socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2015

Today, we have some thoughts from Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital , a private equity investment company in San Diego. 2014 was the most active year in TVC history as measured by the number of investments/acquisitions/follow-ons/exits we completed. Then treat these customers well and great things will happen.maybe maybe even 10x.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

He has been able to take complicated topics like cloud computing and boil them down into pithy messages like “the end of software&# as depicted in the simple logo to the right. It emphasizes both cloud computing and salesforce.com’s differentiation – they’re not “software.&#.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Middle Market Investment Banking. Joyent - An Enterprise Class Cloud Computing Company funded by Intel Capital, provides the most comprehensive cloud solution available today. Need office or Tech Space? Think Glendale. Deloitte (www.deloitte.com/us/technology).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Today with the growing number of disruptive technologies available, like cloud computing, wireless sensors, Big Data, and mobile devices, an incremental solutions mindset is no longer enough to win. The best athletes are naturally gifted, but even they train constantly and invest hours of practice every day.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 11, 2016

It has been the goal of Microsoft to offer a cloud security solution that was designed to leverage the unique insights that Microsoft has concerning the cyber threat landscape in order to provide tools and resources that will help customers do a more efficacious job of preventing, detecting and responding to threats. Reliability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Today with the growing number of disruptive technologies available, like cloud computing, wireless sensors, Big Data, and mobile devices, an incremental solutions mindset is no longer enough to win. The best athletes are naturally gifted, but even they train constantly and invest hours of practice every day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2018

Today with the growing number of disruptive technologies available, like cloud computing, wireless sensors, Big Data, and mobile devices, an incremental solutions mindset is no longer enough to win. The best athletes are naturally gifted, but even they train constantly and invest hours of practice every day.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

At the end of the day, we help retailers make smarter recommendations to their customers, which leads to better business. Spencer Price: The customer experience with e-commerce has become less and less human, as algorithms on digital platform replace human interaction. The customer is really struggling to regain their lost humanity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising.

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Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

Mythic, based in both Redwood City, CA, and Austin, TX, is one of the upstart companies benefiting from a surge of investing in the chip-making field, where the growing computational demands due to the use of AI are creating an opening for young entrepreneurs with out-of-the-box ideas.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Obsess About Customers, Not Colleagues Or Competitors. “We We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.”. You can be customer-focused or competitor-focused. Let’s do it.’”.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Because of the advancements in cloud computing by companies like RightScale and open source software such as MySQL , the costs to create a scalable web service have decreased by a factor of ten since the year 2000. The company was subsequently sold for far less than the total capital invested in the business.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

. “Cognitive computing,” artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced data analytics are evolving companies’ understanding of their customers in game-changing ways. The Device-Agnostic Customer Experience. Where security concerns may have previously put companies off cloud, the tide may now be turning.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 14, 2015

Organizations are in a data collecting frenzy, hoping the information they store and analyze will enable them to predict future outcomes and better understand markets and customers. Organizations are looking for professionals with very specific specialties, like data science, cloud computing and machine learning.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

When I first got into VC I decided I better have some investment themes. My background was 8 years of telecoms & mobile and 8 years of cloud computing & SaaS – so these two themes were a given. “People still want calls …&#. They know what you bought the last time you were shopping. Or can they?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. We spend a lot of time listening to our customers and working with them to build the right solutions.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Because of the advancements in cloud computing by companies like RightScale and open source software such as MySQL , the costs to create a scalable web service have decreased by a factor of ten since the year 2000. The company was subsequently sold for far less than the total capital invested in the business.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. Such offers often come from a larger company once the startup begins to gain traction with customers and prove its value proposition. VCs typically evaluate their investments based on their best guess as to the startup’s ultimate exit value.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. Such offers often come from a larger company once the startup begins to gain traction with customers and prove its value proposition. VCs typically evaluate their investments based on their best guess as to the startup’s ultimate exit value.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

Combine this with the increasingly active angel investment and venture capital communities and you’ll discover that Arlington is at the hub of an emerging startup ecosystem,” Wellman said. Justin Antonipillai, founder and CEO of WireWheel, relies on the business connections and talent in Arlington to grow his business.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Take advantage of the Cloud. Cloud computing technologies can reduce your startup expenses, improve cash flow, and boost productivity. These days you’ll find Cloud-based tools to handle myriad tasks, such as invoice processing, customer relationship management, data security, and more. Lease, don’t buy.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Find sources of capital— friends & family, business bank loans , angel investment , venture capital or even crowdfunding ( Crowdfunder , Fundable ). Set up your computer and network. Choose an email system to connect with customers ( Constant Contact , MailChimp , Sendgrid ). Financing and Business Planning.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Stop Listening to Your Customers. A common assumption among startup entrepreneurs is that listening to potential customers is the best. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Customers, research, startups. . How UX and the Cloud are Transforming Software. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, Entrepreneurism, SaaS. .

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

I can’t say for sure, but it feels to me like the re-urbanization of technology companies is driven by a broader trend of the tech industry overall – cloud computing. One of the major trends I’ve outlined is this movement of entrepreneurs (and as a lagging indicator venture funds) to more urban environments.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Their company, my company and countless others espoused cloud-based applications. We evangelized to customer about the problems of on premise software. - The power of the web increased dramatically and “Cloud Computing&# began to take a huge leap forward. It’s a way to reach your customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. But they do small, seed like investments when they like the entrepreneurs. So how can I justify doing seed investments?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The Exit Problem.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

As for 2010, it’s shaping up to be a year of general improvement in the business and technology industries hard hit by recession, the impact of which has seemed to hold back new investment and experimentation in social technologies, many of which are funded by staff participation from Internet firms. There are others as well.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

The investment also brings its total capital raised since its 2008 inception to $386 million. The company’s platform aims to serve as “an operating system” for lawyers, offering cloud-based legal practice management, client intake and legal CRM software. Clio has more than 150,000 customers across 100 countries.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I’m often asked by people what investment areas interest me. It’s true that I have a functional focus on three areas: Performance-based marketing, digital television and mobile computing. I try to invest in things that I know and that I believe I might have better knowledge and relationships than the masses of VCs.

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