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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based MaestroDev , a firm developing Java build, test, and release tools for the software development community, has uncloaked at the JavaOne conference, exposing the latest firm started by GlueCode founder Winston Damarillo. Doug Dennington--who was VP of Business Development at GlueCode--serves as President of MaestroDev.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Tagging along for the ride are a motley assortment of millionaires and billionaires, movie stars and media moguls that are providing the money the rocket launch services provider and manufacturer of large-scale, 3-D printers needs to achieve its goals. space industry.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2010

ValueClick said the agreement comes after a period of integration, deployment, and testing of LucidMedia's technology. LucidMedia's technology is used for advertising management and targeting, for both direct response and brand advertising campaigns. Tags: valueclick lucidmedia advertising contextual analysis. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

HP Quality Center is a requirements management and testing software product. Tags: irise software virtualization. El Segundo-based iRise , which develops visualization software for enterprise development, said this week that it has shipped a connector which integrates the software with HP Quality Center. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2009

The firm said Canadian firm Evoco, a developer of project management and software for construction and facilities management, is now using the firm's products for visualizing and testing its next generation products. Tags: irise software visualization evoco. Financial impact of the customer win was not disclosed.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2010

The firm said the funding went to development and private beta testing of its service, which is being applied to track and manage performance-based advertising across online, TV, radio, and print. Tags: impact radius venture capital startup advertising performance executive redpoint. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Dave manages angel funds Berkus Technology Ventures, LLC and Kodiak Ventures, L.P. A vision must be solid and flexible enough to pass a number of critical tests if it is to guide a business enterprise to greatness. Here in brief are ten tests for a successful vision. Ten tests for a successful vision. Continued).

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2009

Row 44 had earlier obtained an interim license from the FCC to test its systems, which the firm has so far deployed in tests for Alaska Airlines and Southwest Airlines. Row 44 is venture backed by PAR Capital Management. Tags: row44 wireless wifi license internet aerospace airplane airline aircraft. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 7, 2010

But a small excursion caught early and corrected saves massive corrective resources later. Take for example the manufacturing company with a small quality problem in one component, resulting in a test failure rate above the norm. The same careful management applies to virtually every person and process in the organization.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Dave manages angel funds Berkus Technology Ventures, LLC and Kodiak Ventures, L.P. A vision must be solid and flexible enough to pass a number of critical tests if it is to guide a business enterprise to greatness. Here in brief are ten tests for a successful vision. Ten tests for a successful vision. Continued).

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High Tech Guide Blogging Angel 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Southwest Airlines has begun testing its Wi-fi service, the firm said today, tapping Westlake Village-based Row 44 for equipment. The firm said that it will be testing the technology over the next few months, as it looks to allow its customers to tap into Internet access for free during the trial. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 3, 2010

Back when I was developing early systems for the hotel industry, with the full cooperation of the owner and managers of a hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I would fly in from Los Angeles on Friday evenings, install new releases that night and make fixes on the fly in a real 24 hour environment. Tags: Finding your ideal niche Growth!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Knewton – “Online adaptive test prep and virtual classroom platform&# - I love the innovation that is coming from the test prep industry. Studying for the SAT, LSAT, GMAT, TOEFL, MCAT and other standardized tests in the US is a massive market that has been dominated for years by Kaplan and Princeton Review.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

This biotech company developed Xplore-PATHO as a service to test samples for the presence of pathogens – everything from bacteria and DNA virus to parasites and fungus – in a single test. Milo Life is making it more convenient for people to complete lab tests at home.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 30, 2011

Having that observation skill, at least from a management level, has been helpful in doing multiple startups." You can manage teams. The real pain point with Android is fragmentation and testing. TestFlight helps you manage the beta testing process. (2) In the development world, it is always about patterns.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Broadly speaking this last trend has been healthy as it has brought an increase focus on launching products that you can test with the market and on capital efficiency. I should be able to test these assumptions against comparable companies. Great product managers who are not great business people still often fail.

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Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

Most technology startups seem to be founded by three types of people: product managers, engineers or biz dev types (MBAs and the like). These people take directions well from a sales manager on how to approach sales campaigns. I think I made a pretty good CEO but I know I would be lousy sales manager. LOVING Balsamiq!

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Startup Sales Framework Organization 350

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

As your organization grows and you hire senior staff where you are no longer managing every employee directly the issue of how to manage people that are not your “direct&# reports arises. As a content management system we had lots of write activities and went with Postgres. Senior management feels undermined.

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Startup CTO Coach Technical Review CTO Hire 308

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

In each sales situation your goal as the leadership of the company is listening to feedback, calculating the customer ROI, testing what prices people are willing to pay, learning where budgets will come from, etc. I’m not (and never will be) a good process manager because I’m not process driven myself.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Once a company has raised $2-3 million dollars I often advise them to get an office manager. I will quote one portfolio company CEO who said about his office manager, “Mark, this is the most important hire we made last year. Tags: Startup Advice. I have freed up so much of my time to focus on the important stuff.&#.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Stuart is a Managing Director at Momentum Venture Partners , and former CEO of Insider Pages. Momentum Ventures is a firm which has been very active providing management expertise in Southern California, helping promising technology firms. We built a platform to manage multiple verticals, the first around nutrition and weight loss.

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Social Network Tool Southern California Networking 259

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We have around 150 people on the site testing it out, and we're just preparing to send out more beta invites now. The management team had committed to bringing in excellent people, who could thrive in extreme turmoil, and move really quickly. So back to the company--is the product live yet? Thanks, and good luck! READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Entrepreneur Software Review Yammer 243

socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2010

Tags: vehicle auto energy electric acquisition merger tesla.

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Southern California Rustic Canyon Marketing San Diego 176

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

We had more than 700 resumes, short-listed 65, interviewed 16 in one-hour meetings had 6 full-day interviews including a presentation by the candidate on a selected market opportunity and we did 3 finalist dinners to test cultural fit. Ask if you could shadow different functions like marketing, finance or product management.

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Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

You learn everything important about getting your business started, including topics like how to raise capital, manage your resources and use your intellectual property. I should also mention that there is a test that you need to pass to be admitted  and it's not easy. We're looking for the best. READ MORE>>.

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Mentor Class Entertainment Technical Review 185

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2010

They don’t want to ever wake up and hear their users saying their moving on another platform where they can make more money as Lady Gaga’s manager does here about MySpace. Tags: Start-up Advice. This is good for Twitter as well. Establish clear guidelines on advertising quality scores.

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Advertising Startup Platform News 276

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This person was almost certainly graduated from a top 20 university and probably with excellent grades & test scores. Well, aside from it showing discipline and intelligence – we always get flooded with emails when we recruit and when you have to manage volume you need to go for obvious filters. We manage nearly $1 billion.

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Venture Capital Technical Review GRP Partners Email 290

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

By providing insight into the genetics of disease, as well as access to relevant testing, services, and support, AccessDNA helps people better understand how genetics can impact their healthcare and lifestyle decisions. Tags: SoCal Stuff. AwesomeBox : AwesomeBox is currently in stealth mode so I’ll respect that.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

We're taking content from about 200 different publishers of financial content, and tagging that content based on companies that are discussed in that article, and post that to a company wall. We wanted to tackle that problem, by using a social network. In that network, we bring in content from all over the web.

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Social Network Startup Networking Content 239

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

The real test of sales and the topic of my post is “why buy now.” Great sales companies manage this very effectively and have sales prospects put into 3 buckets: those ready to buy this quarter (A), those ready to buy soon (B) and those not likely to buy in the next 12 months but still interested (C). Tags: Start-up Advice.

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Sales Startup Platform Tips 319

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

com, and managing director at Tickets.com. There is no single source for internship listings or site like ours, where you can get tools for resume preparation, or internship predictors or assessment tests, or even look at a series of videos on how to dress by industry, how to interview, or where you can learn interview techniques.

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Startup Content Sites CTO Coach 223

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Offers virality optimization tools and A/B testing inside Facebook. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. If you’re an entrepreneur make sure you watch the video for that segment alone. It’s awesome.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. How did you manage the growth you have, without outside funding? Test prep, and private tutoring, is literally one-to-one. The fact is, the test prep business is a nice first business. Isn't the business pretty labor intensive?

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Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2010

It meant that the management teams hadn’t figured out a product / market fit for their own businesses. – than it is to tweak features, A/B test products, crank out the next release, improve marketing copy, fly across the country to get a biz dev deal done or just pound the streets selling product.

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Technical Review Startup Press Pricing 276

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Tested platform on San Francisco’s Live 105; then scaled out for national syndication with positive audience uplift. Grockit – Provides online adaptive test prep services and community. I don’t like going against Google Docs or against 37Signals for project management. Tags: Start-up Advice. File sharing?

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

OK, this will be a test of whether using real curse words in your title or post gets all of your stuff blocked by spam filters or from appearing on HackerNews or the like. Manager Bob: “Our associates will not repond positively to further cuts in their benefits. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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Startup Framework Slides Coach 378

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2010

We even have brands using us to test new products coming out in the future, to see if they will resonate with their customer base. We've been accelerating our marketing, and we also have a fantastic test going in the social media world. How did you manage to scale and get to profitability so quickly? READ MORE>>.

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