socalTECH

JULY 3, 2018

Los Angeles-based financial automation software developer BlackLine has boosted its leadership in the Asia Pacific region, saying on Monday that it has named Terry Smagh as Senior Vice President overseeing its Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. He most recently was working for IBM's Asia-Pacific cloud and analytics business.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2010

Hungtington Beach-based Axceleon , a developer of software used to manage cloud computing, said today that its EnFuzion3D software has been selected by MDeC Malaysia. The firm said the software will be used to manage a 128 node IBM BladeCenter rendering farm. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2009

Pasadena-based X1 Technologies , the document indexing and search software firm backed by Idealab, disclosed this morning that it has released two upgrades to its software. Among the updates is a new release of its X1 Profesisonal Client software, and a new versino of its connector to the Symantec Enterprise Vault product.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , which develops human capital management and employee learning software, has cut its sales head count, and shuffled its sales and services organizations, the company said late Wednesday. com, SAP, and IBM. It also named Jeff Lautenbach as President of Global Field Operations. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The firm said its Personalized Marketing Platform is aimed at brand, to help them turn their fans into customers. The firm's software runs across such social services as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Pinterest and Instagram. and also served at IBM and other companies.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. What does Chrome River's software do? With this acquisition, that has put Concur into SAP.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The firm said its Personalized Marketing Platform is aimed at brand, to help them turn their fans into customers. The firm's software runs across such social services as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Pinterest and Instagram. and also served at IBM and other companies.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 15, 2018

Daniel Kim and Jay Lee, the two founders of AuditBoard , a Los Angeles-based provider of a risk and compliance software service for large businesses, grew up middle school friends in Cerritos, Calif. I couldn’t believe there wasn’t a software for compliance and risk,” Lee said.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

He also spearheaded a number of fundamental software breakthroughs, including creating the basic hardware / software architecture which resulted in the creation of the third-party personal computer (PC) software industry. Designed CD-ROM filing system and created Universal Software Bus.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2012

Manhattan Beach-based MorphLabs is rolling out a new piece of cloud software today, focused on solid state drive (SSD) storage. The software startup--the latest run by WInston Damarillo--said its new mCLoud Data center Unit (DCU) software is an end-to-end, SSD cloud platform for data centers, service providers, and enterprise customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2020

I worked with Bill Gates in the early days of Microsoft and the IBM PC, while I was with IBM. Bill was relentless in his focus on getting the software PC DOS project delivered, while continually challenging us with new business models. Customer acquisition, retention, and support.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2011

Aliso Viejo-based Corent , which develops software tools to more easily port traditional software to the software-as-a-service model, has raised $3.2M Corent CEO Feyzi Fatehi confirmed the round, saying that the firm is seeing lots of traction from firms looking to "SaaS"-ify their software. in a funding round.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

Now Microsoft has responded with a play of its own, partnering with the provider of a suite of hosted graphic design and animation software tools called Nimble Collective. “We’re excited to work with innovators like Nimble Collective to help them transform how animated content is produced, managed and delivered.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2021

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. For entrepreneurs, effective networking is required to find investors, partners, and customers. Customer retention. More customers are lost to apathy after the sale than poor service or quality. Investor negotiations.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. The technology is now embodied in a solution that can be replicated to reliably solve a real customer problem. Commercial product prototypes. Expanding the product line.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Beverly Hills-based private equity firm Shackleton Advisors announced today that it has acquired SafeHarbor Technology , a Seattle-based provider of software for managing inbound telephone, email, and chat requests. Tags: shackleton equity partners private safeharbor merger acquisition software.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 2, 2016

Sales at Salesforce.com for nine years; he also has served at IBM. Accurate Background provides an API-driven product which allows customers to automate background checks and integrate them into mobile and web applications. Hebert was most recently VP of Industry Vertical Sales at Box.com, and previously served at VP of Western U.S.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Southern California--despite the lack of huge, name brand firms-- has a significant number of enterprise software companies, of which Network Automation is just one. Our marquis customers are companies like Citibank and Lowe's Corporation, along with many others. About 30 to 45 percent of our business is international.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Entrepreneurs talk to customers and competitors talk to each other about the new trends and technologies they see. Evaluate customer response prior to development. Surface your prototype, get customer feedback, make corrections, and iterate until you get it right. Being open is the new business culture around the world.

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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. You already have a large and loyal customer base. Some customers are so loyal that they will follow you anywhere. Some customers are so loyal that they will follow you anywhere.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

There’s a famous scene in Pirates of Silicon Valley (a movie that chronicled the origins of Microsoft and Apple) in which Bill Gates is meeting with IBM executives. The IBM executives agree to license software from Microsoft because “there’s no money in software anyways.”

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The company said it already has a number of customers, including Cricket Wireless's Muve Music streaming service. Miller has previously served at such companies as IBM, Platform Computing, Cray Inc., The new company is headed by Ian Miller, and is backed by startup incubator Elevator Labs. PolyServe and Hewlett-Packard. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. The technology is now embodied in a solution that can be replicated to reliably solve a real customer problem. Commercial product prototypes. Expanding the product line.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. Good stuff. Posted byTony Karrer at 6:58 AM 1 comments: Jon Miller said.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Monrovia-based Tanner Research , which provides technology research, electronic design automation (EDA) software, and other products and services, said Tuesday that it has been awarded a SBIR Phase I contract worth $100,000 from the Army Research Office. Tanner's customers include NASA, JPL, Microsoft, the U.S.

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Xconomy

MARCH 26, 2018

Artificial intelligence innovation has become part of our everyday lives—retailers use it to tailor the product recommendations they make; biotech companies hope it can create customized medicine. But its shortcomings, born of human biases, are becoming apparent as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Most of the entrepreneurs I advise today are ready to declare success when they get that first surge of traction with a real customer. You need to find investors for funding, vendors for volume manufacturing, processes for repeatable execution, as well as marketing and distribution to attract customers far beyond your pilot rollout.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

Look for validation from your mainstream customers. No matter how passionately you believe that everyone needs one, and positive feedback from friends and early adopters (false positives), before you invest in scaling the business, make sure you set and meet good metrics in cost of customer acquisition, recurring sales, and margin.

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

Kofax, which develops document capture software, said that Hendrickson joins the firm from the Service and Support Professionals Association (SSPA), and has also served at Agentis Software, BEA Systems, JFH Associates, Informix, international Customer Solutions, and IBM Corporation.

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Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2011

Even with the usual discount of 10%, the margins on hardware were high, especially when applied to prices that exceeded $30,000 per sale. . In the early eighties, IBM helped the PC become a tool of the office, and the product crossed over from use by early adopters to the mass market.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. Costello and Sons Insurance Brokers (www.costelloandsons.com).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2015

I worked with Bill Gates in the early days of Microsoft and the IBM PC, while I was with IBM. Bill was relentless in his focus on getting the software PC DOS project delivered, while continually challenging us with new business models. Customer acquisition, retention, and support.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

One of the hottest areas in enterprise and cloud software has been the move by the industry to adopt technologies like NoSQL, a way to tap into the distributed nature of the cloud to accelerate distributed applications. Ian Miller: FatCloud is a data management and software platform company with a NoSQL database.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2009

Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. Providing IBM Storage Solutions. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Costello and Sons Insurance Brokers (www.costelloandsons.com). GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com).

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 1, 2015

IBM has announced today a solution to this problem called Bluemix Local. “With the delivery of Bluemix Local , IBM now has the broadest spectrum of hybrid cloud capability in the industry,” said Steve Robinson, general manager, Cloud Platform Services, IBM. ” IBM gave this example.

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