Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. But at the highest level they’ve created a marketplace for “flash&# sales. And of course we had, TheMan.

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MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. Both of his co-founders worked with him previously and both worked on ad management platforms. I’ll explain in detail below. Enter Burstly.

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

Edward Park: My background is screen printing and production. My previous company did production runs for small clothing lines, promos, and trade show giveaways, and one of the things we realized it's such a volume industry, and the technology of screen printing has been around for 10,000 years, developed by the Egyptians and the Chinese.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Provides an enterprise collaboration and storage platform. Time will tell. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

The Black Tux online tuxedo rental, which is reinventing the customer experience in the antiquated $10B+ tuxedo rental and sales industry. Blayze , the first online video audience development platform that empowers brands, YouTube channels, and media companies to buy and sell highly targeted new viewers. Founded by L.A.’s

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2012

People will see things for sale based on their location, anywhere in their neighborhood, and around the country. Rob Kramer: My partner and I had been developing apps and platforms for year, and had been Craiglist and eBay users, but only reluctantly. The entire platform, both on mobile and web, is built for having one experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Well, we started out a free text messaging platform. We just happen to have significantly more users than most of the group texting platforms you typically read about. And Austin Murray runs sales & marketing – a role he also held at JAMDAT. Management, SVP North American Sales and SVP European Publishing.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

ZunguZ is a global social payment platform that integrates deeply into the social graph of Facebook and financial service providers. We may keep the platform with the name ZunguZ and look for a client facing name for the application. TechZulu caught up Robert Sussman, Co-CEO of Zunguz , the Facebook payment app. What is Zunguz?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Instead, we’ve matured and grown our technologies and sales infrastructure to a point where the intersection between where we are and where we want to be is perfect to facilitate growth. . . “GumGum’s always been ahead of its time in what we’ve introduced to the market. ” Online advertising is changing.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2012

I think we were able to effectively transition, because our technology platform. At the time, our platform allowed us to build our games, and have one game which we could send to multiple devices. Speaking of iOS and Android, what's the future of platforms? Josh Hartwell: In the near term, it's iOS, Android, and Amazon.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Solaborate is a blend of great social network platforms, by taking in all the greatest bits and putting it all into one. Solaborate is bringing professionals and companies from the tech industry together and connect them through a new social media platform. There are multiple platforms used to get the job done.

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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. I recently wrote about the three rules of sales. In sales we often call these USPs (I wrote about them here: Unique Selling Propositions ).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

Powerpoint can be especially useful for platform businesses or B2B. It’s the same as in any sales-oriented meeting and make no mistake raising money is sales. The conversation moves from consuming images on a screen in lean back mode, to active engagement. But flip you must – just as in a sales meeting.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

When we first alpha tested this, we just had watchable entertainment, movies and TV, many of them popping up in second screen apps. Each of them has different programs, but we get four to ten percent of a sale. When we started this, we were a web-based platform, because that''s what made the most sense when we started.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

The consumer piece is a big part of our business, and the next big piece is the advertiser platform, plus everything we wrap around the advertiser experience, helping them to manage their content, and provide great reporting, and helping them to understand the ROI of doing business with us. When did the split with AT&T happen?

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

A consumer piece is a big part of our business, and the next big piece is the advertiser platform, plus everything we wrap around the advertisers experience, helping them to manage their content, and provide great reporting, and helping them to understand the ROI of doing business with us. When did the split with AT&T happen?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

” while watching the screen and registering nothing. Enter Vidzey , the in-video shopping platform that seamlessly combines media, entertainment and e-commerce. I’m staring at my screen, and there they were. ” THE SALES PLATFORM. Vidzey is a revenue share and affiliate marketing platform.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2012

Park had a screen-printing business in 2004, starting with his own $4,000 investment. Park’s platform allowed them to do so. We want to create a platform where we make it super easy for people to make real money.” It will not be industry standard in which your percentage goes down as your sales goes up.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

Our first product is called Seed, which is a screening test for male infertility. We've translated that into a screening test, which started offering out in October of last year. The use of the proceedshas really been about ramping up commercialization and sales. We hired a VP of Sales, have been building out a sales team.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Zak had an idea for a screen writing magazine, and was trying to make it as a screenwriter, and found out there was a lack of good resources for people trying to scrap and get to the top. He was independently working on a collaboration platform for writers, and eventually we all got on a phone together, and it clicked.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Because I built two SaaS companies and sold my second one to Salesforce.com (where I then took on the role of VP Products) I am often asked to look at SaaS and/or sales-oriented deals for others. The emails we all get on the AngelList get say something like, “New gaming platform invested in by Dave McClure, Chris Yeh and Jeff Clavier.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 22, 2016

The value of your branding impression compared to impressions on any other platform is insanely high. Don’t take up more than ⅓ of the screen, unless you have a super compelling concept. This is an opportunity to really provide value upfront; don’t just go for the sale. Brands and businesses should definitely take advantage.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

One of the local firms attacking that market is Los Angeles-based FunnelSource (www.funnelsource.com), a developer of software-as-a-service tools that provide analytics to sales teams. Coming out here, I wanted to focus on what my specialty was, which is driving sales as a VP of Sales. What opportunities are hot, or cold?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. . Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? Remember again that the three major steps to a sale are: Why buy anything?

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 19, 2016

Given the nature of the venture capital industry, we understand the need for a secure deal management and stakeholder communications platform. You can’t just go into the vault, you need permission, be screened and supervised when you’re in there,” said Jackson. It complements other tech you are using. They are great filing cabinets.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 16, 2016

For the first time, the company let people ride around in the car , which is destined to go for sale – perhaps later this year – for around $30,000. Of all the companies at CES, Chevy had one of the most advanced electric car models ready to try, the Bolt. BMW iVision. The iVision includes everything the future promises for electric cars.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

He spent nearly five years at each of Salesforce.com and Oracle and was an Area VP at Salesforce leading sales efforts at some of the largest clients that Salesforce.com has. The heads of sales operations were emphatic in ways I have seldom experienced. You might want to ask, “What is the Q3 sales forecast for the central region?”

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

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. Their all new all electric car is set to be released for sale in limited quantities at the end of 2011. The Spotlight is shining down these amazing LA companies! wonder what that might be?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

OP: myLINGO is a smartphone app where you can select and download an audio track of a movie in your preferred language and go to the theatre and have that audio track synchronize to the movie playing on the screen. How can film and distribution companies increase their revenues by utilizing the myLINGO platform?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

We realized that what Apple had done, was introduce a completely new way of interacting with computing devices, using touch, a rich, animated UI, and the size of the screen. The use cases range from sales enablement to human resources, to executive reporting. We founded the company in 2008, inspired by and around the first iPhone.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

It is a communication platform. If I’m not mistaken, I may have been the first person to send out an angel “personal intro&# email on AngelList through their new platform when it launched or at least I was one of the first few. There is no secret, just a lot of hard work and screening of both startups and investors.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

And with this foundation they worked on Plug.DJ’s platform to solve some fundamental problems: The world is increasingly social, but music discovery was still a largely solitary experience. They emphasized community management over other “typical” first-hires (administrative, sales, etc.). ” Plug.DJ

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

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. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Joey Flores – Co-Founder and CEO of Earbits. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Another big innovator in helping manage cloud implementations is Okta , founded by Todd McKinnon, the former VP of Engineering at Salesforce.com (who knows a thing or two about cloud services) and Freddy Kerrest who was senior in biz dev & sales at Salesforce and was there from 2002-07. Cloud Data Platform.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

So without my weighing into the pro’s / con’s of this I can say that I believe it will capture a large segment of the market but leave room for “open platforms&# to play a big role. Thus you see television manufacturers rushing to create content ecosystems, app platforms, TV OS’s and Internet offerings.

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