Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

I found myself in such a situation upon a sale of my computer software company. And those that are total write-offs in which no one except perhaps the bank and lenders receive anything. There was no question that each of the five vice presidents had been greatly responsible for our success and getting us to the successful exit.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2020

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital said this morning that one of its portfolio companies, Provation Medical , has acquired MD-Reports , a provider of electronic medical record (EMR), practice management (PM), and report writing software. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Santa Barbara-based YArdi , which develops property management software, said it has added the ability to pay bills through its platform. ACcording to Yardi, it now can process payments for account receivable and acocunts payable, as part of its Yardi Voyager property management and accounting platform. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2014

Carpinteria-based online video education site Lynda.com said today that it has acquired Compilr , a developer of a software coding and development environment which lets people learn how to write, compile, and test code from their web browser. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. Many LPs want to write checks of $10 million or $25 million because they themselves have billions of dollars to manage.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2013

On my most important ones I spend as much time figuring out what to cut out as I do putting into the writing of it. Many people write email without a “call to action” or reason they’re writing the email. Write to one person at a time. This is critical and was the reason I sat down to write this post.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Motivated by the overarching mission to mitigate climate change events like wildfires, the Incline Village NV based startup has been drumming up a lot of attention throughout 2023 due to it's data-centric approach and it's software as a service (SaaS) payment model – which is unique for the ecological sector.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You may recall that Microsoft planned a new file system for Vista but pulled the file system from the product before release, and has not released the WinFS file system yet as of this writing, years later. Cowboy coding” is no longer common or permissible in the computer software industry, especially for enterprise systems.

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socalTECH

MAY 16, 2019

Diamandis which seeks to spur innovative solutions to the world's problems, has awarded $15M in the Global Learning XPRIZE , the prize which challenged innovators to create a way to enable children to teach themselves basic reading, writing and arithmetic within 15 months. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. If you’re going to play in the big leagues you need to be writing checks from a $700 million?—?$1 Are we in a bubble?” By definition?—?I’m of the fund.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2023

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work in-house. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Los Angeles- and Austin-based GameSalad , which develops software which helps people create iOS, Android, and web games, said Friday that its software now supports Windows 8 application development. GameSalad's tools allow users to create mobile applications and games without having to write code. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 24, 2019

Google was also a founding member of the Academy Software Foundation , an open source foundation that focuses specifically on tools for the film industry. That includes the launch of its Los Angeles cloud region last year, as well as its acquisition of the Zync cloud renderer back in 2014.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2016

Mountain View-based Wrike , a developer of enterprise work management software, said on Monday that it has opened up a new office in San Diego, and plans to hire 150 people in the location. Wrike is backed by Bain Capital, DCM Ventures, and Scale Venture Partners, and focuses on enterprise project management software. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2019

But tech companies are already writing the novel kinds of software these revolutionary computers will need in order to operate—and businesses are even helping to train the workforce for a future era of “quantum speed-up.’’ It’ll be some years before such uber-computers are robust and reliable enough for broad commercial use.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There were startups and a software industry but barely. Starting in 2009 I began writing checks consistently, year-in and year-out. They wanted to build new products, solve problems that were unfilled by the last generation of software companies and grow revenue year-over-year while holding costs in check. It was 1991.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2018

San Diego-based "code school" Origin Code Academy said this morning that it has rolled out a new, online-only, free course on programming and the basics of writing code. According to the school, the new course teaches some of the fundamentals of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Los Angeles-based freelance writing marketplace Ebyline said this week that it has launched a brand new product, which helps WordPress publishers pay contributors to their WordPress blog.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2011

Los Angeles-based Border Stylo , the developer of Write On Glass , software which allows you to share comments on any web page, chat with friends, and others all through Firefox and Chrome browsers, has scored $3.5M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week.

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Xconomy

JULY 3, 2019

No one has done more than Donald Norman to teach us that every piece of hardware and software—in fact, every human-made object, including the internet—embodies design decisions that aren’t always made with the best interests of users in mind.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2012

Singer/songwriter Avril Lavigne has tapped online software from Los Angeles-based startup Invested.in for a new crowdfunding campaign for her Avril Lavigne Foundation , according to Lavigne. Invested.in, which is headed by Alon Goren, helps power web-based crowdfunding sites for individuals, businesses, and charitable organizations.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2015

As a creative director at a software development company, I am always looking for ways to speed up our design and development process and to include as many people and teams working on the project. Then you use the panels in the app to theme your prototype without writing any code. Pretty, cool. Images Provided by Shutterstock.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Wish you could design and develop your own mobile games, but don't know how to write software? No problem!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. Do you have sales productivity software? Write out the topic and maybe even the blog title. By definition, you read blogs.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. Don't be fooled by a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. And when you have Poor Software Developers - Pull the Plug Early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2020

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work in-house. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2013

If you are a millenial entering the workforce, what would you be most comfortable with -- a tool designed to work and look like a social network, or a tool built around an old fashioned corporate enterprise software UI? PromoJam debuted its brand new, self-service version of its social promotions tool today, PromoJam 2.0,

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Nobody will be immune because in a bull market executives are paid to “innovate” so they sign software contracts and run projects. It takes time to sell in your software, get it implemented, prove the value, build a business case, gain executive support and then roll it out more broadly. What Do You Need to Prove to Raise an A Round?

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 2, 2017

After downloading the software, suddenly my computer began telling me information I never had before – the percent charge of the battery, the number of watts my system was drawing, the minutes of battery runtime available during a blackout, the variation in voltage coming from my utility. Didn’t think so….

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

High-performance software warms our hearts like a Super Bowl ad about water or an NBC Olympics athlete biography. But really, who doesn't love fast software? We are still gathering cloud results from Microsoft Azure and expect to post those for Round 15 soon. Performance. No one wants to wait for computers.

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Berkonomics

JULY 20, 2017

You may recall that Microsoft planned a new file system for Vista, but pulled the file system from the product before release, and has not released the WinFS file system yet as of this writing, years later. Cowboy coding” is no longer common or permissible in the computer software industry, especially for enterprise systems.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

But Sarandos doubled down on his defense of the special, writing an internal email that “content on screen doesn’t directly translate to real-world harm.” Netflix Senior Software Engineer Terra Field, who is transgender, tweeted a viral thread about the Chappelle special. Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images).

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2014

As we and our collaborators prepare Round 9 of our Framework Benchmarks project, we had an epiphany: With high-performance software, a single modern server processes over 1 million HTTP requests per second. Five months ago, Google talked about load-balancing to achieve 1 million requests per second. Running 30s test @ [link].

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 3, 2012

What do entrepreneurs, mathematicians, software engineers, physicists, physicians, biologists, anatomists, angels, venture capitalists and bankers have in common? Software engineers write the programs for computers to process the data. Entrepreneurs dream and bring the dreams to reality. Physicists invent the technology.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 19, 2012

Emphasis is on writing highly modular, scalable, high-performing enterprise software. This talk incorporates S.O.L.I.D. principles, commonly used and misused patterns, and gives an insight into both C# and website performance. In this talk you will learn how to use common patterns and principles in real-world scenarios.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 11, 2015

In my case as a young software entrepreneur, I had a different approach: Fail Locally, one customer at a time. I was fortunate that I could write software and doubly fortunate that my despair at working for ‘the Man’ – and feeling compelled to strike out on my own – coincided with the dawn of the personal computer era.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 7, 2019

Let AI write the script. Or Apple, which designs its own devices to carry out superior software experience,” explained Ma. Rct studio’s software takes a story arc and dissects it into a decision-making tree within seconds. Making our own films carry so many more possibilities than simply selling a piece of software.”

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