socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

We caught up with Catalog's co-founder and CEO Patrick Ip , along with co-founder Jacobo Lumbreras , to learn more about the startup. Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. What's your background?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. What should not be in your deck?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

The most important thing to be careful about is to be sure WHY you’re doing the PS business. This might mean helping customers buy traffic, arb’ing deals, helping with RTB pricing or trading, etc. Minimize Any Custom Work That Will Not Feed Back Into Your R&D. At a minimum co-ownership of the IP.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

IP Confusion – Questionable ownership of key intellectual property, including non-exclusive licenses, potential infringement of a third party’s technology and/or inappropriate use of open-source tools. As such, make it easy for investors to unequivocally evaluate the veracity of your venture's IP.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

How do you go about trying to completely disrupt the entire telecom industry? If you're FreedomPop , the Encino-based startup, you start by offering up free 4G wireless data access, and then expand to offer free, voice-over-IP services, along with home-based wireless Internet services. Instead, we use the Internet model.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This enables internal users to swiftly find answers to queries such as "What is our internal IP address?" Utilizing AI, the tool interprets the queries, scans through a broad range of documents spread across different repositories, and delivers relevant answers. or "How can I modify my direct deposit account?"

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn a lot more about the sector/industry. You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. What we are talking about is a spectrum of how you restrict early communications around your business: Who you will talk to including the public / press / etc. You’ll get suggestions for improvements.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Business tools — from customer relationship management ( CRM ) platforms to accounting software — help to save startups time and money by automating key processes and maximizing efficiency. Best Marketing Tools for Startups Getting the word out about your business is essential, especially if you're early on in your journey.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

PT as they kick off the new weekly tech law show "TechZulu Law" with a discussion with IP attorney Denise Grayson, who portrays the attorney of Eduardo Saverin in the film about the early days of Facebook, "The Social Network.". Tech Law Tip of the Week: explanation of a frequently-asked IP law question for tech companies.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We spoke with Jim Franklin , the firm's CEO, to hear more about how the company went from an accelerator startup at TechStars just a few years ago, to now more than 100 employees spread across offices in Boulder; Colorado, Anaheim, California; Frankfurt; London, and elsewhere, to tackle the problems of transactional email.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

In the spirit of the “land grab” mentality of the day, we emphasized usage of our screen sharing technology with no thought applied to how we would convert such users into paying customers. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. free weekly Infochachkie articles! The Internet Should Be Free.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn a lot more about the sector/industry. You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. What we are talking about is a spectrum of how you restrict early communications around your business: Who you will talk to including the public / press / etc. You’ll get suggestions for improvements.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

The thing is – even if your services business is a smaller scale than this – you have complete control over the decisions about where to take the business. You own the IP you create. True, the 15% rates will likely go up in the future, but I doubt they will approach the income tax percentage level.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

You may not be aware of all the data your company stores, or whether it is usable at the atomic level – by source location or name or IP address. Make a short list of all the places you know you accumulate information about your customers and prospects. Then decide whether there is unmined gold in those undiscovered places.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2019

Tell us a bit about yourself? One of the things that really gives me faith in our country, and excitement about the state of our nation, is the innovation that is going on everwhere throughout our country. I think the vision and the selling, for investors, for employees, and for customers, is really a core skill.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2013

I’ve written a lot about recruiting and hiring at startups including my controversial post on whom not to hire and my rapid response to the flame war. I’ve also written extensively on sales and on which sales execs to hire and how to think about the different kinds of sales leaders. Not always, of course.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

We caught up with Lee Essner , the President of Jukin Media, to learn more about how the company thinks it has figured out how to make a business round viral videos. Can you talk about those businesses? The nice thing about those two businesses, is they feed each other nicely. It''s much more about quality, than quantity.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

We spoke with CEO and co-founder Spencer Price to learn more about the company. It's a much smarter way of understanding shopping behavior, using data about human tastes to deliver recommendations to grocery consumers. The customer is really struggling to regain their lost humanity. The company has raised $1.9M What is Halla?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. www.socalip.com) Focused on high tech's unique need - Pragmatic cost-effective IP portfolio management - U.S. How about $70? We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Think Glendale.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. What is your VoIP service all about, and how is this different from what seems to be lots of Voice over IP service providers?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

But what about the privacy / confidentiality concern? I wrote more about “ why you should send the damn deck ” in a previous post and you should 100% send a deck and not send a link (read my post for why). Compelling. Visually stunning (in this day and age this is becoming a sine qua non ). Poppycock. whether they invest or not.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. Those are just two examples of the customers we well directly to.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Are you cynical about their chances in the market just because they seem to be hot in the press and that bugs you? Albert Wenger from Union Square Ventures wrote a great post the other day that reminded me I’ve been meaning to write about this topic. How about “agree” and “disagree” buttons? But I tape the shows.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We caught up with Kanaan to learn more about uCast Global. Thats what uCast is all about. Those technologies allow us to scale and offer a superior product for customers. Who are your core customers? Kanaan Jemili:We have about six areas we focus on. Kanaan Jemili. What is uCast? Number six are publishers.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Companies must learn to become ecosystem drivers – even if only for a subset of their customers – in order to survive. A distinguishing feature of this model is that they are the destination in their space for a subset of their customers. And these companies have deep knowledge of their customers through data.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

This all got me thinking about a post on how to best work with lawyers. When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. Shame about that pesky FAS 157 ruling.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 27, 2022

This round comes about eight months after PortalOne raised a $15 million seed round , also notable for its size and the backers. It included games icon Atari, which is working with PortalOne to include some of its brands and IP in that Arcade launch.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2012

We chatted with Vic before the firm's latest acquisition (announced last week) and after the firm's recent acquisition of Anue Systems, about what goes into the whole process. It's about 500M in size today, but the key distinction is it's growing pretty fast 30-40% CAGR. It's pretty sustained, strong growth we see there.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

We spoke with CEO Michael Witz about the company. Tell us a little bit about Mob Science, games that you develop? We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform. How did that happen?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We spoke with Greg Memo , the company''s CEO, and Nate Williams , the company''s CMO, about the company and its new funding. What is your product all about? Our flagship customers are in utilities, manufacturers, and lighting manufacturers. Companies have been talking about connecting the home for decades.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

” If you don’t create the message about yourself, the market will. As I talked about in “ Is it Time to Learn or Time to Earn ” – overwhelmingly the best economics go to those that start successful companies. And if you want to be a CEO one day you need the messaging to reflect that.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2016

Justin and Dawn Newton , the co-founders of Netki, spoke to us about the company and its solution. What is Netki's product all about? Dawn Newton: As an example, when you go to Google.com, it is actually routing to an IP address. Right now, wallet addresses are 32-bit, alphanumeric, case sensitive strings.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” I know this seems obvious but I promise you that even smart people forget this when talking about profitability. ” Harsh, but reality.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Danielle goes through some commentary from Bill Gurley, Fred Wilson and Marc Andreessen about burn rate and then goes on to discuss her own burn rate and others publicly weigh in. if you have a good use for it and we’re excited about your company – fine. But what IS the right amount of burn for a company?

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Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

One of the biggest turn offs for investors are founders who don’t know the basics of their business, especially their market and customer. They have to know their industry, know their customers, and understand what it takes to make their customers happy.”. Failing to do their homework is never a good color on anyone.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. Our analytics team is second to none, in our ability to leverage our IP and methods to isolate the effect of those activities, and look at them to figure out how to drive outcomes.

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