SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Software Society. A Practical Guide to Moving to the Cloud, Lowering Costs, and Improving your Competitiveness IBM, Corent Technology and RightScale are participating at this Technology Council of Southern California breakfast event on December 7th at IBM's Costa Mesa Conference Center. Cloud Made Easy!

Technology Council 113

Technology Council TCOSC IBM IBM 113

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

“This could also be due to changes in the competitive landscape … and there may be changes with First Round Capital itself,” says one investor. — Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 29, 2020. Mamoon Hamid is heading from Social Capital to Kleiner Perkins. “Mamoon is a pretty legit, good investor.

IBM 164

IBM IBM Venture Capital Invest 164

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

For example, I grew up in IBM when Bill Gates was helping us deliver the first IBM PC. We slowly realized that Microsoft’s value went far beyond his technical contributions, due to his connections with key software developers and relationships with hardware manufacturers who could make the PC revolution universal.

IBM 87

IBM IBM Ideas Technical Review 87

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2021

There is no substitute for talking to customers, analyzing your competition, and honing your solution to meet a target market segment. In general, I see that the strategic cycle for most companies gets longer and longer as they mature, which kills any ability to stay competitive. Cost of a solution execution experiment is low.

Marketing 138

Marketing Demand IBM IBM 138

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

To update Marc Andreessen’s widely publicized quote from 2011, “OpenStack Software Defined Networks (SDNs) are eating the world.” For instance, in 2000 Gartner created the term Supranet to describe how software would connect disparate hardware – proclaiming the advent of the Internet Of Things a decade and a half too early.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Networking Software 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Our 2019 investment in Backtracks, a developer of podcast analytics software, has shown fantastic traction and continues to provide value to podcast creators helping them to better understand their listeners and monetize their content. Think Google Ad Words for podcasting. At the same time, more capital continues to be raised in LA.

Capital 100

Capital Technical Review Truecar Venture Capital 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Most experienced business people love to help, but they don’t have the time or interest to give you a course on basic business concepts, like the need to be competitive. I get much more satisfaction, and can provide more realistic help, in steering you through specific pricing, organizational, or competitive challenges you face.

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Help Entrepreneur Course IBM 123

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2015

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM, Intel, and other hardware manufacturers. An example of a startup which used non-organic growth early and effectively was Microsoft.

Organization 100

Organization Startup Competition IBM 100

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 29, 2014

” Additional partners including IBM, Deloitte, Nod Labs, and Plantronics have also registered to participate. Winners of the competition will be awarded space in the Wearable World Labs program incubator space in San Francisco as well as the opportunity to partner with American Airlines on product development.

Technology 104

Technology Conference IBM IBM 104

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Software Secretaries. Software coding was initially considered "woman's work," as it involved typing the commands onto punchcards, which was akin to taking dictation via a typewriter. One of these bright lights is Santa Barbara-based HG Data - developers of the world's largest competitive-intelligence database. <Note:

Company 100

Company Companies Santa Barbara Education 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. www.pitchtheangels.com) Join Tech Coast Angels members and other start up investors at the 5th Annual Los Angeles Fast Pitch Competition. Middle Market Investment Banking. GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com). Startups Made Simple. Dedicated to our Clients.

Southern California 113

Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM and other hardware manufacturers. An example of a startup which used non-organic growth early and effectively was Microsoft.

Entrepreneur 99

Entrepreneur Organization Startup Competition 99

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

I have seen this happening firsthand from my years of experience in several big-name companies, including IBM and Fujitsu. In software, hackers love the intellectual challenge of confronting a system designed to do one thing and cleverly exploit it to achieve something different. Loves to “hack” new outcomes from existing systems.

Company 93

Company Companies Software Review IBM 93

Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

The bigger public players – Cisco, Check Point, HP, IBM, Symantec, and others – need to continually add to their arsenal of security solutions as the threat landscape continues to evolve. Symantec Forces the Industry to Stay Competitive. In general, M&A is a natural part of the IT security market. Why is this happening?

Symantec 40

Symantec IBM IBM Acquisition 40

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest, former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), co-founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Pull Quote: “If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life.

Entrepreneur 232

Entrepreneur Competition Software Review Course 232

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM and other hardware manufacturers. An example of a startup which used non-organic growth early and effectively was Microsoft.

Startup 93

Startup Organization Competition IBM 93

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. Where does Webtide fit into the software world?

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

IBM bought Resilient Systems , Cisco Systems snapped up CloudLock , Symantec acquired Blue Coat , and Carbon Black purchased Confer , to name a few. Such credentials enable access to an organization’s software systems for tasks like implementing updates or managing devices on the network.

Press 40

Press Symantec Organization IBM 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Software provides intelligent, real-time data analytics across a wide variety of disparate, unstructured enterprise content types. Software Helps companies rapidly convert unstructured online data and content into structured data assets that can be used to create new products, revenue Streams, and enhance current online data sets.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Whether that''s for competitive analysis or market analysis, our product is basically able to monitor--on a very large scale--things that are important to your particular company. We grew that up, and did very well, and eventually sold it to IBM. There''s a fair amount of software and computer science involved in this area.

Orange County 245

Orange County Startup News IBM 245

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2010

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM and other hardware manufacturers. An example of a startup which used non-organic growth early and effectively was Microsoft.

Acquisition 85

Acquisition Startup Organization Competition 85

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest , former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), Co-Founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do, you will have the best experience of your life.

Blogging 219

Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Assume competition and assume within the buying organization you have enemies. I built my first software company in the early days of SaaS and there were few models to go by. One thing I observed was that many customers wanted an “on premise” version of our software and were willing to pay extra money for it.

Sales 150

Sales SaaS Startup Venture Capital 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2012

As an example, a few years ago I worked for small software company selling an expensive enterprise workflow product. For example, IBM , Intel , and other large companies routinely allocate and manage venture funds to invest in startups with new technology that may in fact be competitive with their own. Marty Zwilling.

Company 96

Company Companies Startup Examples 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2011

As an example, a few years ago I worked for small software company selling an expensive enterprise workflow product. For example, IBM , Intel , and other large companies routinely allocate and manage venture funds to invest in startups with new technology that may in fact be competitive with their own. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 90

Startup Examples Custom Customer 90

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

The whole Journey app building experience takes place inside your web browser, so there’s no software to install. Any competition? Products such as IBM Worklight , Tiggzi, Appcelerator Titanium , Sencha, Sybase Mobile and Oomnitza operate in the same broad space as us. How does it work? How unique are you from it?

Mobile 65

Mobile Platform JavaScript Web 65

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. It’s Easy to Be Great…It’s Hard to Be Consistent - Software By Rob , November 4, 2010 No link from TechCrunch, write-up on Mashable, mention by Leo Laporte, or Tweet by Ashton Kucher is going to make your business. This post is an accusation.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. One guy was the creator of Microsoft Excel and the other created the first network for IBM. (No,

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Chief Technology Officer Technical Review 40