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Interview with Adam Bernhard, HauteLook

socalTECH

Last week, Los Angeles-based HauteLook (www.hautelook.com), an online private sales site, scored a major round of funding--raising $31M from Insight Venture Partners. Adam Bernhard: We're a platform that does flash sales. Adam, thanks for the time. We work on behalf of brands, as a web site that has a membership base of over 2.5

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Failing to Plan, Is Planning to Fail

Tech Coast Venture Network

The are free samples on the web.but caution, some are better than others! Higher ROI: Referral marketing, Social Media Marketing, PR, Advertising. Don't: Ignore the need for Pre-sales. Projected Financials: 5 year Cashflows & Income Statements (Balance Sheets Preferable as well). Current owner investment. Marketing Plan.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

Both Sides of the Table

If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. This is true whether it’s physical products or media products. from Charter’s subscribers.

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Interview with Allison Beal and Brian Garrett, StyleSaint

socalTECH

We'd make 500 samples, and about 150 would be picked up by consumers, who became huge evangelists for the brand. Brian Garrett: The way I describe it, is it's a fashion, media, and commerce company. Brian Garrett: We launched at Disrupt in New York, with what we call our media product.

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Using Technology to Realize a Competitive Advantage

Tech Zulu Event

Critical software programs for accounting, email, and productivity are just a small sample of the cloud services that are available to small businesses in today’s world. Social Media Automation Tools. Businesses can even use cloud services to host their websites and compute complex mathematical equations. CRM Platforms.

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7 Ways to Keep Your Customers Begging for More

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs don’t realize that this burden is actually costing them over $200 billion in repeat sales, according to a recent study by the W. Today’s generation is accustomed to relationships via social media and texting, as long as social protocols are honored. Carey School of Business. Provide training and empowerment.

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Off To SXSW, Our Schedule, And A Special Thanks

Tech Zulu Event

A huge thanks goes out to the Social Media ClubHouse (SMCH3) for helping put this all together. Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely. Media Temple hosts websites. The time has come for us to say goodbye SoCal (temporarily of course) and HELLO Austin! Big and Small.

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