Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. I like to repeat the mantra, “necessity is the mother of all invention,&# meaning that because investors have this expectation you find entrepreneurs that focus on nearer term monetization.

Company 290

Company Companies Technology Startup 290

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2014

We caught up with founder and CEO Grant Kirkwood --a serial entrepreneur and veteran of providing infrastructure to the enterprise markets--on the vision behind the company. Most of the CIOs we are talking to are at large banks and healthcare providers. Explain to us what Unitas Global does? But, the way we do it is different.

Cloud Computing 217

Cloud Computing Outsource Development Outsource Startup 217

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

Matthew’s passion is partnering with brands to help build community, optimize operations, and develop a strong digital strategy. Garth Holsinger, VP of Global Sales and Business Development, Klout. Garth will speak about successes in partner development, using case studies from his experience at Klout.

SEO 85

SEO CTO Coach Conference Social Media 85

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

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. c-level entrepreneur funding startup titles' Unless your business is a religion, I don’t recommend it for a startup these days.

CTO Hire 100

CTO Hire Funding Cloud Computing CIO 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

To solve that issue, Santa Monica-based TigerText (www.tigertext.com) has been developing smartphone applications which replace SMS, and provide companies with the ability to control, delete, encrypt, and otherwise gain control of the messaging between their employees. What''s the biggest lesson you''ve learned, as an entrepreneur?

Yammer 229

Yammer Startup Mobile Organization 229

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2010

In retrospect, however, Bill Gates did a lot of things right as a startup that I still look for today in aspiring entrepreneurs and their companies: Build a strong team. Microsoft spent a huge amount of time and money with software developers for applications, and with hardware manufacturers to support multiple PC platforms.

IBM 85

IBM IBM CIO Startup 85

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The multi-tiered platform allows for money to be transferred between Facebook friends, the ability to click and purchase any item that you see on Facebook and through the published API’s, developers can integrate and write their own applications on top of the ZunguZ platform. As we know, developers always give their product a code name.

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

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. Unless your business is a religion, I don’t recommend it for a startup these days. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Information Officer.

Startup 97

Startup Invest CTO Hire Cloud Computing 97

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

At your stage of development do you really think a shit-hot VP Sales is going to join you to head up sales? I had always been a scrappy entrepreneur. One such meeting that he set up was with the CIO of the largest consumer products company in Europe. Well, first let’s be honest. Now was time to bring in some process.

Startup 327

Startup Sales Class CIO 327

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313