socalTECH

JULY 16, 2020

Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , which develops software to help multi-location brands manage their reviews, location listings, and much more, says it has rolled out a new product. Pricing on the new tool was not announced. Pricing on the new tool was not announced. READ MORE>>.

Software Review 154

Software Review Santa Monica Technical Review Pricing 154

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

Her argument is that if Uber buys Grubhub (which itself once merged with Seamless) it would mean that Uber Eats / Grubhub would control half the market and that with DoorDash the two together would control 90% of the market. You lose the ability to up-sell and cross-sell products. ChowNow is simply a SaaS enablement product.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2012

NEOGOV , which has quietly built an enterprise software company supplying human resources software to the government and public sector. How did you come across the market? The government and public sector is a fairly large market. New products we've launched include performance, onboarding, and backend HR functionality.

Software Review 243

Software Review SaaS Startup Technical Review 243

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

Startups in a world of massive markets can be confusing. The law of large numbers, platforms that can make your company blow up unexpectedly and the trendy nature of tech markets can be deceiving. This is why I loved Brad Feld’s recent post about the “ illusion of product / market fit.”

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Product Startup Metrics Technical Review 150

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge of business this year, as millions of consumers are encouraged (or outright mandated, due to Covid-19) to socially distance or want to avoid the crowds of physical shopping and eating excursions.

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Technical Review Startup Marketing San Diego 343

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

I pointed out that the storage market in the US alone is ~$30 billion / year and there is no dominant provider — the largest player has < 10% market share. Amazon took a consumer value proposition (buying books, then all retail products) and made the consumer experience significantly better, faster & cheaper.

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Technical Review Funding Software Review Artificial Inteligence 268

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2011

Pasadena-based Central Desktop , the online provider of project management and collaboration tools, announced today that it has launched a new product targeted at marketing agencies.

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Marketing Pasadena Software Review Startup 154

InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2016

However, they clearly have a long term impact on the customer’s overall satisfaction and thus their propensity to purchase additional products in the future. Startups do not always have the luxury to optimize their product for both buyers and users. Users, on the other hand, immediately saw the benefits of SaaS. Share and Enjoy.

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SaaS Startup Software Review Development Team Review 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

We successfully accelerated our product innovation schedule to deliver, in record time, solutions to meet these challenges. As brick-and-mortar businesses closed and re-opened at limited capacity, our team of digital marketing strategists updated hours on more than 1.3 million local listings, a record number.

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Software Review Organic Search Startup 140

socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2014

However, Redondo Beach-based StaffRanker (www.staffranker.com) has rolled out a system to help those companies better manage what is a notoriously difficult segment of the labor market, which has a lot of turnover and which just doesn''t match existing, corporate performance management systems. What are you doing now and where''s the product?

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Help Hermosa Beach Technical Review Redondo Beach 223

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. We then allow them to understand the true potential velocity of markets online.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

For today's interview, we sat down and talked with Mike Whitmire , the CEO and Co-founder of Los Angeles-based FloQast (www.floqast.com), a developer of financial close management software for enterprise accounting. Mike tells us about the company, who uses its software, as well as how he was initially turned away from the Amplify.LA

Startup 124

Startup Cornerstone OnDemand Software Review Woodland Hills 124

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

In product business it is often measured over multiple purchases and assumptions are made about the repeat rates and in the enterprise or services world LTV can be based on churn rates, which are notoriously hard to predict in an early-stage business. If you can’t raise — you’re dead. End of story. LTV is imprecise.

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Metrics Startup SaaS Course 150

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Ken Button: I am a corporate attorney, and started in private practice at O'Melvany and Myers, and later served as General Counsel for a software business. We have been around software for a long time. We found out that when we spoke to the target market for this, which is any company under a billion dollars.

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Doc Software Review Help Startup 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

Startup 383

Startup Company Companies .Net 383

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup, the dominant need is certainly to produce product to get something in the market, get funding, etc. I understand the desire for hiring someone who is going to product product. How are we going to manage the product roadmap? What options do we have?

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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach 225

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Reviewing financial & operational performance. Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup. how to market our products and company. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions.

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Startup Sales Technical Review Software Review 325

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I’ll publish the final post in this series this week and then move on to my next series – sales & marketing. When you’re researching a market you can spend a year putting your hypotheses on paper but you somehow never really have a handle on the minute details of the industry until you’ve lived in it.

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Entrepreneur Startup SaaS San Diego 267

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JUNE 18, 2015

I often tell people that in some ways it’s easier to build great companies in down markets. ” But as entrepreneurs you don’t get to sit these years out and as investors we don’t get just let a few years pass and return back to the market. .” One needs to be in during bull markets and bear markets.

Software Review 150

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Invest 150

InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

Perhaps in part due to its dominant market share, WebEx adopted telecom-style pricing, which effectively penalized their users. In each case, they successfully migrated their go-to-market strategies to one based on long-term sustainability. WebEx was the early leader in web meetings. Arbitrage Is Fleeting. Scaling Right.

Entrepreneur 225

Entrepreneur SaaS Pricing Cloud Computing 225

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2009

Eric Sikola is CEO of ExpenseBay (www.expensebay.com), a Los Angeles-based, online, software-as-a-service startup which has created an online application which uses Web 2.0 finance software such as Wesabe and Mint, and applied it to the corporate expense area. technology to make submitting expense reports extremely easy.

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Web 2.0 Startup SaaS Report 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

It allows you to share private and confidential information about your company, and have a dialog with your investors, within a walled garden where you can put the documents you need for diligence. Jackson: I was the first Senior Director of Marketing at PayPal. So back to the company--is the product live yet? READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Entrepreneur Software Review Yammer 243

Steve Reich

JUNE 11, 2012

MindBodyOnline is a terrifically succesful SaaS company, based in San Luis Obispo, that provides scheduling and transactional software for Yoga studios, hair salons, and spas. They have 1 million registered users, and have not spent a dime on marketing. They read product reviews obsessively. Marketing expense? $0.

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Custom Customer Software Review SaaS 97

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Also at Startup Night will be 25 diverse and innovative startups showcasing their latest products, competing for prizes including: $1K from LaunchKC , Business Extra Points from American Airlines , and a fast tracked spot to the Startup of the Year semifinals competition at Innovate Celebrate 2018. As the President of Start Co.,

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

We went through the euphoria of massive exposure at the time of our launch due to an article that ran in the Financial Times. Our software wasn’t fully baked. We had one of the largest US software companies talk about buying us. Our product releases took longer to ship than we had hoped. We were unprepared.

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Startup Press Custom Customer 331

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. Here’s my thoughts on improving your relationships with journalists and as a by-product improving the coverage that they afford you: 1. Don’t put in the time to getting coverage until your product rocks. Oh, and Demo charges the startups $18,000.

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Tips Startup Press Blogging 307

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. For parents, if you're interested in how your kids are doing, you can find out what their schedule is like, what homework is due when, what their grades are, and how they are progressing, plus you can communicate with their teachers. What's the market opportunity here?

Education 124

Education Startup Course Tool 124

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit. Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? What options do we have? Accounting?

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CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop 231

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. Most were on paper and video; 20 were invited to pitch in person.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217