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Using Generative AI to Drive Corporate Impact

TechEmpower

Key Functions with High Impact Generative AI is revolutionizing sales by enabling dynamic pricing and personalized customer interactions, boosting conversion rates and customer satisfaction. By automating routine and complex tasks alike, AI allows engineers to focus on innovation and strategic tasks.

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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

socalTECH

Our marketplace is organized like a used item marketplace, like Amazon or eBay, or Craiglist, in that a seller lists an item, picks a cause, and sets a price. James Chung: My previous background is in software engineering. It's just like Craigslist, except the money goes to support causes. Where did the idea come from?

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

It’s a very smartly designed debenture program. Or the huge dividends that Santa Barbara got from building GoToMeeting that sold for a nice price to Citrix. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. There are two reasons you need local capital.

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

socalTECH

Running on a Dell pizza box, we can run 20 times as many calls as other software, giving us the lowest cost basis in the industry. Our major designer was the number two guy on the Lucent 5E development program, so we understand how to design scalability into telecom apps, and scale seamlessly, better than our competitors.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.