socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based Morphlabs , the developer of cloud computing software run by Winston Damarillo, announced this morning that it has released a "significant upgrade" to its mCloud Controller product. The firm said the release simplifies the process of building and managing internal cloud computing environments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

A common request I get while mentoring entrepreneurs is for a copy of the startup checklist they need to follow, in order to build a successful new business. His checklists cover everything from building a vision, to consistently delivering results, for entrepreneurs up to mature business executives. Cloud Computing.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Kamran Pourzanjani , the former CEO and founder of PriceGrabber.com, and Omid Rahmat , the former CEO of Tom's Hardware, have acquired Portland- and Santa Barbara-based ELC Technologies , the development firm founded by Jonathan Siegel. ELC is known for its cloud computing applications development, and Ruby On Rails development.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based Kazuhm , a startup developing a distributed computing workload platform, has received a funding round from Analytics Ventures, Analytics said this week. Size of the investment was not announced. Tim O'Neal, a former executive at Intuit, is CEO of Kazuhm.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Well, Kyle Ellicott (serial entrepreneur and FIDM web lead) and Brian Robinson (founder of ndmweb) thought that web developers should get a taste of that collaboration innovation as well. Tags: Business Culture Entrepreneurship Startup Brian Robinson Cloud Computing Codeita FIDM Kyle Ellicott ndmweb.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based MaestroDev , the developer of private cloud computing software, has officially named Doug Dennington as the firm's new President. Tags: maestrodev private cloud computing software saas executive president. Damarillo sold Gluecode in 2005 to IBM. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

If you're a large, enterprise company, in recent years, cloud computing has become an increasingly large--and expensive--piece of your information technology (IT) mix. Enterprise cloud budgets are growing astronomically as companies adopt many cloud techniques. Explain what Kazuhm does?

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2014

For all of the consumer adoption of the cloud, enterprise users are still not as bought into the vision of cloud computing as one might think they would be. So, how do you help ease enterprise customers into the cloud--or at least, help them use cloud technology to help them with their business goals?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Manhattan Beach-based cloud computing software developer Morphlabs said today that it has appointed Lee Thompson as its new Chief Technology Officer. Morphlabs is the latest startup of Winston Damarillo, who has had prior success in a number of open source-based companies.= READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 26, 2013

Metacloud , a provider of managed, Openstack-based private cloud services, announced this morning that it has raised $10M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Canaan Partners, and also included Storm Ventures and AME Cloud. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2015

A common request I get while mentoring entrepreneurs is for a copy of the startup checklist they need to follow, in order to build a successful new business. His checklists cover everything from building a vision, to consistently delivering results, for entrepreneurs up to mature business executives. Cloud Computing.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. By definition?—?I’m two founders in a garage?—?(HP

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The Los Angeles-based operations and security management software service, Replicated has raised $25 million to ramp up its staffing and scale its sales and marketing efforts. As developers embrace Kubernetes, Replicated launches tools to manage its deployments. “Once we started building on that success. .

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2013

Lesson: As described in Go For The Quick Buck , wily startups also devise creative ways to secure funding from their customers, rather than from investors. Lesson: Startups are often faced with similar PR opportunities, which offer short-term rewards but may hamstring the venture in the long term. Any time will do."

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socalTECH

JULY 14, 2010

El Segundo-based Morphlabs , the latest startup of Winston Damarillo, is announcing today that it has raised $5.5M Morphlabs is developing a cloud-based computing appliance which is used to manage and deploy elastic computing clouds. in a Series B financing round. and AO Capital Partners Ltd. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The startup, which came out of technology developed from a group of university researchers, said the $2.8M Los Angeles-based Ninja Metrics announced this morning that it has raised $2.8M in a funding round, to bring its social analytics engine for gaming companies to market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2017

A common request I get while mentoring entrepreneurs is for a copy of the startup checklist they need to follow, in order to build a successful new business. His checklists cover everything from building a vision, to consistently delivering results, for entrepreneurs up to mature business executives. Cloud Computing.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Eucalpytus Systems , the venture funded startup developing open source, private cloud management software, said Thursday that it has released its first major update of its software. Tags: eucalyptus systems cloud computing softare. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. Sendgrid started in Summer of 2009 at TechStars in Boulder, and we've now grown dramatically to 100 employees and 60,000 customers. Explain why someone would use your service, rather than set up your own email servers?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

I will argue that when the dust settles, although we will have fewer firms, each type well end up more focused on traditional stage segments that cater to the core competencies of that firm. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in infrastructure just to get started and another $2.5 Enter Amazon.

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Xconomy

MAY 15, 2019

They’re startups that are developing products in a wide range of sectors, including life sciences, agriculture, and artificial intelligence. A majority of the startups are from Texas, although some come from elsewhere in the US and world, including California, Virginia, Mexico, and Israel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

A common request I get while mentoring entrepreneurs is for a copy of the startup checklist they need to follow, in order to build a successful new business. His checklists cover everything from building a vision, to consistently delivering results, for entrepreneurs up to mature business executives. Cloud Computing.

Technology 86

Technology Cloud Computing Social Media Networking 86

Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

Near the nation’s capital, Arlington, VA has a thriving startup community that supports female-led companies, startups in STEM, cyber security, defense, and everything in between aimed at improving the status quo. Meet the startups showcasing at Eureka Park Startup Arlington this year at CES 2018: BooleanGirl.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Here are some of the key new rules I have learned by starting my own company, investing as an angel in other startups and mentoring many more new entrepreneurs over the last few years: Do incorporate a company, but keep it simple. Too many entrepreneurs still think plans are for investors, and investors are required to build a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. He has helped many companies with this problem, and as an advisor to startups, I see the same common themes leading to growth slow-downs.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Neville Spiteri: We are a digital media startup, building a next generation studio that it is focusing on creating entertainment and web media, that scales to tens of hundreds of thousands of people, and potentially millions around the world. How did you decide to start all of this? Neville Spiteri: We're just getting started.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Startups Made Simple. www.pitchtheangels.com) Join Tech Coast Angels members and other start up investors at the 5th Annual Los Angeles Fast Pitch Competition. Fast Pitch Los Angeles is one of the best start up networking events of the year. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Don't miss it!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Lower costs to start a business (95% reduction), many more companies created & funded by angels / seed. Seed funds now represent 67% of all funds being created now, which is up 100% from 6 years ago. The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009? more than 5 years ago?—?and and hasn’t abated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Brand Officer.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 19, 2015

The company’s most valuable technical visionary, the person tasked with staying out in front of new technologies, developing the next generation of new products, and thinking “a mile above the box” is drawn into working on projects that are incremental to the product and to the existing business. Surrounding yourself with talent'

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Los Angeles-based Halla , a venture backed startup, focused on personalized recommendations for the food ordering industry. What were you doing before you started Halla? We ended up all going to three different colleges in the Fall of 2015. The company has raised $1.9M What is Halla?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Planning on starting your new business during your final years of college, or soon after? You need a laptop that can easily carry you threw school while still providing everything you want to start running your first venture. Prices go up to $1,600. Microsoft Surface Book. That’s in addition to an ultra HD 13.5-inch

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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.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Join us for a special evening with InfoWorld’s Dave Linthicum as he delves into global enterprise software trends with some of LA’s most successful SaaS and cloud computing companies. The opportunities cloud computing and SaaS afford management. Finding business agility in the cloud. Chief Digital Officers.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I recently spoke with Marten Mickos, the former CEO of MySQL and current CEO of Eucalyptus Systems , the leader in private cloud platforms. Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. In addition to heading up Eucalyptus, Marten is also on the Board of fellow-cloud company, RightScale.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Bootstrapping: Score PR for Your Start-Up, On the Cheap. Publicity and positive word-of-mouth can help grow your start-up into a successful venture. Bootstrapping bootstrap, Profitability, Startup.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

Microsoft plans to invest more in early stage startup companies through a new corporate venture fund, headed by former Qualcomm executives. The company’s startup accelerator program —henceforth to be known as Microsoft Accelerator—will continue hosting startups. Peggy Johnson.

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