TechCrunch LA

MAY 8, 2019

The company has raised $11 million in financing from undisclosed strategic investors and Craft Ventures, the investment firm set up by former Yammer founder, David Sacks. “This idea was seeded within GumGum,” says Tanz. “I started the process of collecting dental x-rays over three years ago.”

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

We''ve created a really simple product, which is simple to deploy, simple to administer, looks and feels like SMS, and works like an app over the top, and has al the features and capabilities to unlock lots of utility to someone. Our fourth generation product allows for multiple directories in the app. That''s what we''re devoted to.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. So I asked Ethan to build his product first and then we would fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

The late night didn’t make for a productive start to the morning but by the time Sean Percival got on stage to host the panel with Chris Brogan, Micah Baldwin (who started #FollowFriday) and Ben Huh (ICanHazCheeseburger) there was a great discussion on what it takes to be an Uber-blogger and social networker.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

We're trying to save companies money, and increase the productivity of employees. That can be a subject matter expert, product head, a sales head, any category in the enterprise, and they can use our lightweight platform for answers. There were things like Yammer, Jive, and all that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

Reward shorter hours of high productivity. Peer pressure keeps productivity standards high. Encourage people to work where and when they are most productive. Encourage people to work where and when they are most productive. People who get paid by results have every incentive to think up smarter ways of getting work done.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

Reward shorter hours of high productivity. Peer pressure keeps productivity standards high. Encourage people to work where and when they are most productive. Encourage people to work where and when they are most productive. People who get paid by results have every incentive to think up smarter ways of getting work done.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 11, 2011

Enterprise Software sucks, and if you’re an engineer or product designer, we invite you to join this hackathon to reinvent business 2 business software. The goal is to take the complicated out of softwares like CRMs and project management tools and turn them in to simple, beautiful and usable products. Second Prize: $500.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This was back when you had to do a couple of rounds of funding to just get your product out of the door. So back to the company--is the product live yet? Jackson: We currently have some beta users, and the product is up and running. I lived through an amazing experience over the next four years.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2009

But then your customes start using your products, your competitors come out with new offerings and your business partners decide to launch a similar product rather than working with you. Did you know that their original product wasn’t a video camera? Geni.com beget Yammer. They were product and cost focused.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Jackson , “This financing round, coupled with hiring Adam Sroka as our head of technology, puts CapLinked in a position to further enhance our enterprise product offerings.”. million which was raised from Thiel, David Sacks (CEO of Yammer), and Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir), 500 Startups and 7th Rig. According to CEO Eric M.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Interesting that Booyah is led by a former game producer, Keith Lee, who formerly launched very large products for Blizzard Entertainment. Yammer, Salesforce Chatter.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past. I know the product intimately and it rocks. Assistly’s main competitor is ZenDesk, whom I’m told also has a great product. And I know that great startups like Yammer are doing well. 2.2mm in Series A. Enter Xobni.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

Now, you don't have to go to Twitter to listen, LinkedIn to listen, your email inbox, find contacts in Google Contacts, or even Yammer or Hootsuite. We've designed it as a platform, which will enable others people to build off of our product, extend, and share extensions in an app store. Everything is in one place. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

and so on and we do private implementations with the likes of Yammer and others. It’s also worth noting what a great win this has been for the UK as our tech & product teams are still based outside of London and we continue to grow those operations under the guidance of Nick Halstead and Tim Barker. ” Steve.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

That means a slew of companies will be preparing to launch their new products or announcing their companies at the annual SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. If you’re trying to launch your company or your next new product you won’t achieve any of these things. It’s February now. Why Twitter & FourSquare Succeeded.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

If you’re Yammer , Mint or RedBeacon (all winners) you’re knighted with wonderful coverage. 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.

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Tips Startup Press Blogging 307

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

Dig deeper and you see that they do: project management (like 37 Signals), share and store files online (like DropBox and Box.net), create and edit documents online (like Google Docs & Zoho), Wikis (like SocialText) and Discussions (like Yammer). And how were they going to exist as paid products in the future? Skype is king.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

Some investors are team focused, others market focused, others seems to look for product / market fit. Only then can I even care about product, market or their nebulous “fit.&#. I want somebody who can inspire you to produce great products but not know your trade better than you do. I love the design of your product.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

(Part I, Team) Tact was founded by Chuck Ganapathi , who was formerly the SVP of Products at Salesforce.com having led initiatives like their chat product, CRM and mobile. For six years before that he was at Siebel who was the market leader in CRM before Salesforce, and he has both a masters in product design from Stanford and an MBA.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

We collaborate using Zoom, Teams, Salesforce, Yammer, Skype, GoToMeeting, Fuze and hundreds of other tools not available to the last generation of whiteboard, personal meeting or teleconference users. We are in the “age of recommendation” Already, 69% of consumers research their product, service and guest stay decisions online.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Open standards that make it easier to plug into other products & services, creating a global bazaar. Socially connected individuals and platforms that enable faster roll-outs of successful products. Does your product dramatically reduce costs in an industry with large incumbents and fat margins?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. And Wikipedia is deflationary meaning it takes the costs of production to almost zero.

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