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. Most men in the 1940's and 50's did not know how to use a keyboard and thus could not write code.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. We took the recent round, because Jake and I feel very passionately about our social missions, and, about four years ago, we started developing the software to create software. They can go online, and answer questions.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2016

By avoiding an entire semester of Core classes (one fourth of my entire Wharton education), I was able to take every single entrepreneurial course offered by the University, while simultaneously earning a Minor Degree in drinking beer and playing poker. Writing / English / Public Speaking. Writ 105PS Writing for Public Speaking.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. If you can imagine, you can have your entire educational life online. Zareh Baghdasarian is the CEO of 15desks (www.15desks.com),

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 9, 2012

The startup has released free online educational materials in beta to the public. At the moment the startup has released biology, economics, psychology, sociology, anatomy and physiology, history and writing online materials for use in colleges.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

41:00 Transitioning from software to writing. 1:05:35 Middle class job of the next generation: software development! 1:09:50 We need education! Will these norms change? 36:30 Eric: Social media is great for people with social capital. 38:00 Should you use avatars? 40:05 What happened after Imvu. 1:06:05 The skills gap.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. But your co-founder had been senior at one of the big enterprise software companies and if I remember correctly American Express had run a big pilot with you. I call it, “Remind me why I love you again?”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over.

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Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 19, 2014

Here’s a simple historic lineage of the changing forms of correspondence over time: Writing Letters -> Telegraph (Morse Code) -> Typewriters -> PCs -> Word processors (spell check) -> Email -> SMS (word prediction and error correction) -> IM. Apps & Software Entrepreneurship Cyfr Evolution language Lingo'

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

This does not mean you shouldn’t solve big, complex problems or write complex code. He simply asserted, “the end of software” by putting up a logo with the word software and a red line through it. Just because it’s online doesn’t mean it’s not software. WTF does that even mean?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. Sunil Rajaraman: We provide free, web-based screenwriting software to aspiring writers and professionals in the community. What's Scripped? That is the way to attract writers.

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Creators and influencers like Bernstein are forging a path from content creator to full-fledged business, with multiple revenue streams via podcasts, licensing deals, branded merchandise and even software products. “A Podfund , for example, writes checks sized between $25,000 to $50,000 to emerging podcasters.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2010

Yossi Vardi: Israel has what a lot of countries have--good universities, well educated people, a high literacy rate, etc. What I have found, in consumer facing Internet and mobile applications, is it isn't much different from creating a good movie, a good TV show, or writing a good story, or even going to a good restaurant.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. Eying sustainability gains for its supply chain, BMW backs Boston Metal’s CO2-free iron production tech.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : Lynda.com is: “The best, new, online way to learn how to use your software. Like a true entrepreneur, even though you were young, you took control of your life and pursued an alternative education. Search for a specific answer or learn something new from start to finish. ”. Hello Kitty!”. Coffee or tea?

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : Lynda.com is: “The best, new, online way to learn how to use your software. Like a true entrepreneur, even though you were young, you took control of your life and pursued an alternative education. Value Prop Twitter Style: Lynda.com is: “The best, new, online way to learn how to use your software.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Whether it’s sensor-based medicine, computational contracts, education analytics, or computational agriculture—success is going to rely on being able to do computational thinking well. So now the question is how to educate kids about it. So when you write in it, you’re doing programming. I’ve noticed an interesting trend.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers, or a mobile smartphone app. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 16, 2015

If someone writes a note to you in the margin of your book or draws an arrow for you on a map, they are annotating a document for you. While this is certainly entertaining, the applications of this technology in fields like education and the arts are as exciting as emerging technologies get. Virtual reality replaces the real world.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And covered we did.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Back to regular writing this week so check back in. One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. I then worked in a computer store called Software Centre in high school and college (UCSD). I helped program my college’s recruiting office’s software system. I tell people regularly that I only invest in companies where the DNA is software.

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Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Tom tells us how he went from running Intuit's Tax Group--which is behind the popular TurboTax tax software--to his own startup, which allows non-technical, business users to create their own business forms and processes. How long has your software been available to customers? What is PerfectForms? Finally, what's next on your plate?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 27, 2015

For example, security suppliers will have to re-write firewalls for the new protocol, but without any single organization to set the direction of the deployment of IPv6, approaches will be in constant flux. Cisco just announced at the end of February that their NCS 6000 and Carrier Routing System have software bugs that needs patching.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, We had executives from the studios like Fox, Warner Bros and Disney. And of course we had, TheMan.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

James Chung: My previous background is in software engineering. All of that is taught at UCLA by the more senior students and professors, a mix which provides an incredible education. The site looks to be very well executed, where did you get the technology expertise to pull off the site?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In my view, no amount of academic education can prepare you for the challenges of running a business, but real experience will quickly open your eyes to some of the challenges, and let you know how much you enjoy responding to these on a day-to-day basis. Write a business plan for your desired new business.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

I write this post as a warning to pick your VC’s carefully. Many years ago I worked at Andersen Consulting, originally developing software for large corporations and then as a strategy consultant. Beware of VC Seagulls, who shit on you and then fly away (or worse yet leave you with Red Herrings). Let me explain.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. 9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Milo Sindell: Knowledge Genie is a software platform that anybody can use to capture, package, and publish what they know into an interactive online software application. Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. What is the idea behind Knowledge Genie?

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

The company also educates people about their rights on capture data when interacting with law enforcement. Their speech recognition software has a high level of accuracy, as though a human was transcribing the information. Once uploaded, the company safeguards the data in their secure cloud. DatavizVR (Austin, TX).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The truth is I have been thinking a lot about the topic, I just haven’t been writing about it. million to launch a SaaS software company and we took $2.5 I plan to write about this phenomenon soon. I would love to see Tara follow up with blog posts on: why she believes this is the case & what we can do about it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Writing specialists. Whether you are in manufacturing or software, you need experienced writers who can document your latest technology, write patents, and efficiently manage the multitude of data formats required by printing companies and advertisers. Software specialists. We are becoming a society of entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

. - Journalists don’t know enough about your company before the show, don’t have time for proper research, and you will be competing for their time afterward with 49+ other companies that want them to write about you. - If you’re Yammer , Mint or RedBeacon (all winners) you’re knighted with wonderful coverage.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

It was a pleasure to write them myself. Bill had previously created a packaged software company called Knowledge Adventure the produced children’s educational software. He bought a copy of Lotus 1-2-3 (a predecessor to Excel for those youngens) and programmed his own accounting software for his business.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of. Cyrus Farudi – Co-founder of Capsule. MUST be on this list!!

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Writing specialists. Whether you are in manufacturing or software, you need experienced writers who can document your latest technology, write patents, and efficiently manage the multitude of data formats required by printing companies and advertisers. Software specialists. We are becoming a society of entrepreneurs.

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