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MARCH 17, 2016

GoToMyPC.com : As John Greathouse, a local investor and advisor--who helped start GoToMyPC describes, during the high-tech recession of 2001 - 2003, GoToMyPC sold a substantial number of licenses of its software, specifically due to customers looking for ways to save money during the recession.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

The Ultra-Efficient Thin-Film Solar Cells team at Caltech is developing solar cells which solve the problem of current photovoltaic panels, where there is a lot of loss of material due to trimming of silicon wafers. The last university team recognized by Popular Mechanics comes out of UCLA. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 13, 2012

Thursday, July 19, 2012 -- The Emerging Wireless and Mobile Software Development SIG: Near Field Communications. We will review current technology and its deployment challenges in the dominant mobile wallet ecosystem. It has been in development and slow deployment for a decade.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2019

Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? The macro climate will be volatile due to uncertainly from an unstable president, a slowing overall economy and the China America trade negotiationsas well as the inevitable slowing of a 10 year run.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Friday, October 8, 2010 -- Adding Human-Centered Design to Software Requirements Engineering. In earlier SPIN presentations, the speaker covered several topics in software requirements, in particular use cases and examples of their use and misuse. See [link].

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 You would have met many smart people who live a mediocre life. The Exit Disconnect - Ask the Angels , March 25, 2010 I’ll admit to having a bias towards exits and focus my review of a potential investment on the exit potential. There are MANY of them.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. If a VC term sheet comes in they begin their due diligence process. A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding.

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Seed Funding Venture Capital Funding Software Review 283

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

OpenX is profitable, and its ad serving software dominant among online publishers. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. range of software products, and which has offices in Calabasas and Santa Barbara. Deploying software in the cloud? The company recently reported record. RightScale.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

We've made some investments here and there, and are now building a team, and making a lot of investments in SoCal tech companies. My CIO had been ex-CIO at Herbalife, and was an EVP of Software for Disney. We hired the ex-CTO of Sears, and other senior executives out of Disney in software. What's the theme of your investments?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

It's the same as when I've created financial models and then have it reviewed by a hard-core CFO, sophisticated investor or similar kind of expert. And in the case of defining mobile/web/software, there is even more variability in terms of form and format. I'm never trying to embarrass someone. I know how it feels.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

My favorite new software tool is DailyBurn. Problem is – Weight Watchers software TOTALLY SUCKS. If you have an iPhone you can scan the UPC code on the food you eat and they will be entered directly into DailyBurn done through a partnership with a company called Occipital. I’m not that public about my weight.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup SoCal 278

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Tech Diligence - Consider The Source. Rather, we value entrepreneurs' time and thus our diligence generally includes introducing them to potential customers and partners. Although the expert’s startup and Twilio never formed a partnership, our collaborative approach to diligence did benefit Jeff and his team.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

The great NorCal vs. SoCal debate is a longstanding, undeniable rivalry between the stereotypical surfer dudes of the south and environmental geeks to the north. There are a lot of misconceptions about SoCal and it’s time we set them straight. MYTH 1: SoCal’s nothing but beaches, Housewives, and Mickey Mouse. Windows Phone.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! They had agreed!

Outsource Development 333

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 333

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! They had agreed!

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 29, 2011

The 2011 IGIC conference will be a platform for disseminating peer-reviewed papers, state-of-the-art demonstrations and special industry oriented sessions that describe innovative research and development of hardware and software game technologies. Participants are from industry, academia and government. See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 28, 2011

The 2011 IGIC conference will be a platform for disseminating peer-reviewed papers, state-of-the-art demonstrations and special industry oriented sessions that describe innovative research and development of hardware and software game technologies. Participants are from industry, academia and government. See [link] (more)

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Conference Software Review Technical Review Research 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The 2011 IGIC conference will be a platform for disseminating peer-reviewed papers, state-of-the-art demonstrations and special industry oriented sessions that describe innovative research and development of hardware and software game technologies. Participants are from industry, academia and government. See [link] (more)

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Conference Software Review Technical Review Research 100

Steve Reich

JUNE 11, 2012

The good news is you can do it, too, and there are great examples in Socal. MindBodyOnline is a terrifically succesful SaaS company, based in San Luis Obispo, that provides scheduling and transactional software for Yoga studios, hair salons, and spas. They read product reviews obsessively. Reviews are again routinely glowing.

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Customer Custom Software Review SaaS 97

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I provided a whole set of questions that I go through with founders before Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything. What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? Accounting?

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socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

Many companies would love to be able to get the benefits of cloud--easy configurability, low cost, scaling, and more--but, due to various reasons, can''t take advantage of public cloud services like Amazon. With our software, our clients just inherited the ability to use Ceph, and there was nothing they had to do to get that.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Unfortunately, we are web, mobile, software, database guys. Generally I can provide quite a bit of help in that brief time. What Is This?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Unfortunately, we are web, mobile, software, database guys. Generally I can provide quite a bit of help in that brief time. What Is This?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

It broke the hegemony that the carriers had over software on mobile phones and the industry will forever be changed (for the better) for this. But I believe it’s a very comprehensive solution and our due diligence with large app developers confirmed as much. Tags: Featured SoCal Stuff. What does it do?

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

Peter Lee: Essentially, we are Southern California focused, through we will be looking at out of SoCal investments--we're not closing our doors to those, but our interest is really in focusing down here. He's still be an advisor, and will get involved because he likes to, but he'll be leveraging my efforts. or $1.5M, for our first investment.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

Also, as any changes to each login will be handled by JanRain, you wont have to keep updating your authentication code if changes are made by the login provider. Now click the "Generate Code" button. Youll be given two code snippets that look something like this: This code should go immediately before the tag.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Adam Miller transformed his company into one of the world’s leading software-as-a-service companies, specifically in the HR world. A SoCal native and graduate of both UCLA and USC, Richard Rosenblatt led the growth of MySpace from an unknown to a household name. Iraq a hard place to work, is not SoCal. billion in shares.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Most of the great software startups that I’ve been involved in have at least one technical co-founder (and many have more than one.) So before you ask someone to even spend an hour of their time writing code or reviewing specs make sure you can pay them in some form (coffee, dinner, laptop, etc.),

CTO Hire 241

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. How could a company like ours be so callous as not to support their software (even one more than 4 years out of date)? They hired a consultant to help them with the review. we would support 6.0 which was in beta).

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Startup Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review 151

SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I just got an email asking about exactly this: I''m with a new company that needs some software built, but doesn''t need (or have the resources for) a large staff of software developers. Do not fall into the trap of Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. What are the review periods?

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Web Development Web Develop Development 204

SoCal CTO

APRIL 22, 2010

In fact, a cursory review of some of this information suggests that there are quite a few other kinds of inputs that will make a lot of sense such as the kinds of roles that the person naturally falls into. Then in code. fit into a matching algorithm. You make sure it works first via a spreadsheet. Make sure this is fairly robust.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

There are a bunch of questions in Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything , Startup Founder Developer Gap , and in Startup CTO or Developer. Interviewing and Hiring Process Get a resume and LinkedIn profile and review both closely: Do they know the world of startup technology?

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CTO Hire CTO Coach Technical Review Startup 282

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible. In SoCal we have Crosscut Ventures, Matt Coffin, Mike Jones, Klaus Schauser, etc. I can’t really speak generically to this because the Tech Coast Angels / Pasadena in SoCal have produced Green Dot, MyShape and many other successes.

Angel 291

Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

There are a bunch of questions in Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything , Startup Founder Developer Gap , and in Startup CTO or Developer. Interviewing and Hiring Process Get a resume and LinkedIn profile and review both closely: Do they know the world of startup technology?

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CTO Hire CTO Coach Technical Review Startup 225

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Review the code being built. The "Questions" post is probably the most important. Plan for past the initial MVP.

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