socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based MaestroDev , the developer of private cloud computing software, has officially named Doug Dennington as the firm's new President. Dennington was most recently Director, Open Source Sales at Progress Software and IONA Technologies, and was also a member of the founding team at Simula Labs, LogicBlaze, and Gluecode.

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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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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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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? That's given us a lot of the attention in the space.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Los Angeles-based Dreamhost , and Los Angeles cloud computing software firm Morphlabs both said this week that they have become founding Gold members of the new group. The foundation said it will help the development, distribution and adoption of the OpenStack cloud software.

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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. We are handling IT processes which are normally the purview of large players like BMC and CA Technology, HP, and IBM--considered the Big 4 in IT administration.

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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. We sell directly to big enterprises, like IBM and Cisco.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

I built my first software company in the early days of SaaS and there were few models to go by. One thing I observed was that many customers wanted an “on premise” version of our software and were willing to pay extra money for it. It is the opposite of what SaaS is supposed to be. So we took a stand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Even many well-known corporate giants, including IBM and GE, have transformed, redefined, and re-invigorated their businesses into services businesses, and are downplaying their traditional product focus. Here is just a sampling to give you the idea: Software as a service (SaaS).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

She bought our first computer – an IBM XT with a 10MB hard drive – in order to do her books electronically. million to launch a SaaS software company and we took $2.5 She was the dominant figure in my family and was both an entrepreneur and a community leader. She opened a bakery and a restaurant.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2010

Later came a flood of software packages that stored an encrypted version of your userids and passwords on your hard file. IBM invented this, but most others have it now also. IBM invented this, but most others have it now also. Secure Services Corporation has a software implementation that uses biometrics.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

This was a reasonable achievement when you consider that it was 2001-02, one of the worst years to be selling enterprise software and we were selling it SaaS style, which was still evangelical back then. SaaS was hot so I was able to land a very impressive guy. In our second year of sales we did $5.9

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2010

A typical definition (from Wikipedia) is that “cloud computing, is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand, like a public utility.” That’s about 25 words which I’m certain doesn’t paint much of a picture to the entrepreneurs I know.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

But it’s now looking to be a banner year for significant advances in social software standards and technologies, many of them to address well-known shortcomings and inconveniences in today’s Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 This is very much the case with the social Web. You can follow Dion on Twitter.

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