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New Bootstrap Fund Pulls Itself Up in World of Health IT Deals

Xconomy

They wanted to combine Hinshaw’s experience in starting and growing health IT startups with Balgrosky’s expertise in strategic IT planning and overhauling healthcare IT networks—but without getting too deeply involved. They came to San Diego in 1996, when Scripps Health hired Balgrosky as CIO and senior vice president.

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Making The Enterprise Cloud Real: Unitas Global's Cloud Vision

socalTECH

Most of the CIOs we are talking to are at large banks and healthcare providers. My last company was a global communications company with network points of presence around the world. We can handle both network and infrastructure, to how applications work, and let companies instead focus on what they''re good at.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

socalTECH

I had a sales force when I was at SkyPipeline, selling telecom, networking, and broadband wireless products. My CIO had been ex-CIO at Herbalife, and was an EVP of Software for Disney. We went from $9M in sales to $624M in sales in eighteen months, and sold out at 19x EBITDA. So where is the fund now?

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Biz2Beach To Stream Live Here On TechZulu

Tech Zulu Event

For those who may be unfamiliar with the Biz2Beach conference, its a networking conference of thought leaders, innovators, and trendsetters for a day of exchanging ideas. Garth Holsinger, VP of Global Sales and Business Development, Klout. Robyn Ward, Director of Sales and Business Development, Betterworks.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business). You can hire a talented head of marketing, business development, technology and sales. So it’s always a trade-off.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA.

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ZunguZ Facebook Payment Application | Interview With The Founder Robert Sussman

Tech Zulu Event

African ICT Achiever Awards – Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Year – WINNER multiple times (Annex.13). Rob and Lance made multiple business trips to the USA and UK in order to understand the offerings and strategy of existing payment providers, social networks, banks and financial service providers. PayPal – Payments Director.