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JANUARY 1, 2013

Monday, January 7, 2013 -- Sales/Marketing Study Group. Study group for tech startup founders who want to get better at sales and marketing. See [link] (more)

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

Who do you think are the top 50 up-and-coming individuals in Southern California's technology industry this year? If you'd like to nominate an individual (not company) for this award, we've just started collecting your nominations online. Contact us for more details at sales@socaltech.com READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Urban Airship , a startup which develops mobile analytics and engagement software, said today that it has named two executives--both of whom have had prominent roles at Santa Barbara area technology companies. The company--based in Portland--said it named Scott Allen as its CFO, and Eric Holmen as its SVP of Worldwide Sales.

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Santa Barbara SoCal Southern California Sales 100

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

In one more example of why Southern California has become a hotbed for new, technology-based startups, a group of local Benedictine monks in Valyermo--just north of Los Angeles near Palmdale--apparently has its own, hot e-commerce startup, MonksInk.com. ecommerce monks toner startup entrepreneurship religion catholic monk church'

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FEBRUARY 10, 2016

By far the most popular post on this blog is 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. While I’ve updated it a few times, it continues to get at important questions that startup founders need to be asking. million in sales every year for just a 1-second page delay. What do they do? Is SEO important?

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Earlier this week, Good Growth Capital (www.goodgrowthvc.com) announced it has started looking at investments in Southern California, adding Krisztina Holly as West Coast Venture Partner for the firm. Our Infinite Corridor Fund makes pre-seed to seed investments in transformative science startups, primarily MIT-related.

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MAY 7, 2010

Thursday, May 13, 2010 -- Traction in Sales. Traction in Sales is the Game Today! And you wont be until you generate a sales and marketing machine to demonstrate real traction and the ability to sell your products and services. Funded yet?

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JULY 20, 2016

Tuesday, July 26, 2016 -- LA Startup Night / #TechCoLA. and WeAreLATech are coming together to present the best local female-founded startups while celebrating the greater LA startup and tech community. See https://nvite.com/TechCoLA/bd7a.

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APRIL 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based SocialAnnex , a startup helping online retailers to use social media to spur sales, has scored a round of funding from a who's who of Southern California technology angels, the firm said Tuesday. According to SocialAnnex, Kamran Pourzanjani of PriceGrabber.com, Brian S.

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MARCH 27, 2012

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 -- Creating Predictable, Scalable Sales Revenue. Aaron Ross, Managing Partner and Author of Predictable Revenue will speak on "Creating Predictable, Scalable Sales Revenue". See [link] (more)

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JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. It is to out friend.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Thursday, September 13, 2012 -- Women in LAVA Group - SALES: What every entrepreneur needs to know. How Do I Increase Revenues For My Start Up? What Role Can Sales Play In Creating A Steady Stream Of Revenue? How Do I Sell Sponsors Or Create Channel Partners To Help Multiply My Revenues And Reach? See [link] (more)

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MAY 13, 2014

A large part of this conversation is what kinds of advisors startups should be looking for. A little while ago, I suggested that Every Web/Mobile Startup Should Have a Technical Advisor. We both felt that most startups are not taking a very systematic approach to defining with they need in terms of advisors. Connected Advisors?

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JUNE 14, 2016

The most obvious, is to drive sales. How did you start the company? Ryan Costello: I started out as an event producer in Washington DC. So, we started with a restricted access system, so that when I sent out an electronic invitation, you couldn't just forward that invitation to get on the list.

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JULY 7, 2010

Here are eight Southern California companies and the experienced, successful entrepreneurs heading up their efforts, who haven't had any problems finding investors--or customers--for their firms. Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp.

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Southern California Entrepreneur SoCal Mahalo 228

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? Especially if the idea could be whipped-up by a few 24-year olds in a few weeks? You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch.

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Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

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MARCH 12, 2012

I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. Make sure you go through the 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. You should definitely hit up the Startup Weekend events as well. Here's an example of that kind of email.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach Startup Equity 211

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? Especially if the idea could be whipped-up by a few 24-year olds in a few weeks? You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch.

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Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

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APRIL 17, 2010

We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. 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. Watch this space.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

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MARCH 17, 2010

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. Zorik Gordon is tearing it up at ReachLocal.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Thursday, October 4, 2012 -- Predictable Revenue: Getting To Your First Million In Sales. It's not a startup until you've built something and it's not a business until you?ve The class is designed for CEOs, Co-Founders and Heads of Sales working on products that are either ready to market or already being sold.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 -- Is Going Green Good For Sales? The Sustainable Sales panel will explore rationales for launching a green start-up or a green division within a traditional business, as well as debate the long-term viability of these initiatives, with a focus on a number of related issues.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217

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MARCH 4, 2010

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. Later he posted about his experience in Challenges of Startups.

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Technical Review Technical Advisors CTO Coach Startup 170

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. equity debate.

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AUGUST 3, 2012

Thursday, August 9, 2012 -- Startups Uncensored #29 - Eventbrite Co-Founders Kevin and Julia Hartz. Eventbrite enable's event creation, promotion and ticket sales. Eventbrite is an online service that people everywhere use to create, share, and join any event imaginable. They help people discover events that match their passions.

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Startup Sales Help Services 113

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JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others. Click around on the various topics to find some amazing resources.

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Content Startup Social Media IP 175

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JUNE 23, 2017

The insurance industry today is one of the last industries to fully jump into adopting technology for offering up their products, says Wayne Slavin , CEO and founder of SURE (www.sureapp.com), and just needs some help in getting there. We started in travel insurance, which was our first entry into the market, and have expanded from there.

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Southern California Technical Review Startup Commerce 244

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OCTOBER 7, 2007

I've been reading or hearing quite a bit about how startups these days don't take nearly as much capital to create as they used to. And there will be examples of start-ups that didn't cost much (although $100K is pretty extreme and certainly doesn't count human effort costs). What used to cost $1M now takes $100K.

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Venture Capital Startup Incubator Examples 150

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

My friend and fellow SoCal venture capitalist Peter Lee wrote a post about the different roles within a VC and spent much time on the role of an associate. The process for raising money from a VC is a sales process and as such much of what is taught in enterprise sales can be applied. Some people have authority (A).

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Venture Capital Sales Entrepreneur Startup 308

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FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Because of this, I've always tried to stay up-to-speed on how early-stage investors look at valuation of companies. He just post: Establishing the Pre-money Valuation of Pre-revenue Startups. A few things jumped out at me: - Experience in sales or technology - considered a minor negative? What are they really looking for?

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JUNE 2, 2016

The startup, led by Chris Davis, said its revenues have already grown to more than $100M, and that it already has more than 600,000 monthly, recurring subscribers worldwide. Los Angeles-based Loot Crate announced this morning that it has raised $18.5M Downey Ventures, M13, and SterlingVC.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

Found this through Ben Kuo's blog: Media Matchmaker: autopsy of a failed startup from the Frank Peters show. We had talked to them when they were getting started. Sounds like its good we didn't end up working with them. I know we discussed this back at the start. Good stuff! Quite a contrast.

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Startup eHarmony Blogging Custom 150

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

We casught up with CEO Jay Ackerman to learn more about the company, its market, and how the company is looking to help its customershealth plans and managed care organizations--with risk management and quality improvement using technology. I've been a sales leader, a Chief Revenue Officer, Head of Customer Success.

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Artificial Inteligence SoCal Southern California Software 113

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

We caught up with Ryan (who calls himself an "anti-VC") to hear more about his investment firm, which has invested in such companies as Heal , Elite Daily , Saucey , and FragMob. Tell us a bit of the story on how you started HashtagOne? We want to have startups we can get productive or generating revenue pretty quickly.

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MAY 4, 2012

Thursday, May 10, 2012 -- Accounting and Taxation for Startups. At the inception of a company the entrepreneur typically focuses on product development, RandD, customer relationships and sales and marketing.Often, accounting and taxation are overlooked. See [link] (more)

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OCTANE Startup Equity Sales 100

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MAY 19, 2010

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” 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. Time will tell.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240