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About this Blog

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 About this Blog Ive been thinking about doing a blog with my thoughts on technology and whats happening in the Los Angeles area technology scene for a while, but it was Ben Kuos recent start of a blog that inspired me to actually go ahead and do it. Thanks Ben.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Michael Jones Gets Exit At Thing Labs

socalTECH

Michael Jones , CEO of MySpace and former founder of Userplane, has another exit under his belt today, as AOL announced it has acquired Thing Labs , a San Francisco maker of web-based, social software. Thing Labs makes the Brizzly web-based software for sharing and discovering content. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. Good stuff. Posted byTony Karrer at 6:58 AM 1 comments: Jon Miller said.

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The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get

Both Sides of the Table

years ago you’d remember RIP Good Times from Sequoia, which still strikes me as having been prudent advice in late 2008. Would Microsoft have been such a powerful global business if IBM had recognized the importance of software as an independent phenomenon from hardware? I started blogging 2 years ago. So which is it?

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Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures, On Mental Health And Investing In Founders

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The second thing that drove this, and I have a blog post I'll be posting on this, is my own personal journey as an entrepreneur and also as a founder of Crosscut. If you look back at our history, our first fund was in 2008, and we did nine ad-tech deals and nine e-commerce deals.

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Microsoft’s $1.2 Billion Acquisition of Yammer Complete

Tech Zulu Event

According to the Jared Spataro Senior Director, Office Division, Microsoft in a blog post the firm had met all the requirements regarding the acquisition. Yammer on its blog says ,”We’re pleased to announce that Yammer is now part of Microsoft’s Office Division. Yammer was launched in 2008 and raised $142 million then.

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