socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. I've been in product, product development, marketing, and management.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2012

Carlsbad-based MaintenanceNet , the developer of sales channel management and service agreement renewal software, reported that it's expanding Down Under today. The firm said it has signed a new, value added distributor in Australia, Westcon Group Australia, who will offer its product to its resellers for free. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2013

Their deep understanding of their customers, an uncompromising drive to create a quality product and the courage to ignore the music industry's formulaic approach to producing hits resulted in the creation one of the top selling non-compilation albums of all time. This audience feedback allowed the band to iteratively modify their creation.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2009

We built a product that was really, really deep, meant for the business traveler, got rid of manual entry, allowed for cash transactions when you're out in the field, records receipt images from your Blackberry or iPhone type of camera. Let's build a product, which automates all these expense reports and exports to all those systems.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 13, 2015

This point is nicely illustrated by Albert Oaten, VP Market Development at SecureDocs. For instance, if you are selling ten seats of a SaaS solution, consider reducing the price per user if the customer purchases enough seats to generate a substantially larger sale than would otherwise have been possible without the per-seat discount.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

I could easily go into the board rooms of major European companies (I was based in London) and land $500k – $1 million contracts so my order book grew rapidly. We typically committed to building “missing&# features and therefore steered off of our MVP (minimum viable product). Have a product for online backups?

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

William--who, among prior experience developed Stamps.com's security architecture--sat down with us to explain the firm's products and plans. What does Mobophiles do, and what the idea behind the product is? What we wanted to do is allow people to be productive when they wanted to be productive.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

In contrast, TaxJar, a SaaS solution which makes automates online sales tax calculations, reporting and filings, is an entirely virtual company. The bottom line is that the TaxJar team is happy - and because we're happy, we're incredibly productive.”. “We We realize that remote work is not for everyone.

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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. I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. How are we going to manage the product roadmap?

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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. Joanne Chen, Partner at Foundation Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

Many of you will know that Twitter unexpectedly cancelled it’s contract to allow DataSift to resell Twitter data to 3rd parties. But of course customers will have to do some technical work to migrate products and will lose DataSift functionality that Twitter / Gnip does not possess directly. billion people.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

You’ve got to see your product weaknesses and plug them. We were strong in the UK and they were strong in Germany and Israel (where they had a development office). I had developed a great relationship with the CEO whom I still admire (he left many years ago). million to see what would happen. We signed deals worth $1.2

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

The CEO weighs in with his perspectives, the head of product management disputes his conclusions and the marketing VP has a different take. The sales rep that brings back news from the front line that is shared with the office adds to our collective knowledge about customer needs, product design flaws or partnership opportunities.

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