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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

socalTECH

We are also pushing out updates all the time to our customers. CIOs are wondering if they should jump in, wait for production, or wait for things to mature. That allow enterprise CIOs to jump into OpenStack head first. What is pushing those CIOs to consider private clouds? A good example of that is Ceph.

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Interview with David Loo, CEO and Founder of Perspectium

socalTECH

We're in the space, and leading the thought process on what needs to be combined, for example, CRM with ITSM tools, to create meaningful results that you can act on at the C-level. So how far along is your software now, and have you rolled this out to customer yet? That's how we started. What specific problem were you seeing?

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How ZestFinance Is Using Machine Learning to Reshape Lending, with Jay Budzik

socalTECH

Jay Budzik: ZestFinance was founded in 2009, by Douglas Merrill, the former CIO at Google, in order to make fair and transparent credit available to everyone. How are you able to convince your customers your machine learning tools are making the right predictions in those cases? What does ZestFinance do? READ MORE>>.

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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers.

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers.

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Taming The Enterprise Texting Tiger, With TigerText's Brad Brooks

socalTECH

How difficult has it been to get your customers to understand the exposure with SMS? One of my friends, the CIO of a large healthcare system, did a study with Verizon of their facility, and found that there were 3 million SMS messages sent in a month. Some of the first customers we had were in obstetrics.

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Ten Executive Titles You Don’t Want in a Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers.

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