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OCTOBER 21, 2009
On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). They have data from surveys they did with corporate development officers (e.g.
socalTECH
MARCH 1, 2017
Next week is the Montgomery Summit (www.montgomerysummit.com), one of the longest running technology conferences held in Los Angeles. It's now an internationally recognized showcase for technology here in Los Angeles, and we also get to showcase Southern California companies, as well. We've seen some notable successes.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 1, 2010
You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on. Similarly I liked to keep myself apprised of the technical decisions we were making. Dipping: As a decision maker you rely on information being passed to you by the people who report to you.
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JULY 26, 2010
It influenced a generation of tech marketers. The book popularized the technology adoption lifecycle curve that originally came out of Iowa State University shown below. So the early part of a technology company is about finding your hard core group of early adopters and making them passionate about your products.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 3, 2012
A lot of software startups have shied away from serving public institutions, despite a big market, due to concerns about how slow they adopt things. Once those states were signed up, and did lots of due diligence, it went easier. In the past, we had been a one product company. READ MORE>>.
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MARCH 19, 2013
And of course the most successful technology companies: Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com [duh], Oracle, Microsoft all have loads of sales people. As in, “Well, as a tech firm we put tons of effort into APIs so that you can do your own integrations. But they’re technology people not sales people!
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 9, 2010
For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.
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