socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2013

the developer of enterprise software for managing M&A transactions, venture deals, and other business deals, said yesterday that it has launched a new, activity tracker, which helps its customers figure out who has viewed files and information in the service, filterable by date range and more.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

Specifically, they should know about, and help with: Asking and answering the 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators Knowing when and how to bring on development talent ( Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit? , They look at the code produced on a regular basis to ensure that it’s high quality and right for you.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

Today’s $24 billion storage market in the US has these same key disadvantages and that was the genesis of Sam Rosen’s initial idea for MakeSpace , which I initially funded 15 months ago. He spent a few months building out the software because just taking stuff from people isn’t that difficult. I’m long NY.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review ! Last week, we talked about about the “de-stonkifying” of the market. The company’s stock tanked by more than 26 percent, representing a $230 billion reduction in market cap and a $31 billion drop in Zuckerberg’s personal net worth. other things.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2012

Huntington Beach-based AnyMeeting is looking to spur more reviews of its app in the Google Apps Marketplace, saying this week that it will enter any of its customers reviewing its app in the marketplace into a contest for a new Kindle Fire. AnyMeting, which is headed by Costin Tuculescu, offers up free web meeting software for users.

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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. The firm said the new offering starts at $899 per month.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2014

What I didn''t know at that time was that Brian''s inventiveness extended beyond hops and barley, into the world of guerrilla marketing. Brian carried out one of his most clever marketing campaigns earlier this summer, when he partnered with the band Buellton and created a new saison brew, called Silent Partner. Would you do it again?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 30, 2014

Too bad, as they would be well served to study Dirty Franks marketing plan, which has withstood the test of time. Franks didn''t need a sign, let alone a marketing budget. Hurry Up And Stop Marketing. If you have amazing products, the marketing of those products is trivial. say) ‘We’re the market leader in blah.’

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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. It does take a long time to penetrate the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

It surprises me that anybody would buy a car without this data because as most people know MSRP on cars is mostly an irrelevant data point used for marketing purposes. “Invoice price” is an equally meaningless marketing tool. But I digress. While back at the office the other 98% of the staff actually have to build stuff.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites. Review the code being built. WordPress - we spent quite a bit of time talking about how you could do a lot with WordPress to provide simple forms of lots of functionality. WordPress is pretty easy to hack. Plan for past the initial MVP.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Companies like DogVacay solve a real need in the market. They can read reviews, see pictures and even talk to the family before confirming. I typed in my brothers zip code and ton of houses popped up in his area and I was able to search out on a map view. I told her the story of Aaron, the company, the reviews, etc.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

AI empowers businesses to craft more impactful marketing campaigns by utilizing data analytics for content personalization and market trend forecasting, thereby significantly enhancing campaign relevance and effectiveness. By automating routine and complex tasks alike, AI allows engineers to focus on innovation and strategic tasks.

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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. years of software development. We have built route management software so that drivers have productive routes and can cluster pick-ups and drop-offs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. Nascent startup markets are like fine wine, they take time to develop.

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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. We only want software revenue.” We prefer to sell software, not get involved with client systems.”

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2013

According to KBB, its new tool provides a range of prices, and also highlights different local dealerships, consumer ratings and reviews of those dealerships, specials on new cars, and inventory of those dealers. KBB says the new tool is updated weekly and aggregates new car transaction data from within a user''s zip code. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 3, 2018

All of the benefits of a cryptographically secured, publicly verified, anonymized transaction system can be erased by errant code, malicious actors, or poorly defined parameters of an executable agreement. Hoping to beat back the tide of bad contracts, bad code and bad actors, Sagewise , a new Los Angeles-based startup has raised $1.25

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 17, 2017

A marginal example was the Intel release of the Pentium Pro and new Pentium II processor to rave reviews – until a math professor found an obscure error in the chip’s code that made a rare floating-point calculation error. There is always a trade-off between cost for testing, time to market and risk of problems.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Sharpening its focus on the electronic discovery market, Pasadena-based X1 , the enterprise search tools provider backed by Idealab, has split out a new company called X1 Discovery , headed by John Patzakis, the former President of eDiscovery at X1. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Our target market is entrepreneurs, creatives, and developers. We actually have a very big Wordpress user base, because of the work we''ve done with Wordpress, contributing code and integrating them into our platform. That has grown very nicely, even those we''ve not been overly aggressive with marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Letting our customers and the market know that we were a real organization with real people rather than a pre-packaged, pre-processed marketing machine. Customers, press and the market responded positively. ‘ Here are some steps in the Inside Out organization. What changed for us was Tim Barker arrived.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

Anyone looking for signs that the economy is turning around, might want to look at what appears to be happening in Southern California's technology jobs market. We're getting more aggressive in recruitment," explains says Kirsten Mangers , CEO of Irvine-based Webvisible.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2014

Their focus on ease-of-use form over function resulted in a series of products that defeated stalwart incumbents, including marketing-leader Symantec. Like most legacy software solutions, 15-years after its release, Symantec''s pcAnywhere had become bloated with features most users never accessed.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Fortunately I was mostly a technology consultant, which meant that I coded computers, designed databases and planned system integration projects. One of our core tasks was “market analysis,&# which consistent of: market sizing, market forecasts, competitive analysis and then instructing customers on which direction to take.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

If you care to review my prior discussion with Kevin, you can do so HERE. Due to his stellar track record, Kevin is routinely approached by people who want to work with him so they can learn his secrets. You have to be skeptical of… social marketing. We have talked to a lot of social marketing firms…people really struggle.

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socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2014

However, Egg Baby--the title from newly funded Nix Hydra (www.nixhydra.com)--seems to have cracked the code for how to get new, young, female consumers to become game players. We''re based in Los Angeles, and make a game called Egg Baby, which so far has had more than nine million downloads, with zero marketing spend.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2014

He noted that, " Throughout the year I review my Twitter followers looking for bots, accounts that have been abandoned, or that are tweeting links with viruses and I remove them. The social media industrial complex is fraught with digital marketers and consultants who puff up their abilities and accomplishments.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? I continue to be intensely interested in the growing integration of AI across multiple products and industries, from simple applications on up to highly sophisticated software and services. READ MORE>>.

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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 provided a whole set of questions that I go through with founders before Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything. What options do we have?

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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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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2011

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , the developer of software-as-a-service for talent and employee management, has dropped its plans for a secondary IPO, citing "current marketing prices". Cornerstone OnDemand trades as CSOD on the Nasdaq Global Market. The firm had a successful IPO in March. READ MORE>>.

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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. The company said that unbranded, proximity search ("coffee near me" or "grocery store near me") is becoming a "new battleground" for digital marketers.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 23, 2021

Indeed, two of the best funded companies in the lab-grown meat market hail from The Netherlands, where Mosa Meat is being challenged by a newer upstart, Meatable , which just announced $47 million in new financing. Meatable has a long road ahead of it, because, as Gates acknowledged in his interview with MIT Technology Review (ed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

I second his list of top innovation challenges and strategies to capitalize on untapped global startup opportunities: Create new markets rather than disrupt existing ones. Design the full stack, not just a new software element. Target a global market rather than a local from day one.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

San Diego-based software developer Mitchell , which develops software and other technology for the insurance and collision repair industries, says it has merged with Genex Services , a provider of clinical solutions for the workers' compensation, auto, and disability markets. Financial details of that merger were not announced.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

As I like to say, “If you’re really on to an enormous idea then other people in the market are going to spot that and want to compete with you. If you have a market lead then raising capital and making investments now will help you as others enter the market. If you don’t, somebody else WILL!”

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