underserved college market.

Fractional VPE 40

Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Crowd Seats gets you in the crowd for your favorite games with ticket prices 50-90% off face value! Price: $25 (Early Bird). It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. Event Details.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Facebook has created a simple “Allow” button on a splash screen listing off permissions that you haven’t even read, you just close the window and discontinue your desire to commit. How does Facebook know this? Think about it.

News 104

News Hulu Commerce Sites 104

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. Of course, when you’re talking about enabling/emerging technologies, as Brock Pierce puts it, “Market timing is critical to success.”

Startup 95

Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Laura Brashier is the founder of 2date4love , an online dating service for singles who are unable to have sexual intercourse but still want to find love. Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. The philosophy of OPEC has been that if they can limit the amount of oil supplied to the world they can maintain high prices in a world where demand and competition should naturally have downward pressure on oil prices.

Hulu 292

Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Many people are too cautious in sales processes and as a result when they present their solutions they end up sounding milquetoast and undifferentiated from anybody else in the market. If you want that kind of service focus I think we’d be a better fit than your internal IT department.” We have a great screening process.

Sales 150

Sales SaaS Startup Venture Capital 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. ” These are people with whom there is a likely match for your product or service. If you’re raising money in Financial Services I’ve never met a more knowledgeable investor than my partner, Brian McLoughlin. Why buy me?

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Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

million in financing, has a mission to create a more inclusive network of family planning services for people struggling with the high cost and low availability of fertility clinics around the country. “And the queer community has been locked out of these services. . There’s a huge gap in care,” said Bogner. .

Lancaster 201

Lancaster Screening Startup Los Angeles 201

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

Entrepreneur 298

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

billion market cap so he has a history of weighing in early and being right. I almost don’t want to tell you because I love the product and would love for them to stay under the radar screen from investors. Including ff Venture Capital’s unique approach to finding deals and the services they provide to their startups.

Cornerstone OnDemand 303

Cornerstone OnDemand Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup 303

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Note that I didn’t say there will be total “convergence&# – but I believe the services will inter-operate. “Over the Top&# video distribution – Apple TV comes out in November and is priced at $99. they’ll try to “move up the stack&# and provide some of these services themselves.

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